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This is just sweet. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped a picture of Victoria Crater and has captured the Mars rover Opportunity.
(HT to Bad Astronomy Blog)
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Thanks John, too cool.
Clicking on your photo link takes you to their site. Clicking on that image gets a page with two enlarged images. Scrolling down to the second image shows enough detail to make out the shadow of the camera mast.
Smile.
Posts like this are why I love your blog. I can't even remember how I came by it way back when, but it's managed to stay in the list the whole time. Posting this one to my "space" tag on del.icio.us, great stuff.
>Posts like this are why I love your blog. I can't even remember how I came by it way back when, but it's managed to stay in the list the whole time.
*blush*
A great post, John. Thanks.