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Rumbled!
Look into those phobossy eyes…
Sad Ice and Green Tea: Sounds like a song yet to be composed. Better than a Total Eclipse of the Heart?
H/T to “What’s better than a total Eclipse of the Sun?” / NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Opportunity
h/t to NASA -Rock Target ‘Esperance’ altered by Wet History
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A P/2010 A2-Shaped Haiku
Hat Tip to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suspected asteroid collision picture, and to Antoine Cassar’s Haiku to Mars article.
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Some Strange Things Are Happening To Astronauts Returning To Earth
Insights of Space Travellers; original video by Planetary Collective
Heavy Chirality
Hat Tip to Escher (no, not Escherichia), The Hollies, Wikipedia. Have you seen our “small black marble”?
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Cool Curiosity
The video, made by Cinesaurus, is a parody of “Dumb Ways to Die”, a public safety message from Australia’s Metro Trains Melbourne. ( via Boing-Boing)
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FlyFashioNaut
Hat Tip to André Karwath aka Aka for the Drosophila Melanogaster (Remixed by @Michdevilish) 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0Unported License.
Interesting: Dark Side of the Moon (RadioLab) The Deep-Space Suit (PopSci)
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FlyFashioNaut
Hat Tip to André Karwath aka Aka for the Drosophila Melanogaster (Remixed by @Michdevilish) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0Unported License.
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Such Solitude
Bringing samples home from Mars is not a simple thing:”Bringing Mars Samples to Earth: How NASA will do It” (via Space.com) It is also expensive. Of course, we already have pieces of Mars on earth, brought here by meteorites.
NASA -Image Gallery: See Curiosity‘s travel pictures, currently through to Sol 57.
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