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Title: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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NASA
URL Source: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050315.html
Published: Mar 15, 2005
Author: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (U
Post Date: 2005-03-15 05:35:54 by 2Trievers
Keywords: Astronomy, Picture
Views: 55
Comments: 5
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 March 15 Explanation: Vertical cliffs of nearly two kilometers occur near the North Pole of Mars. Also visible in the above image of the Martian North Polar Cap are red areas of rock and sand, white areas of ice, and dark areas of unknown composition but hypothesized to be volcanic ash. The cliffs are thought to border volcanic caldera. Although the sheer drop of the Martian cliffs is extreme, the drop is not as deep as other areas in our Solar System, including the 3.4-kilometer depth of Colca Canyon on Earth and the 20 kilometer depth of Verona Rupes on Uranus' moon Miranda. The above image, digitally reconstructed into a perspective view, was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board the ESA's robotic Mars Express spacecraft currently orbiting Mars. Astronomy Picture of the Day
Credit: G. Neukum (FU Berlin) et al., Mars Express, DLR,
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#1. To: 2Trievers (#0)
California Red is still my fav:)
LOL ... how many more days are left in the year? Surely you can be swayed ...
Too many. Just take them one day at a time. This one will be bad enough. Woke up with the creepy, crawly, crud that's been going around work. I had hoped I wouldn't get it. Call centers are like day care. One sick person infects the whole damn place.
Lots of sick people ... be glad you don't work in a hospital. My neighbors both do, and for the last month have had nothing but one thing after a thother ... of course my classroom is like a petrie dish! Hope you feel better!
Yep, lots of sick people, especially in this area. Some sort of strain of flu has been going around that the most recent flu shot did not cover. The amount of people getting sick even made front page of the paper here. I suppose it was just a matter of time. *sigh*
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