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A particularly detailed picture of Soyuz TMA-7, from the station! - Raoul - 12/29/2006 9:56:29 PM

Gullies from MRO (1,4 MB) and many other pictures - Raoul - 11/24/2006 6:30:50 PM
- Anybody got a high-def TV? - Robert Clark - 11/26/2006 3:20:35 PM
  - re: Anybody got a high-def TV? - nick hoffman - 11/27/2006 1:49:11 AM
    - re: Anybody got a high-def TV? - Doug Ellison - 11/27/2006 8:02:52 AM
      - re: Anybody got a high-def TV? - Robert Clark - 11/27/2006 5:26:29 PM
        
        Resolution of the human eye - nick hoffman - 11/28/2006 3:35:23 AM
        
        Then again there's supernormal vision. - Robert Clark - 12/2/2006 2:44:10 PM
        
        Super resolution imaging - Doug Ellison - 12/2/2006 3:14:08 PM
        
        No, this is a completely different and exciting scientific development. - Robert Clark - 12/2/2006 3:41:42 PM
        
        what benefit for 'mars imaging analysis'? (n/t) - Doug Ellison - 12/2/2006 7:15:34 PM
        
        I can't prove it will help but ... - Robert Clark - 12/2/2006 10:00:58 PM
        
        re: I can't prove it will help but ... - Doug Ellison - 12/2/2006 11:30:23 PM
        
        re: I can't prove it will help but ... - Robert Clark - 12/2/2006 11:55:43 PM
        
        crossed wires - Doug Ellison - 12/3/2006 2:32:21 AM
        
        size of the pixel...AND..the distance to the display (n/t) - Doug Ellison - 11/27/2006 7:54:30 PM
- The full scale jpeg image is 42.5 MB. - Robert Clark - 11/26/2006 3:02:01 PM
  - When the JPG is just too big.... - Doug Ellison - 11/27/2006 8:54:31 AM
- Truly amazing - Donald - 11/25/2006 9:16:00 PM
- re: Gullies from MRO - just what I was waiting for - nick hoffman - 11/24/2006 11:31:25 PM
  - What, no craters? - Scott Evil - 11/27/2006 7:09:10 PM
    - Note to self... follow he links before commenting on a single cropped picture! - Scott Evil - 11/27/2006 7:15:30 PM
  - I suspected as much - Robert - 11/25/2006 7:17:45 PM
  - Why couldn't it be snow avalanches, ala Christensen? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 11/25/2006 1:09:21 PM
    - Because the Snow on Mars is CO2, not H2O - nick hoffman - 11/26/2006 4:45:56 AM
      - Christensen specifically used this gully system as evidence for his theory - Robert Clark - 11/26/2006 2:54:58 PM
        
        Old ideas and new images - nick hoffman - 11/26/2006 3:23:45 PM
        
        hydrocarbons on Mars - E.P. - 11/26/2006 7:08:14 PM
        
        BTW, radiation splits hydrocarbons on the surface of Mars (n/t) - E.P. - 11/26/2006 7:12:15 PM
        
        Did Methane outgas? - E.P. - 11/26/2006 7:17:20 PM
        
        CRISM - Doug Ellison - 11/26/2006 6:10:07 PM
        
        re: CRISM - Robert Clark - 12/2/2006 11:06:03 PM
        
        CRISM imaging of gullies. - Robert Clark - 12/24/2006 7:48:13 PM
        
        re: CRISM imaging of gullies. - Robert Clark - 12/29/2006 7:49:42 PM
        
        Fascinating - nick hoffman - 12/28/2006 4:27:08 AM
        
        Might provide an automated way to seach for new gullies. - Robert Clark - 12/27/2006 3:04:26 PM
        
        re: Old ideas and new images - lance - 11/26/2006 3:33:43 PM

The Moon and Andromeda together with Starry Night...!!! - Raoul - 12/29/2006 6:40:45 PM
- The other vantage to get the Moon and Andromeda in the same shot... - alcaray - 12/29/2006 7:42:33 PM

Moondust... - Raoul - 12/29/2006 6:43:05 AM

For observers, relative sizes of the Moon and Andromeda galaxy - Raoul - 12/28/2006 6:33:35 AM
- That is one helluva picture. I'm going to try to make it background. - Bowser - 12/28/2006 7:01:44 AM
  - re: It's an impossible image as they won't cross! (n/t) - Raoul - 12/28/2006 7:30:48 PM
    - Depends on your vantage point. - alcaray - 12/28/2006 11:50:27 PM
      - Sigh. I wondered about that. - Bowser - 12/29/2006 6:27:35 AM
  - Superb! (n/t) - Hank - 12/28/2006 2:50:47 PM
    - North is at the bottom, East is to your right - Hank - 12/28/2006 6:58:45 PM
  - Right Click... - nick hoffman - 12/28/2006 8:29:08 AM
  - back click it- it one options (n/t) - gb - 12/28/2006 8:04:31 AM

Space being a visual experience, what is your 2006 space image? (4.2 MB) - Raoul - 12/28/2006 7:43:39 PM

Corot launched!! - Raoul - 12/27/2006 5:12:41 PM
- Always fun to add new exo-planets. Now for some that rock! (n/t) - Sawyer - 12/28/2006 3:19:50 PM

Scientists Search for Distant Life in the Moonlight - LJK - 12/21/2006 2:34:19 PM
- Microbe found in California mine could be smallest life form yet - LJK - 12/27/2006 5:49:00 PM
  - Better Link, LJK - nick hoffman - 12/28/2006 8:27:08 AM

40th anniversary of ATS-1 and its full view of Earth - LJK - 12/28/2006 6:18:04 AM

Bart Gordon: Moon Base? Great Idea. Now Show Me The Money - Jeff F - 12/25/2006 2:55:20 PM
- re: Bart Gordon: Moon Base? (and a message deleted) - Raoul moderating - 12/25/2006 6:08:59 PM
  - Moonbase: In the Dark On Lunar Ice - LJK - 12/26/2006 6:35:02 PM
    - re: Hiatus - Raoul - 12/26/2006 10:24:51 PM
      - Here's a reason to explore the Moon... - LJK - 12/28/2006 5:10:27 AM

I have a question about TDRS coverage of the ISS and Shuttle flights. - DWC - 12/26/2006 10:21:31 PM
- re: TDRS - Raoul - 12/27/2006 6:48:42 AM
  - re: TDRS - DWC - 12/27/2006 4:56:38 PM
    - re: why did they do that? - Peter Bruener - 12/27/2006 8:47:29 PM
    - Radiation zone plays a role, too? - LJK - 12/27/2006 5:10:09 PM

A Christmas Gift That Means The World To Me - Jeff F - 12/26/2006 10:17:58 PM
- How the heck... - LJK - 12/27/2006 4:56:59 PM
  - re: How the heck... - Jeff F - 12/27/2006 5:56:42 PM
- re: A contribution....:-) - Raoul - 12/26/2006 10:28:49 PM

Design an asteroid tag, win $50,000 - LJK - 12/21/2006 3:58:01 PM
- Could be a Zone project - Robert - 12/21/2006 7:40:13 PM
  - Good start Robert! - Scott Evil - 12/27/2006 5:53:11 PM
- Cover it with spent CD ROM Disks. - Scott Evil - 12/21/2006 6:47:08 PM

Large reflector antenna - SUZ - 12/26/2006 4:00:32 PM
- Gee whiz! - alcaray - 12/26/2006 11:09:46 PM
  - Only from the Land of Origami! - Bowser - 12/27/2006 3:51:59 AM
    - Completion of the Critical Phase of the Engineering Test Satellite VIII "KIKU No. 8" - LJK - 12/27/2006 4:52:09 AM

Are there TV crews at White Sands, NM..Just in case? - Raoul - 12/22/2006 5:26:58 PM
- A serve of humble pie - nick hoffman - 12/24/2006 7:39:01 AM
  - You know, visual inspection is a no-brainer. - alcaray - 12/26/2006 11:46:30 PM
- Down safe (n/t) - Robert - 12/22/2006 10:34:14 PM
  - re:Not yet night there! just on time for daylight arrival! Super! (n/t) - Raoul - 12/22/2006 10:42:15 PM
    - Just barely - Robert - 12/23/2006 5:30:20 PM
- according to pre-landing press con - NASA TV crews were on the way. (n/t) - Doug Ellison - 12/22/2006 7:32:12 PM
  - De-orbit burn under way...for the KSC..Alea Jacta Est! (n/t) - Raoul - 12/22/2006 9:30:17 PM
    - re: De-orbit burn under way...for the KSC..Alea Jacta Est! - Doug Ellison - 12/22/2006 10:06:46 PM
      - re: re:Arrived; a great day for ESA too! - Raoul - 12/22/2006 10:40:41 PM
- Still up in the air - Robert - 12/22/2006 7:17:18 PM

COROT launched on the 27th - Raoul - 12/25/2006 5:53:25 PM
- No more waiting for Corot, eh? (n/t) - Fox - 12/26/2006 2:25:22 AM

NORAD tracking Santa's current position and velocity! - SDF - 12/24/2006 2:40:22 PM
- Note to Firefox users: you'll have to use IE - Fox - 12/24/2006 5:15:23 PM
- WHOA!!! We've got major activity here.... the radar scopes are going berzerk. They aren't designed to handle this much data! - SDF - 12/24/2006 3:01:50 PM

Small vent at Victoria? - Robert Clark - 12/22/2006 5:14:53 PM
- Ewwwwww! - ER - 12/24/2006 3:27:47 PM
- Perhaps a more prosaic explanation. - Robert Clark - 12/24/2006 1:12:01 PM
- Mole hole? :-) (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 12/23/2006 8:25:32 AM
  - Fire ants - Fox - 12/23/2006 10:20:48 PM
- Something sublimated. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/22/2006 6:51:04 PM
- re: Small vent at Victoria? - Laurie Street - 12/22/2006 5:43:54 PM
  - Small impact crater, ejecting the darker subsurface material? (n/t) - Bowser - 12/24/2006 3:36:09 AM

About "Sputnik" crater in Victoria. - Robert Clark - 12/18/2006 6:04:10 PM
- re: About "Sputnik" crater in Victoria. - Robert Clark - 12/24/2006 1:39:29 PM

Oppy: Cape Verde from Cape St Mary - late morning - Raoul - 12/23/2006 11:02:54 PM
- re: Awesome - thanks Raoul! (n/t) - Vince - 12/24/2006 4:43:56 AM
- That is just amazing. (n/t) - Bowser - 12/24/2006 3:31:23 AM

JimO: "Northrop" versus "Northrup" - Robert - 12/23/2006 5:20:04 PM
- WSMR link - Robert - 12/23/2006 5:21:42 PM
  - re: STS 3's frst! - Raoul - 12/23/2006 9:21:17 PM
    - re: STS 3's frst! - Delbert - 12/23/2006 11:05:00 PM

Matters of Size - phil - 12/22/2006 2:46:18 PM
- Certainly makes you feel small (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 12/23/2006 10:44:43 PM
- thanks, Phil - an eye -opener! - Laurie Street - 12/22/2006 5:05:11 PM
- For a second there.... - SDF - 12/22/2006 3:51:05 PM

Big solar cycle coming? - Laurie Street - 12/22/2006 5:49:19 PM
- Cause and effect - nick hoffman - 12/23/2006 2:52:21 AM
- re:Link - Daystar - 12/22/2006 8:22:52 PM
- re:Observations! - Raoul - 12/22/2006 6:33:59 PM

Hibernation for real, Aging solved - Adam - 12/22/2006 2:44:46 PM
- So basically, - SDF - 12/22/2006 4:28:02 PM
  - Ageing and evolution - Laurie Street - 12/22/2006 5:58:26 PM
    - Well... - Adam - 12/22/2006 8:47:39 PM

"Smoking Gun" on How Multiple-Star Systems Form - LJK - 12/16/2006 5:31:53 AM
- On the early chemical evolution of the Milky Way - LJK - 12/22/2006 8:39:06 PM

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