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by Starchild
Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:52 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Opportunity's Decade on Mars (2014 Jan 25)
Replies: 74
Views: 5969

Re: APOD: Opportunity's Decade on Mars (2014 Jan 25)

Seems to me that this is something that the smart people at NASA could have foreseen (they knew the planet was covered in fine reddish dust long before any of these 'explorers' landed). A little Swiffer-type mechanism with soft brush used regularly shouldn't have been that hard to make, considering ...
by Starchild
Sun Jan 12, 2014 6:46 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Scale of the Universe: Interactive (2014 Jan 12)
Replies: 49
Views: 18629

Re: APOD: The Scale of the Universe: Interactive (2014 Jan 1

I'm just surprised we're still around to be able to discuss this - relatively speaking we're not much bigger than a quark, compared to the (known) universe! Amazing little video!!! (I looked at everything, took me about an hour or so).
by Starchild
Sat Apr 16, 2011 6:44 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Tadpoles of IC 410 (2011 Apr 16)
Replies: 9
Views: 1660

Re: APOD: The Tadpoles of IC 410 (2011 Apr 16)

In looking at the picture, I noticed that each of these elongated "tadpole" clouds seemed to have done a 90 degree shift upward (left-to-right, from the direction of the picture) at approximately the same time, almost as if a very strong wind had blown them off course. There also seems to ...