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Stand on Mars, Look Around | | | |
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| | |  View larger. | Here's a new selfie of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Notice the umber skies, darkened by a recent global dust storm. See the dust on the rover? Image via NASA. | | | Good morning!
Stand on Mars, look around | | Mars comes closest to the sun this Sunday, September 16, and, as often happens when Mars is near its perihelion, a global dust storm has been raging for months on the red planet. Now the dust storm has abated, and NASA has released a great new 360-degree panorama on Mars, shown in this interactive video. | | | How to stay safe in a hurricane | | Hurricane Florence is on track to hit the U.S. East Coast as a major storm later this week. Here are tips, if a hurricane is heading your way. The chart below - from the National Hurricane Center - shows Florence's predicted track, as of 5 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (09:00 UTC) Monday. Read more.  Image via National Hurricane Center | | | | | | | | | |
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|  | | Tonight … Will you catch the young moon? | | Look west after sunset Monday evening for the young moon. It'll be very near the sunset point. Whether or not you see it, notice Venus and Jupiter - both very bright - and close in the west after sunset. The moon will sweep past these planets this week. Read more. | | | | | |
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 | | Beach mirrors sky over Lincolnshire, U.K. | When a thin film of water covered this beach, it looked as if people (and dogs) could walk in the sky. John Bennett captured his son and their dog, Foxy. Read more. | | |
