martian sunset

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a lot of the time i am blown away by science. a lot of the time that happens to be space science. every once in a while i feel compelled to post something about it here. i saw this on the bad astronomy blog and was thoroughly moved. here’s phil plait’s very zen summation of what we’re seeing here: Continue reading “martian sunset”