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		<title>Another Martian Avalanche</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured another great image of an avalanche on Mars:

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The images shows a cloud of dust caused by frozen carbon dioxide breaking loose from the top of a large cliff (lower-left corner of the image) and carrying additional debris from the cliff face with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suchland.com/craig/?p=888</link>
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		<title>Spirit Digs Up Soft Soil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the wheels of NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit dug into a patch of ground on its way to getting stuck, it exposed the color variations shown in this false color image taken on sol 1892:

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University
For a sense of scale, the two rocks  near the upper right corner of this view [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suchland.com/craig/?p=873</link>
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		<title>Free Spirit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover website has a new Free Spirit page tracking the efforts to get Spirit &#8220;unstuck&#8221; from its sand trap.
Engineers are mixing diatomaceous Earth and clay in the on-earth rover testbed to attempt to recreate conditions similar to the ones in which Spirit has gotten stuck on Mars so that a sequence of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suchland.com/craig/?p=848</link>
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		<title>Opportunity&#8217;s Shadow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This self-portrait of Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was taken on sol 180 in July 2004 as the rover began it&#8217;s descent into Endurance Crater:
Image credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA
Endurance seems so long ago, and Opportunity has continued on to Victoria Crater and ultimately will attempt to reach Endeaver Crater after a two year, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suchland.com/craig/?p=843</link>
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		<title>A Passion for Mars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son Brian sent a copy of &#8220;A Passion for Mars&#8221; by Andrew Chaikin  as a Father&#8217;s Day gift. It covers everything from the early Mariner missions to Spirit and Opportunity and beyond.
I really enjoy Chaikin&#8217;s writing, and especially liked &#8220;A Man on the Moon&#8220;, his earlier book on the Apollo program that served [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suchland.com/craig/?p=829</link>
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		<title>Sunset on Another World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another of my favorites &#8211; a sunset on Mars as captured by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on May 19th, 2005:
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Texas A&#038;M/Cornell

If you click on the image to see a larger version, you can clearly see the sun sinking behind the rim of Gusev crater in the distance.
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		<link>http://www.suchland.com/craig/?p=823</link>
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		<title>Io&#8217;s Tvashtar Volcano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To get things going again, I thought I&#8217;d start posting some of my favorite space images &#8211; and what could be better than this animated sequence of 5 images of the plume of Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter&#8217;s moon Io:
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
This sequence of images was captured by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suchland.com/craig/?p=733</link>
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		<title>Back after a long hiatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whew! That&#8217;s the longest I&#8217;ve been away since this site was established more than 5 years ago. Posting should once again be much more frequent.
One of the reasons I&#8217;ve been away was that I got really tired of dealing with comment spam, but I&#8217;ve finally gotten around to upgrading to the most recent version of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suchland.com/craig/?p=727</link>
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		<title>Graph Paper PDF Files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ever need graph paper, you can find a wide variety of downloadable/printable graph paper in PDF format over at incompetech.com (you can even generate custom layouts). You&#8217;ll also find montly and yearly calendars.
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		<link>http://www.suchland.com/craig/?p=726</link>
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		<title>Custom Printed M&amp;M&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I wrote about the fact that you could order customized M&#038;M&#8217;s by selecting from 21 different colors to produce your own blend. Well, now you can add custom printing as well, with two lines of up to 8 characters each, and you can include two separate messages if you like.
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		<link>http://www.suchland.com/craig/?p=725</link>
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