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It was announced yesterday that the little rover that could, Opportunity, finally reached Endeavour crater. The actual event apparently took place the day before when, according to the update that was just posted, a drive of 62 meters took the resilient rover to the rim of the giant crater which it had been driving towards […]

Yesterday, at 16:25 GMT, Juno was successfully launched on its five-year journey to Jupiter. The launch, originally scheduled for 15:34 GMT, was delayed by an anomaly noticed during the final programmed launch timer hold. After several extensions of the hold, what was originally feared to be a helium leak in the rocket’s Centaur upper stage […]

Glancing through a post which I wrote nearly four years ago and still ask anyone new to read when they seem to start giving me that particular talk, reading the full lyrics of My Dying Bride‘s The Light at the End of the World and listening to Edenbridge‘s Forever Shine On… And I guess even […]