Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Bigger Things

While we go through the mundane task of voting today let's take a moment to contemplate THE BIGGER PICTURE with a couple of photos courtesy of Astronomy Picture of the Day.

First up is a SELFIE taken by the Rosetta spacecraft, currently about 300 million miles from earth and 10 miles from Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko on which it will attempt to land on November 12.  The dual comet can be seen at the center top of the picture along with its surrounding gaseous cloud.
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