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[StephanieVanbryce]

Breaking News: Federal District Court Denies Preclearance of Texas Redistricting Plans [Now updated with analysis]

by Rick Hasen August 28, 2012 12:04 pm

You can read the opinion here (there was a partial dissent by Judge Griffith, who wrote most of the majority opinion as well). From the introduction:

There's much more, it's all lawyer talk, mostly...;)
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39233

it seems it will have no effect on our upcoming elections . .but not sure ...

[F6]

Curiosity Rover First Colour 360 Panorama

Original Photo:

NASA JPL- Caltech [(larger available) via http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4572 ]

Interactive panorama conversion: Hans Nyberg - Panoramas.dk [ http://www.panoramas.dk/about-nyberg.html ]. Note that more sky has been added artificially by me in this interactive version.

This 360-degree panorama was released Aug 27 2012.

It includes the highest part of Mount Sharp which is approximately 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the rover.

The colors on this panorama are enchanced to give the same colors as it would have under lights on earth.

copyright @ Hans Nyberg

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/curiosity-first-color-360.html [open to view/rotate through, and zoom in and out anywhere within, the entire interactive 360-degree panorama, including in full-screen]


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Mars weather: Curiosity rover measures out-of-this-world temperature swings

Mars’ ground and air temperatures Aug. 16-17, as observed by NASA’s Curiosity rover
08/22/2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/mars-weather-curiosity-rover-measures-out-of-this-world-temperature-swings/2012/08/22/c51540b2-ec03-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_blog.html [with comments]