Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Monday, January 24, 2011
Orbital Spud
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the southern end of Phobos, one of the hurtling moons of Mars. It was recently imaged by the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft as part of the preparations for the long-planned Phobos-Grunt mission.
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