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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
To Uranus?
Top scientists in the European Space Agency are floating
a proposal
to send a spacecraft to orbit Uranus. A good way to spend half a billion dollars? Better than many other ways to spend it, certainly.
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Anonymous said...
Especially if you can get pictures like that!
January 12, 2011 at 8:36 PM
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Especially if you can get pictures like that!
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