Nerd Alert! Ice On Mars

Its official! There is ice on Mars!


Last week, the Mars Phoenix Lander's Twitter feed contained the following juicy nugget:

"Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!"

Who knew that robots had Twitter accounts?

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It's the Hubble Space Telescope! Launched into orbit on this day back in 1990. To celebrate, NASA has released a whole slew of photos taken by Hubble. Like the following photo of Arp 272.


Arp 272 is a collision between two spiral galaxies, NGC 6050 and IC 1179, that are linked by their swirling arms. They are part of the Hercules Galaxy Cluster, which itself is part of one of the largest known structures in the universe: the so-called Great Wall. Arp 272 is located some 450 million light-years away from Earth.