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McMurdo Panorama from Mars

This was Spirit's view on Martian-day 1,000 of its 90-Martian-day mission. The robotic Spirit rover has stayed alive so long on Mars that it needed a place to wait out the cold and dim Martian winter. Earth scientists selected Low Ridge…

Space.com News (Top 5 items):

1. Orbiter to Look for Lost-To-Mars Probes A super-powerful camera orbiting Mars may help discover the fate of long-lost spacecraft that never phoned home after reaching the red planet.

2. Hubble Saved: NASA Approves Shuttle Flight to Service Space Telescope NASA announced Tuesday that it will go ahead with one final space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade Hubble after months of debate over the risks of such an endeavor.

Maximum Distance from the Sun

• Mercury()
  43.4 million miles

  Venus()
  68 million miles

• Earth()
  94.5 million miles

  Mars()
  155 million miles

• Jupiter()
  508 million miles

  Saturn ()
  938 million miles

• Uranus()
  1.87 billion miles

  Neptune()
  2.82 billion miles