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Maps Mania: 14 Billion Miles from Earth
Maps Mania: 14 Billion Miles from Earth : Yesterday Voyager 1 passed a distance of 14 billion miles from Earth. Voyager 1 was launched into space on September 5, 1977. Its missio...
Rage - Bob Woodward
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53949849-rage" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Rage" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1598180112l/53949849._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53949849-rage">Rage</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15441.Bob_Woodward">Bob Woodward</a><br/> My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3549845711">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br /> A well-documented book that provides insight into the President that other books do not provide. I attribute this to two facets one does not find in other Trump books: Presidential access and access to primary sources. In most instances, there are direct words from the sources. Many of us have a firm belief the President is not up to the job o...
Voyager: Inside the world's greatest space mission
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170818-voyager-inside-the-worlds-greatest-space-mission
How Neptune’s Triton Destroyed Nearly All Of Its Moons
How Neptune’s Triton Destroyed Nearly All Of Its Moons The largest moon around our last planet didn’t originate with Neptune. https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-neptunes-triton-destroyed-nearly-all-of-its-moons-b0b4467b052f
Neptune & Triton – August 31, 1989.
Image-processor extraordinaire Kevin Gill has reached back in time to give us a new image of Neptune and its moon Triton. When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Neptune and Triton in August 1989, its cameras were very busy. Kevin has taken separate color-filtered images from that visit and calibrated and combined them to give us a new, almost haunting look at the planet and its largest moon. #Astronomy https://www.universetoday.com/147636/neptune-triton-august-31-1989/
The Biggest Crater Known Was From an Asteroid That Made the Dinosaur Killer Look Like a Pebble
B illions of years ago, Jupiter's planet-sized moon Ganymede got a helluva whack : Looking over data from probes that have visited the moon, scientists estimate it got hit by an object a staggering 300 kilometers wide. #Astronomy https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-biggest-crater-known-was-from-an-asteroid-that-made-the-dinosaur-killer-look-like-a
Fallen Boulder at the Grand Canyon Reveals Prehistoric Reptile Footprints
Fallen Boulder at the Grand Canyon Reveals Prehistoric Reptile Footprints 313 million years ago, two reptilian creatures crept over this boulder’s surface #Archaeology https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fallen-boulder-grand-canyon-reveals-ancient-footprints-180975646/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200825-daily-responsive&spMailingID=43294861&spUserID=MTA4NDA3NTIyMDI4MAS2&spJobID=1822053449&spReportId=MTgyMjA1MzQ0OQS2
The Little-Known Role of Slavery in Viking Society
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/little-known-role-slavery-viking-society-180975597/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200825-daily-responsive&spMailingID=43294861&spUserID=MTA4NDA3NTIyMDI4MAS2&spJobID=1822053449&spReportId=MTgyMjA1MzQ0OQS2