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• NASA’s Messenger finds organic compounds on Mercury

  In Breaking News, Space

  

  After a week of speculation about what exactly NASA’s Curiosity might have found on Mars, in a blockbuster turn of events today NASA announced that their Messenger probe has discovered organic matter on Mercury of all places! Mercury, being the closest planet to the sun, and thereby the least likely to have had any life, ever, because mostly of the fact that daytime temperatures reach 420°C, enough to prepare a perfectly good French Roast in [...]

   

• Mars rover Curiosity takes self-portrait from Mars. No duck-face.

  In Robots, Space, Technology

  

  We’ve all seen the self-portraits snapped (mostly) by teenage girls, of themselves either taken by holding the camera at arms length, or my personal favorite, in front of a mirror showing the camera itself, which is usually a smartphone, and sporting duck-lips. However seeing Mars robotic probe Curiosity do the same did take me a bit by surprise. Essentially, at first I was all like, “Why would NASA spend valuable time by taking photos of [...]