The mystery of the big black hole on Mars.

"There is absolutely nothing visible inside that hole. It's black black black black black. HiRISE is a very sensitive instrument, and Mars' dusty atmosphere scatters quite a bit of light around, so there is certainly light entering that cave hole and bouncing around the interior, but none comes out."

This totally reminds me of the 'moholes' mentioned in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy! How cool it would be to send explorers to these locations some day.



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Joost invitation project (a digg community effort)

If you need an invitation, post a new comment (not a reply) with your email. If you have a Joost invitation token, send it to that email and post a reply to that comment so none are wasted. If you get invited, do the right thing and invite others. Do it for karma and the warm fuzzy feeling inspired by the word: community



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No More Audioblogging

OK, I've been meaning to post this for several weeks. Blogger no longer supports the Audioblog functionality (i.e., use a telephone to call in and create audio posts). So, now I need to figure out what to do with this blog, which merely supplemented my main blog. Gah!