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The Space subsite covers all sorts of stories from stargazing to planetary exploration, and from explainers on geological phenomena to marvelling at pretty places. Here stories f
stanley cup rom April that you may have missed. Not everything gets shared to the io9 main page. Here the April stories exclusive to the Space Subsite: Stargazing at Dark Sky Parks in Arizona, Texas, and Utah. Weather phenomena: pre-El Ni帽o slosh in the Pacific, weird vocabulary, evaporation of a thin rainbow film, atmospheric layers. Landforms: not-just-volcanic islands, Landsat collection, and Hawaiian volc
stanley cup anoes starting forest fires. Space Exploration: how Curiosity gets those beautiful selfies, proposed trajectory for ISEE if the hack succeeds, Rosetta original rocket exploded, negative impact of success on NASA budget, and the Kerbal Space Program asteroid-module. Earth: surreal jellyfish-balloons launched in Antarctica, green/white census map for France, portrait of the Earth from the Sun, and using infrared photography to monitor vegetation stress. Supernova: usin
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