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A flag over the fire camp was lowered to half staff and U.S. Forest Service members wore black bands in tribute to three firefighters killed when a fire engine plunged down a mountainside.In the latest tragic turn of a fire season that has become one of the deadliest in recen
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On January 1, the Curiosity rover celebrated its 500th sol Martian day on Mars. A few days earlier, it snapped an incredible new photo of 18,000-foot Mt. Sharp. Here is the entire panorama, a mosaic created from several
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