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Heavy Jumping Spider Hyllus sp. Singapore, March 2013 No spider gallery would be complete without the most adorable of the bunch: the jumping spiders. With their large eyes, crazy colors, and fantastic...
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Wide-Jawed Viciria Viciria praemandibularis Singapore, April 2013 Om nom nom. Oops, that's one of my eggs, says this striped jumping spider with different colored eyes. "Oddly, one egg is caught...
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Ant Mimic Jumping Spider Myrmarachne plataleoides Singapore, July 2013 Myrmarachne is a great word. It aptly describes what this spider is doing: making itself look like a red weaver ant. In fact, the...
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Two-Tailed Spider Hersilia sp. Nikoi Island, Indonesia, June 2013 There's a spider in this picture, we promise. Look closely. You might wish you hadn't. The two-tailed spider -- sometimes called the...
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Saturn Moon Alignment The Saturn moons Mimas and Pandora remind us of how different they are when they appear together, as in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Pandora's small size means...
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SPACEX Rocket: Falcon 9 Capsule: Dragon CEO Elon Musk is getting $1.6 billion for 12 deliveries (it works out to $36,000 per pound) to be completed by 2016. And so far, so good: The first unmanned...
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ORBITAL SCIENCES Rocket: AntaresCapsule: Cygnus Orbital produces the Toyota Tacoma of the thermosphere—solid, reliable transport. The first-stage engines are stockpiled Soviet NK-33s from the early...
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We have a space station in permanent orbit ... but not a lot of rockets that can get there. On the assumption that the free market can blast us to the ISS on the cheap, NASA has awarded resupply...
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First High-Res Image Now that's more like it. No more of these blurry shots through the dust cover. After less than a week on Mars, Curiosity began sending back the high-resolution images we all love...
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High-Res Selfie Curiosity has a long arm. At the end of that arm is a camera and, by carefully positioning that camera, the rover was able to snap 55 individual shots of its body. Stitched together,...
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