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  1. ...followed by pumpkin & lemon meringue pies, spritz & snickerdoodles, with 12 members of immediate & extended family! Happy Thanksgiving!
  2. On my menu: roast turkey & sweet potatoes; cranberry chutney; chestnut stuffing & giblet gravy; steamed broccoli; green bean casserole...
  3. Um...yum? RT @NASA: T'giving menu for shuttle crew: smoked&irradiated turkey, candied yams, freeze-dried cornbread stuffing and green beans.
  4. RT @doug_ellison: I've made a whole bunch of movies of Mars Express VMC 'Webcam' observations - http://is.gd/53J8G
  5. RT @lukedones: American tweeps: Happy Thanksgiving! Canadians: Sorry I'm 6 weeks late! World: Please carry on.
  6. Everyone check heavens-above.com to see if you can show your family ISS + Shuttle tonight or tomorrow. If not, at least point out Jupiter!
  7. RT @marsroverdriver: Plan today: back on course! Full (~ 5m commanded, ~ 1cm expected) drive. Downlink Sat, analysis day Mon. #FreeSpirit
  8. RT @MESSENGER2011: completed final deep-space maneuver today, making velocity change to put me on course to orbit Mercury in Mar 2011
  9. RT @marssciencegrad: We are a 'Go' for driving on Spirit today... planning 3 sols for over the Thanksgiving holiday!
  10. http://twitpic.com/qvm4r - Best result so far with Mars Express VMC color tweaking, involves channel mixing
  11. To play with VMC images: http://bit.ly/oK6qM for data, http://bit.ly/8ad3lA for script that converts RAW images to PNG format
  12. @doug_ellison I'm achieving decent results w/ channel mixing in GIMP, e.g. red = red - 50% blue - 20% green, preserve luminosity.
  13. @doug_ellison I was using ver 2 of ugordan's. Is there a better one out there? Saturation's real low with VMC2RGB output.
  14. .@BlkSwrd VMC is engineering camera on ESA's Mars Express, gets color global shots of Mars at low res with Bayer color filter.
  15. this morning I'm futzing around with Mars Express VMC images, trying to develop a reliable way to wring proper Mars color out of them.
  16. @GovertTweets When will you be in Pasadena? Kids make my schedule a challenge but I'd love to attempt to meet up.
  17. RT @cosmos4u: MRO team plans to uplink protective files next week as a step toward resuming the orbiter's activities: http://is.gd/52YBf
  18. See the Cassini team's version of that awesome 81-hour Saturn aurora movie: http://tinyurl.com/ycrt3mu
  19. Hey! My wide-screen Enceladus plumes image is Astronomy Picture of the Day today! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
  20. @alicesastroinfo Opportunity can't measure wind speed except indirectly by taking cloud movies, and those are pretty high altitude. Why?