Did anyone catch the May 2013 Libra extended forecast by Susan Miller? The one with this quote: Once you were done with Saturn’s tests, Uranus showed up and will remain until March 2019. Uranus...

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By Maria Padhila I set out in December to plan our vacations for the year ahead. I have relatives on other continents, and seeing them was for a while a possibility, and I was interested in making it...

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Opportunity pops a ‘wheelie’ on Mars on May 15, 2013 (Sol 3308) and then made history by driving further to the mountain ahead on the next day, May 16 (Sol 3309), to establish a new American distance driving record for a vehicle on another world. This navcam mosaic shows the view forward to Opportunity’s future destinations of Solander Point and Cape Tribulation along the lengthy rim of huge Endeavour crater spanning 14 miles (22 km) in diameter. See below our complete map of the 9 Year Journey of Opportunity on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Ken Kremer (kenkremer.com)/Marco Di Lorenzo

Now more than 9 years and counting into her planned mere 90 day mission to Mars, NASA’s legendary Opportunity rover has smashed past another space milestone and established a new distance driving record for an American vehicle on another world this week.

On Thursday, May 16, the long-lived Opportunity drove another 263 feet (80 meters) on Mars – bringing her total odometry since landing on 24 January 2004 to 22.220 miles (35.760 kilometers) – and broke through the 40 year old driving record set back in December 1972 by Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.

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Saturday: Todays card is the 2 of swords



The Two of Swords today asks you to consider the barriers that you erect between yourself and those around you. It also asks that you examine the internal barriers that you have built within you. Sometimes avoiding or refusing to accept some truth can create in-balance in your emotions. Dont avoid the truth today and pretend all is ok if it is not. Is there a stalemate situation around you, today would be a good day to tackle this, barriers are not the answer. Today is also a good day to reconcile any disputes or differences of opinions. Remove your blindfold and look at a situation with objectivity, find your facts and seek the truth.


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Be adaptable and focus on sorting out any pressing matters whatever they may be, sometimes avoiding or refusing to accept some truth can create in-balance in your emotions. Meet challenges which test your mettle by exercising good judgement keep to the facts and find solutions which suit everyone involved. Independence is important this week therefore create a balance between home and work, you may feel the need to spend quality time with friends and family, and to make amends by healing any rifts. Try to avoid careless or casual behaviour, remember in life your fate will not come to meet you - you must go to it. Work related learning and apprenticeships look promising, there are people around you that are able to offer knowledge and experience, share your work with a colleague/ partner this week. Plus consider when happiness or sadness enters your life, you invited it in, its not that fortune or misfortune has befallen you, be grateful for what you have, dont dwell on what you have not. If you want changes in your life it is up to you to make them, dont avoid the truth today and pretend all is ok if it is not. Put the past behind you and move forward to a new beginning, it is your own fear of acknowledging your accountability for the course of your life that leads you to blame fate for what befalls you. Take pride in what you have achieved and accept the feedback others give you graciously. Look around you this week and take advantage of what Mother Nature offers.


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Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) as seen in the early morning Arizona skies on May 16, 2013. Credit and copyright: Chris Schur.

The comet show is still not over! Early on May 16, 2013, astrophotographer Chris Schur from central Arizona was able to see two comets at once, Comet PANSTARRS AND Comet Lemmon. “We set up on our 14 foot tall balcony observing pad and was able to get the very low Comet Lemmon as it rose in the eastern sky,” Chris told Universe Today via email. “While PANSTARRS was up high by 2:30am, we had to wait until 3:30 before we could try Lemmon.”

While neither comet was visible to the naked eye, Chris reported that both were seen quite clearly in the 11×80 binoculars. “It was fun to go back and forth rapidly between the two objects to compare,” he said. “While PANSTARRS is now a very low surface brightness wedge shaped object, Lemmon was just a huge ball of light, about two magnitudes brighter.”
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