I'm flooding the site with Django stuff lately, but I've had a recent burst of productivity that I attribute almost solely to my reading of James Bennett's new book, Practical Django Projects. This particular project isn't completely done yet, but it mostly works. I just need to make this public to force me to get it to where I want it to be. The idea is this: I maintain one or two sites that aggregate posts from other people's blogs. Typically these are called "planet" sites after the first popular bit of software that performed this task. They're very popular ...
The first is another photo captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's high-resolution imager. You can see the lander suspended from the parachute. This photo is taken at a very unique angle which makes it looks as if the lander will end up in the large crater, however: Shown here is a 10 kilometer (6 mile) diameter crater informally called "Heimdall," and an improved full-resolution image of the parachute and lander. Although it appears that Phoenix is descending into the crater, it is actually about 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) in front of the crater. This is another photo from the orbiter, ...