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What is happening with the ‘For You’ algorithm right now??

Because I have seen not one, not two, but three posts about kinks that I have never interacted with in anyway (degradation, piss, and the final being bluntly transphobic when I myself am trans??) and have no clue why they’re there. I get it if Tumblr is trying to let smaller blogs get their posts seen, but Jesus Christ, I do not want random posts about random concepts that I either have no interest in or clash with my preconceived algorithm. Simply, what is up, Tumblr?

u know what screw it i’ll send more recommendations — i can see you being super good with choso too!!! and i also will suggest nanami just bc you dive so well into charas, i can see you playing his tired overworked self but i did see you showed interest in higuruma so !!!!! u should try him too!

Based off my blog, what other characters could you see me Roleplay as?

SHAKES YOU

Omg okay yall have convinced me, I will add Nanami to my muse list, it's so over for everyone

Also I've actually written choso before but only as a discord rp and higuruma.... He would be interesting to write omg I love cynical men going thru it. Will definitely evaluate if the muse sticks 👀

i think you would write the FUCK out of miss kujo herself, but also i would kind of kms to specifically write vanilla ice / dio with you. i'm self serving.

Based off my blog, what other characters could you see me Roleplay as?

the way I've actually written jolyne before 😭 it didn't last tho because my muses for rohan and abbacchio were far stronger but mayyybe I could bring her back I'd need to check my brain bits to revive the muse

As for vanilla ice idt I have a muse for him sadly 😭 I'm betraying sho hayami... But don't worry I've written giorno before and we can definitely have the patricide interaction we deserve

Who doesn’t need another chaos hot boy on their roster? I think you’d write a fun Nagumo.

Based off my blog, what other characters could you see me Roleplay as?

The people's princess omg 😭🫶 yessss actually I've considered writing him but I'd need to re read sakamoto days first so I can remember his speech manner... My tunnel vision made me absorb osaragi, gaku and takamura only

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdO0DX_XASDXifxgvbgDVLEVEHNR7fNZaDE9Sl3NrZtIqvZqQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Until then, here is where you can find our other content:

Youtube, where we have videos up already: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5YopimFGWF0SwDQTqQ720Q

Twitter, where we post the results of the game: https://twitter.com/ANCGaming4

Tiktok, where we post the clips: https://www.tiktok.com/@prettylittleartsy?_t=8Wboi9dhE8E&_r=1

You can even join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/k7ZZTX3Yp9

Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 3433 5088 3658!

Someone please I’m begging for friends to randomly send gifts to

Update: it’s only been 5 minutes but someone’s already added me and I hope you know I love you

Ｎｕ－ＧＵＮＤＡＭ－Ｌａ０１ 

GRX-75-4-La1 GUNFORTRESS SIDE 7 ROLLOUT

wally is an only child but the idea of him having a little sibling kills me a little bit but i do want it so if anyone wants oc ideas, aha-

ALTER EGO

Another game! I honestly thought Es was a man, but then I went to look fanarts and I realized she was a woman. Anyway, the drawing is mine, I do it as I wish.

I’m also playing other game besides this, and why are they always black-and-white with minor colorful details? Is it easier to paint?

Death Palette

What an awesome game. It's been a while since I played it, but I suddenly got the urge to draw the girl.

I tried following the game’s vibes, so I used a charcoal-like brush.

Top 10 Android apps vs Top 10 iPhone apps and what is missing in both

My ongoing review of Android and iPhone side by side has compelled me to look into what I think are the top apps (that I use regularly).  I figured the best way to look at this is what the top apps that I use on both phones, apps only on iPhone and apps only on Android.  I am going to exclude email and calendar for this post.  Both platforms have good, but not great functionality.

Top apps on BOTH phones:

Facebook:  This is the app I would say I am on the most outside of E-mail and Calendar.  Overall, as I have said previously, the iPhone version of the app is superior in most ways to the Android counterpart.  The design of the iPhone version is crisper and the iPhone version has chat whereas the Android version does not.

Twitter:  On the iPhone, I use Twitbird pro 2.2 which is a paid app.  On Android, I use Seesmic which is a free app.  Both have all the major Twitter functionality including trends, searches, lists, etc.  As I have said before, Android integrates twitter better into the experience by running it in the background which gives updates, etc. in your status bar without having to use push notifications.  I find push notifications annoying on the iPhone as they takeover whatever I am doing, so I have largely disabled them.

Barcode scanner for Shopping:  I used this A LOT this Christmas season and I found it absolutely a game changer.  It's so easy that my mother even uses this on her Motorola Droid.  Barcode scanner is a free app for Android and it works incredibly well.  It is fast, efficient and it find the best prices everywhere.  Red Laser is a paid app on the iPhone and isn't very good on the iPhone 3G due to the camera, however on the the 3GS, this seems to be fixed due to to the 3GS camera can focus on close up objects.

ESPN Radio app:  This is a paid app for Android and iPhone ($2.99).  You can listen live to over 16 ESPN radio stations as well as over 35 on demand podcasts and on-demand Sportscenter.  A must have for any sports fan.

Google Reader app.  Byline on iPhone is simple and elegant.  NewsRob on Android is probably the most powerful Google Reader app I could imagine.  At the end of the day though, both are great for what they do and you get your feeds efficiently.

Photoshop.  This is a free app for Android and iPhone.  This is an excellent photo editor.

Wikipedia.  I am a geek and I have a need for a plethora of useless facts at my fingertips.  This is a free app for both platforms and both apps work great.

Speedtest.  This is a free app on both and since I love to test Verizon's and AT&T's network constantly, I am a heavy user of this app :)

Amazon Mobile.  Both platforms provide an excellent app for shopping Amazon's extensive catalog. You can buy via one click purchase and all your options online are in the mobile versions.

Pandora Radio.  Pandora is a recommendation engine for music, letting listeners create radio stations based on their particular tastes. If you like AC/DC, create a station based on the Australian rockers to hear songs like "Highway to Hell," but you'll also get songs from bands with a similar sound pedigree, such as Black Sabbath.

iPhone Only apps I love:

Overall, the iPhone has A LOT more apps than Android and this list could be long, but I am focusing on apps I actually consistently use over time.  Mostly these are games as the gaming platform on the iPhone is vastly superior to Android today.

Kindle.  I love the Kindle on the iPhone.  I was amazed at how easy it was to read a book on it.  I have read several books on it and I feel it's a nice eReader.  It looks like no Kindle on Android is a victim of politics thus far due to the Nook.  These things are subject to change over time, but as of today, this is a miss for Android.

Air Mouse.  There are some alternatives on Android, but nothing is as good as Air Mouse.  This can take the place of a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.  I find this to be a great app and I use it a lot.

Alarm.com.  I use this app every day to interact with my home alarm system.  It won't do anyone any good unless you use Alarm.com.  This is a great app though and you can set, disarm and track statuses of your alarm as well as get live video from ay camera on your network.

Civilization Revolution.  This game is based on the XBOX 360 game.  The graphics and game play are actually more usable and better on the iPhone than on the Nintendo DS and the gameplay is better than on the 360.  My wife can attest that this has been a HUGE time waster for me :)

Real Soccer 2010.  This is a great soccer game for the iPhone and while I wouldn't take it over a Wii or an XBOX version, if I were on a plane or away from home, this is a really fun game.  I find it better than the EA version.

Tiger Woods 2010 golf.  I hate touting something by Tiger right now, but this game is absolutely sick.  One could spend HOURS playing this game alone.

Quicken.  I could live without the other apps I have listed, however Quicken is something I can't live without.  I am in this app every day and its fantastic for checking in where you are financially.  The only issue I have is that I have to login daily (it doesn't save that info).

Android Only Killer apps:  iPhone has some browser versions of these apps, but those are just a stopgap because Apple won't let these apps on the iPhone.  I am not including jail broken iPhones which open the iPhone to a lot of possibilities.

Google Goggles.  Google Goggles is a visual search app.  Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview.

Google Maps.  While iPhone comes with Google Maps, it lacks most of the reall strong features that Android's Google maps includes.  GPS Navigation, Latitude, US (only) is included which gives views of: compass arrow, scale bar, terrain layer, and more.

Google Voice.  Google Voice for Android lets you place calls and send SMS showing your Google number. Listen to voicemail and/or read transcripts from the Google Voice inbox. Google Voice account required, currently only available in the US.

PDA Net.PdaNet allows your computer to go online through the Android phone's data connection. Supports USB Tether and Bluetooth DUN. No root access needed and runs on all Android phones. Mac&PC.  Your phone does not need to be jailbroken to support this app.  Free version works on port 80, but a one time fee of $29 allows for VPN and SSL connections.

Super Nintendo Emulator.  SNesoid is an emulator for the Super Nintendo game console. It runs most games at a very much playable speed in full screen mode with sound.  It turns your Android phone into a Super Nintendo without needing to Jailbreak.  The Emulator is $3.49 on the Android market.

Talk to me.  Avoid language barriers by using a real-time speech-to-speech translator.  You speak into this app, and it translates for you into a new language.  VERY cool.

This is a problem on iPhone where sometimes apps just crash or things just "seem" slow.  You can get to the processes if you jailbreak, but Android allows this out of the box without needing to jailbreak.  While most users wouldn't use this feature, advanced users love this option.

Conclusion:  I think that the iPhone is an amazing device on the cusp of it's fourth iteration and it's obviously had a lot more put into it in terms of a developer's community and the platform as a whole.  For some reason only known to Steve Jobs, they are continuing to lock out Google.  That's like having a mall and saying no Les Wexner, I don't want any of your stores or anything you created.  That means no Limited, Victoria's Secret, Henri Bendel, Hollister, Abercrombie, Bath & Body Works, etc. You get the picture.  You could have an amazing mall, but without these stores, you are very exposed to competition.

Google is zeroing in on the weaknesses of Apple and attacking them hard.  There are only a few reasons to jailbreak your phone and all of those reasons are fixed in Android and those are: Backgrounding apps, Tethering, Google apps, Emulators for games, control over processes (killing tasks)  Apple will have to figure out these issues in the 4th generation iPhone.  Android needs to work on it's developer community and come up with an "easier" way to build apps the way Apple has with Coco.  Will it matter?  We will know by mid 2010 which I see as the year for the smartphone race to become a 2 horse race between iPhone and Android with Blackberry, Palm and Microsoft falling further behind.

Droid Eris vs iPhone vs Droid vs Blackberry Storm

I have been in a very unique position the past few weeks to be able to run consistent comparisons of these 4 phones together and I have tweeted about it and while I love Twitter and Facebook, questions about my feelings on the 4 phones can't be explained in 140 characters or less.

Sorry for all the pictures, but they kindof tell the story.  I will break this down into a few categories:

Apps

Time wasting apps

Games

Social Media Apps

Productivity Apps (searching, maps, etc.)

Web surfing

Multi tasking

Business usage

Call quality

Service

Network Speeds

Ergonomics

Now, that's a lot of categories, but I think across them it can tell the story of which phone is best for you.  That's what this is really about.  Not one phone is the best phone period, because like all things, the value is in the eye of the beholder and ultimately the consumer will decide.

I encourage you all to read all of the categories though as they will help you all get the best perspective.

APPS:

I will knock out time wasting apps first, now these account for 99% of all apps on the Apple App Store, the Blackberry App Store and the Android Market.  Each phone has good to adequate apps for weight management, media streaming (Pandora, Slacker Radio, etc.) however the iPhone just has more of them.  Will you use them outside of the major ones, probably not, but they are there and choice is a good thing.

Games:

This is where I see the iPhone truly outshining every other device and to be honest, I don't know if any Android device will ever be able to compete.  Blackberry, well, let's just move on because the games on the storm are simply embarrassing.  The iPhone is always a specific OS on a specific screen with specific hardware, so you can have great games even if the hardware is better on an Android device.  It's akin to games on PCs vs. games on Consoles.  Console games are generally just better because they don't have to code for different hardware and components, etc.  I see the Android games improving, will they ever match iPhone games, I am doubtful.  The coming of Flash to both platforms will make this more interesting, but for the foreseeable future, this category is squarely with the iPhone.

Both Android devices have basically the same games available to them and while vastly superior to the Blackberry, they don't have all the titles that iPhone boasts.

Social Media Apps:

This category seemed to cause a big stir for me with several DMs on Twitter and even a couple of calls, but here goes.  I have to give the edge here to the Droid Eris.  The Motorola Droid comes in second with the iPhone third and the Blackberry in a distant 4th.  Each platform has apps for all of the major Social Media apps and most of the peripheral apps.  The biggest miss I see is no Gowalla app on Android although they say one will be out shortly.  I personally use Foursquare, but that is a different topic for a different day.

The Droid Eris comes integrated with Twitter and Facebook out of the gate and from there, each new Social network integrates throughout the platform so that I can share pictures or videos right from my photo library along with being able to email or MMS them.  The iPhone requires you to open each app and then browse your libraries.  I always have found this painful and annoying.  The Droid can be easily configured to do the things the Eris does, but the Sense UI adds some pieces onto Android to make this just a tad smoother.  The only knock I have on the Droid is the Facebook app is weaker than it's iPhone counterpart.  It is going through regular revisions that have improved it drastically over the past couple months, but it's still not as "snazzy" as the iPhone version.  Twitdroid has a 4.75* rating with 21,000+ ratings as a twitter app and it's easily as good as any of the best Twitter apps for the iPhone.  The Blackberry, well, it's apps are just bad in comparison.

A big issue I have with the iPhone is the way that notifications are generally done.  They did a great job with email and how you can control if you get a push, audio and/or vibrate.  Now imagine having that same control for each and every social media outlet you have.  Yeah, that's what Android does.  I am sorry, it's just better.  I carry both phones all the time and I find myself using my Eris the most for most of what I do.

Productivity Apps:

I didn't know how else to name this category, but things like Google Latitude, Voice, Maps, Searching, etc.  These are some of the apps I use the most and being a google phone, obviously, the Droids do these things better, but for the life of me, I don't know why the iPhone has denied these services.  The way that you can easily just speak something like "Chipotle" or "Buckeye Nissan" and it pops it right into Google maps with the ability to make the call or get Google results.  The iPhone has some of these services, but they can't be backgrounded and that really hurts their productivity.  For instance, if I need to know if my wife is getting the kids or if I am by just looking at Latitude.  This makes a big difference in a busy family where we both have to be flexible.  The Droid edges out the Eris here because the Eris is still on 1.5 vs. 2.0 of Android, so Google Goggles, which I think will revolutionize searching, is only available on 1.6 and up for Android.  This will be moot in mid January as the Eris is being upgraded.

Web Surfing:

Overall, this category is a matter of preference, however, having a truly tabbed browser on Android that loads consistently is nice.  Mobile Safari on the iPhone is an absolutely outstanding browser that renders amazingly.  My only complaint is that when you switch "tabs", it nearly always forces a reload.  I use my browser to read the news a lot and this always bugs me.  There are lots of "browser wars" posts showing speeds of page loads, but I think this is difficult to show because there are so many factors at play.  In general, I have done numerous speed tests and AT&T is generally faster downloading and Verizon is faster uploading and is more consistent.

Multi Tasking:

Multi Tasking can mean a number of things to a number of people, but I think the AT&T commercial nails it.  I have found that being able to look something up while on a call is nice and it's a limitation of the Verizon CDMA network.  I give the nod to the iPhone here.

Business Usage:

Are we talking about Blackberry?  Yeah, this is probably the only category I will give to the Blackberry.  Enterprise activation is a nice thing for IT administrators and not requiring a Gmail account or an iTunes account is a good thing for business.  The mail and calendar aps on Android and iPhone have improved significantly, but they are not as strong as Blackberry.  Good technology has mentioned that they will be releasing an iPhone app and an Android app which could make this comparison moot, but that won't get around the need for a gmail account or an iTunes account.

Call Quality:

I have to give the iPhone a 0 here.  Stopping sales in New York and I have mapped out the 3 spots where I drop calls daily on my way home have me saying this is AT&T's biggest issue.  It's not data because they seem superior (to me) there.  It looks like the new software update on Blackberry to 5.0 has them MUCH better, but I am still having shivers from 4.7.  I have never lost a call on Android and call quality is crystal clear.

Service:

Service for iPhones is an ongoing issue.  Verizon will ship you a phone immediately if there is a problem and not require you to give a credit card, etc.  You can be without a phone for days if you have a problem whereas with Verizon, you will have a new phone the next day.  Combine this with all your data being on the cloud and the Android solution makes for seamless transitions from phone to phone whereas with iPhone you have to restore from a backup with iTunes and this process is a bit scary for most consumers.  The Mobile me service (at $99/yr) makes this much better, but should you really have to pay for this when Google and Blackberry make this free?  I have to give the joint nod overall to the Droids here due to the fact that if you aren't in an enterprise situation, the Blackberry is a bit of a black hole from a restore process.

Network Speeds:

I have a post on this, but that was just with the Storm.  I have been running on-going tests and I have a basic summary of avg speeds:

iPhone: 2000 KBs Down/190 KBs Up

Droid(s): 1500 KBs Down/900 KBs Up

Blackberry: 300 KBs Down/300 KBs Up

Overall, I give the nod to the iPhone here, but at those speeds, it doesn't much matter unless you are watching video.  Unless you jailbreak though, most of this is locked down whereas tv.com's Android app allows you to watch any CBS TV show live over the network.

Ergonomics:

The iPhone is just beautiful, but I have to say that I find myself liking the Droid Eris better.  It's a little smaller and the nice backing is rubbery and doesn't slide around so much when it's in the car.  I think the iPhone is just a little too wide for easy 1 hand texting.  I am a little faster on the droid eris with 1 hand texting.  The Droid is definitely not a 1 hand texting device, it's more of a mini computer with the keyboard.  If you are just using the phone like a netbook, the Droid is superior.  The Blackberry's push in screen is just annoying to me.  It makes fast typing nearly impossible.

Conclusion:

So, there you have it.  Overall, I find the Droid Eris to be the overall most friendly and useful device if I had to choose just one.  However, I am not a big gamer on my phone and I am a big Social Media user.  The tight Android integration is the "killer app" for me and all of the other drawbacks or advantages cancel eachother out.  If I had to choose just one device, I would likely select the Eris.  I would put the Droid a close second, mainly because the nice Sense UI and smaller profile of the Eris is more to my liking, but the Droid is a fantastic phone.  Third, I have the iPhone which is mainly in third as a result of no backgrounding and hence weak Social Media integration vs. Android and the AT&T handcuffs of call quality.  I have the Blackberry a distant last and I think RIM is in serious trouble.  I see both Palm and RIM becoming hanger-ons with Enterprise users and the mainstream will be a 2 horse race with iPhone and Android.

This blog post goes against all my rules of length, but there is a lot to talk about.  Please let me know your thoughts :)

Cheers!

Discover NASA Technology in Your Life

Have you ever wondered how space exploration impacts you? “Spinoffs” are products and services developed from NASA technology or improved through NASA partnerships. These innovations—first created to help explore space and study Earth—are responsible for billions of dollars in both revenue and saved costs, tens of thousands of jobs created, and for changing the world around us.

Our NASA Home & City interactive web platform allows you to explore some of the spinoff technologies you can find in your everyday life, demonstrating the wider benefits of America’s investments in its space program.

Here are the seven most unexpected items you can find in your homes and cities which were “spun off” from technologies to enable the study and exploration of space.

1. Wireless Headsets

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” On July 20, 1969, millions were glued to their television sets when NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong offered these famous words via live broadcast, upon becoming the first man to ever step foot on the Moon. This historic transmission was delivered from Armstrong’s headset to the headsets of Mission Control personnel at NASA, and then on to the world.

Improved by the technology that carried Neil Armstrong’s words, more compact and comfortable headsets were developed for airline pilots in the 1960s and '70s. Today those advancements continue to evolve in all forms of communications and telephone equipment. Mobile headsets provide greater efficiency and flexibility for everyone from professionals to video gamers.

2. Water Quality Monitoring

On the International Space Station very little goes to waste. This includes water, which is recovered from every possible source, cleaned and recycled.

Following our development of a simplified bacteria test for water quality on the space station, one engineer created a foundation to distribute test kits suitable for use in rural communities around the world. Water contamination is still a major problem in many places, and the test helps local communities and governments obtain and share water quality data using a smartphone app.

3. Skin Cream

We know that on Earth, gravity is a constant. For astronauts in orbit, however, it’s a different story—and according to a scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center, studying what happens to bodies in microgravity “can lead to significant new discoveries in human biology for the benefit of humankind.”

As our researchers experimented with replicating microgravity conditions in the lab, they invented a bioreactor that could help simulate conditions that human cells experience in a space-like environment. This allowed them to perform tissue-growth experiments on the ground and in space, and eventually, to consider the question of how to protect human cells from the toxic effects of long-duration space missions.

Now, thanks to this NASA-patented bioreactor, one company uses agents from human cells that produce collagen to enrich its skin cream products. Lab tests have shown the rejuvenating cream to increase skin moisture content by 76 percent and reduce darkness and wrinkles by more than 50 percent.

4. Acoustic Guitars

From its start, NASA has innovated in all branches of aeronautics, which has led to numerous advances in helicopters, including ways to limit vibrations as they fly and advanced composites to build tougher, safer vehicles. 

An industrious helicopter manufacturer that built up its expertise with NASA contracts later used the same special vibration analysis equipment to enhance the sound of acoustic guitars. The company also built the body out of a fiberglass composite used for rotor blades. The resulting instruments are stronger and less expensive to produce than those of traditional rosewood and produce a rich, full sound.

5. Tiny [Mobile] Homes

While the International Space Station is the largest spacecraft ever flown—it's about the size of a football field—living and working space for astronauts is still at a premium. NASA created a studio called the Habitability Design Center to experiment with the interior design of spacecraft to maximize usable space and make scientific research as efficient and effective as possible.

An architect who helped NASA design the interior of the International Space Station launched a company specializing in compact trailers for camping and exploration. Suitable for a full hookup campsite or going completely off-grid, the company's flagship trailer can accommodate two adults and two children for sleeping and can be customized with a range of features including a shower, refrigerator, toilet, and more. And it all fits into a unit light enough to be towed by a four-cylinder car.

6. Blue Light Blocking Ski Goggles

Skiers and snowboarders face extremely bright sunlight, especially when it's reflected off the white snow. That can make it hard to see, and not just because of glare. The blue in sunlight makes it more difficult to discern colors at the edge of the visible light spectrum, like reds. A NASA-designed filter used in snow goggles helps block up to 95 percent of blue light, making it easier for people on the slopes to see the terrain clearly.

7. Implants for the Hearing Impaired

Hearing aids, which make sound louder, can only do so much for those who were born or have become deaf. Cochlear implants work in a completely different way, converting sound into digital signals that can be processed by the brain.  And the technology traces back in part to a NASA space shuttle engineer who used skills in electronics instrumentation and his own experiences with hearing loss to develop an early version of the life-changing device.

These are just a few examples of thousands of NASA Spinoff and dual-purpose technologies benefiting the world around us. 

Trace space back to you and visit NASA Home and City today!

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Solar System: 10 Things to Know This Week

January 8: Images for Your Computer or Phone Wallpaper

Need some fresh perspective? Here are 10 vision-stretching images for your computer desktop or phone wallpaper. These are all real pictures, sent recently by our planetary missions throughout the solar system. You'll find more of our images at solarsystem.nasa.gov/galleries, images.nasa.gov and www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages.

Applying Wallpaper: 1. Click on the screen resolution you would like to use. 2. Right-click on the image (control-click on a Mac) and select the option 'Set the Background' or 'Set as Wallpaper' (or similar).

1. The Fault in Our Mars

This image from our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of northern Meridiani Planum shows faults that have disrupted layered deposits. Some of the faults produced a clean break along the layers, displacing and offsetting individual beds.

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2. Jupiter Blues

Our Juno spacecraft captured this image when the spacecraft was only 11,747 miles (18,906 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter's clouds -- that's roughly as far as the distance between New York City and Perth, Australia. The color-enhanced image, which captures a cloud system in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, was taken on Oct. 24, 2017, when Juno was at a latitude of 57.57 degrees (nearly three-fifths of the way from Jupiter's equator to its north pole) and performing its ninth close flyby of the gas giant planet.

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3. A Farewell to Saturn

After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, our Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings two days before the spacecraft's dramatic plunge into the planet's atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017.

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4. All Aglow

Saturn's moon Enceladus drifts before the rings, which glow brightly in the sunlight. Beneath its icy exterior shell, Enceladus hides a global ocean of liquid water. Just visible at the moon's south pole (at bottom here) is the plume of water ice particles and other material that constantly spews from that ocean via fractures in the ice. The bright speck to the right of Enceladus is a distant star. This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 6, 2011.

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5. Rare Encircling Filament

Our Solar Dynamics Observatory came across an oddity this week that the spacecraft has rarely observed before: a dark filament encircling an active region (Oct. 29-31, 2017). Solar filaments are clouds of charged particles that float above the Sun, tethered to it by magnetic forces. They are usually elongated and uneven strands. Only a handful of times before have we seen one shaped like a circle. (The black area to the left of the brighter active region is a coronal hole, a magnetically open region of the Sun).

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6. Jupiter's Stunning Southern Hemisphere

See Jupiter's southern hemisphere in beautiful detail in this image taken by our Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced view captures one of the white ovals in the "String of Pearls," one of eight massive rotating storms at 40 degrees south latitude on the gas giant planet. The image was taken on Oct. 24, 2017, as Juno performed its ninth close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was 20,577 miles (33,115 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet.

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7. Saturn's Rings: View from Beneath

Our Cassini spacecraft obtained this panoramic view of Saturn's rings on Sept. 9, 2017, just minutes after it passed through the ring plane. The view looks upward at the southern face of the rings from a vantage point above Saturn's southern hemisphere.

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8. From Hot to Hottest

This sequence of images from our Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere all taken at about the same time (Oct. 27, 2017). The first shows the surface of the sun in filtered white light; the other seven images were taken in different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light. Note that each wavelength reveals somewhat different features. They are shown in order of temperature, from the first one at about 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit (6,000 degrees Celsius) on the surface, out to about 10 million degrees in the upper atmosphere. Yes, the sun's outer atmosphere is much, much hotter than the surface. Scientists are getting closer to solving the processes that generate this phenomenon.

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9. High Resolution View of Ceres

This orthographic projection shows dwarf planet Ceres as seen by our Dawn spacecraft. The projection is centered on Occator Crater, home to the brightest area on Ceres. Occator is centered at 20 degrees north latitude, 239 degrees east longitude.

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10. In the Chasm

This image from our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small portion of the floor of Coprates Chasma, a large trough within the Valles Marineris system of canyons. Although the exact sequence of events that formed Coprates Chasma is unknown, the ripples, mesas, and craters visible throughout the terrain point to a complex history involving multiple mechanisms of erosion and deposition. The main trough of Coprates Chasma ranges from 37 miles (60 kilometers) to 62 miles (100 kilometers) in width.

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