Bid Adieu to Fall

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– Winter Solstice arrives Sunday at 6:03 pm
– The Mars Rover Curiosity discovers evidence of lacustrine deposits in Gale Crater at the base of Mt. Sharp. All but proving that Mars had big lakes of water and MAYBE life-supporting environments.
– Sunday evening check out: red planet Mars in the Southwest . . . and red star Aldebaran in the east. Compare: stars twinkle, planets don’t twinkle.

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