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Todays image is a video at the source link. The video seems to launch with the music muted so be sure to unmute it is you want the audio. It is a really nice video.

1 posted on 05/18/2025 1:28:07 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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Todays image is a video at the source link. The video seems to launch with the music muted so be sure to unmute it is you want the audio. It is a really nice video.

2 posted on 05/18/2025 1:28:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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That was a pretty amazing video


4 posted on 05/18/2025 1:44:07 PM PDT by mowowie
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Beautiful. Very impressive.


6 posted on 05/18/2025 2:09:02 PM PDT by TChad
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There was an object of colored something during the flyover.


7 posted on 05/18/2025 3:14:33 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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sure looks round like a planet to me. :)


8 posted on 05/18/2025 3:23:00 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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I thought I saw Uranus ...


11 posted on 05/18/2025 5:41:54 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hail to Pitt!)
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I gotta call BS on this one... according to the stars in the background, the craft changed directions drastically too many times and in too short of period to be “Orbiting”...


12 posted on 05/18/2025 5:42:54 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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Wow, incredible.


13 posted on 05/18/2025 5:51:24 PM PDT by Yardstick
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As a lifelong fan of interplanetary exploration, I am not only amazed, but also thrilled by this achievement. As a little kid during the JFK years I was excited to imagine such stuff - I even wanted to become an astronaut. I was fortunate enough in later years to work on attitude control systems for Earth-orbit spacecraft. But the interplanetary birds are a leap beyond, and the wonderful data they return just blows my mind.


15 posted on 05/18/2025 9:30:36 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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