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First Snow of the Season

An accidental recording documents Monday’s snow, the first of the season …

Google Data Center – Street View

The LA Times’ multimedia Framework section documents the 12-mile trip this past weekend of the space shuttle Endeavor across city streets from LAX to the California Science Center. The Endeavor crossed the 405 Freeway and traversed familiar streets like Crenshaw, Manchester, Sepulveda and La Tijera, through communities including Westchester and Inglewood before arriving at the downtown Exposition Park destination. This downtown location, near Figueroa across from USC and the Coliseum, was a frequent venue visited by Nik and Ivi when they were very, very young.

Here you can also see an earlier panorama of Endeavor in September when it arrived at LAX.

Finally, find this backstory on LA Times’ photographer Gary Friedman’s now-famous shot of the Endeavor juxtaposed over the Hollywood sign.

Mars Panoramas

Here you can find a couple of Mars views from the Curiousity and Opportunity rovers:

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/curiosity-first-color-360.html

Street View Gallery

Google lets us do some pretty good armchair traveling via its Street View Collections. One of many is this tour of Kennedy Space Center:

Ivi Moves In

Yesterday, we load up and drive Ivi to Lewis & Clark. She moves into a brand new dorm (newest one on campus), occupying a second-floor two-woman room (her roommate is already in) in the ever verdant L & C environment. We await further details.