Closing in on targets

While the Dawn spacecraft closes in on asteroid Vesta, the Opportunity rover is getting close enough to the rim of the big Endeavour crater that geological details of the rim are starting to become visible:



It's only a matter of days and weeks now... pretty amazing in both cases - one, a journey of millions of miles, and two, a journey of meters and centimeters, but both about to visit places never seen closely by humans before.

And Republicans want to cut the budget for explorations like this.

Criminal, I tell ya.