Good morning.
Monday will be sunny and cold, with a high of eight degrees.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6 PM.
NASA’s Curiosity rover recently took a picture of the Martian night sky, with Earth and the Moon visible:
This view of the twilight sky and Martian horizon taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover includes Earth as the brightest point of light in the night sky. Earth is a little left of center in the image, and our moon is just below Earth. Two annotated versions of this image are also available in Figures 1 and 2.
Researchers used the left eye camera of Curiosity’s Mast Camera (Mastcam) to capture this scene about 80 minutes after sunset on the 529th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars (Jan. 31, 2014). The image has been processed to remove effects of cosmic rays.A human observer with normal vision, if standing on Mars, could easily see Earth and the moon as two distinct, bright “evening stars.”
The distance between Earth and Mars when Curiosity took the photo was about 99 million miles (160 million kilometers).
On this day in 1763, Wisconsin – once French – becomes English:
1763 – Treaty of Paris Cedes Wisconsin to England
On this date the Treaty of Paris ceded formerly French-controlled land, including the Wisconsin region, to England. [Source: Avalon Project at Yale University]
Puzzability begins a new game series today, with a Valentine’s holiday theme:
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This Week’s Game — February 10-14
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Candy and Flowers
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We’ve gotten you two gifts every day this Valentine’s week. For each day, we started with the name of a chocolate brand plus the name of a flower. Each day’s clue shows the brand name and the flower name melded together in a string of letters, with each in order but intermingled with the other.
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Example:
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LDOILVEY
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Answer:
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Dove/lily
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What to Submit:
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Submit the brand and the flower, in that order (as “Dove/lily” in the example), for your answer.
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Monday, February 10
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