2009/Times/photography. 2009 in Focus: Best of Times photography Memorable moments captured by Los Angeles Times photographers in 2009 U.S. Forest Service firefighters let the Station fire burn along Angeles Crest Highway in the early morning hours in La Canada Flintridge. Backfires were set to keep flames from the mammoth blaze away from the foothill communities, including La Canada and La Crescenta. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / August 29, 2009)Related: • More photos:Southern California wildfires • Panorama:A Tujunga neighborhood ravaged by the Station fire R&B star Usher rests his hand on Michael Jackson's coffin as he sings Jackson's "Gone Too Soon" during the star's memorial service at Staples Center.
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Science news and science jobs from New Scientist. Strange Matter. The 12th Planet, Planet X Files, Space and Science Anomalies. A Closer Encounter with Mars (06/30/1999) - Introduction. June 30, 1999: Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. NASA is releasing these images to commemorate the second anniversary of the Mars Pathfinder landing.
The telescope snapped these pictures between April 27 and May 6, 1999, when Mars was 54 million miles (87 million kilometers) from Earth. From this distance the telescope could see Martian features as small as 12 miles (19 kilometers) wide. The telescope obtained four images, which, together, show the entire planet. Each view depicts the planet as it completes one quarter of its daily rotation. See the rest: See All the Images Photo Credit: Steve Lee (University of Colorado), Jim Bell (Cornell University), Mike Wolff (Space Science Institute), and NASA.