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[Boing Boing] Mars in Crayon -- Boing Boing Gadgets. Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 26, 2009 10:00 AM | permalink. On BBG: the amazing story of how color images of Mars emerged in crayon: The people at the JPL were so excited to receive the images that ...

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