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Mars time comes to your desktop
by Ryan Carter Aug 7th 2006 at 11:35AM
Ever wonder what time it is on Mars? If you are an astronomy buff at all, you may have. Mars Clock is a small Java based application available from NASA's Goddard Institute website. This nifty app will display the surface of Mars and rotate in real time, Mars time that is. You can also toggle the display of the rover landing zones on Mars, as well as current locations of each. Did you know that scientists working on Mars projects actually put themselves on Mars time, so they can be "in-sync" with Mars daytime? And I thought I didn't get much sleep. Man, those guys are hardcore. Mars Clock is out of this world. No, I suppose it wasn't so funny, oh well. I am going to find out what time it is on Mars right now.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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