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The week in pictures: August 4–10, 2012

In the past seven days, NASA's Curiosity rover safely landed on Mars and began sending home images and data, scientists released a 3-D map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, Sir Bernard Lovell passed away, and more.

Published: August 10, 2012
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