The latest 64-bit version of Image Composite Editor is Version 2.0.3 issued on 25 February 2015. And this is one of the very best inventions since sex! And a hell of a lot easier on your back! (Would I lie to you?)
Just a hint: Using your own icons for folders makes them a lot easier to pick out of a crowd... and if you'd like to make your own icons help is at hand.
Meanwhile, inside Stellarium, your own Planetarium, it's a nice morning, and there's a couple of meteorite showers to watch for, while we admire the sky.
And Mars this morning is 99% visible, but we're looking at the uninteresting side of it, so there's not much happening.....
But this is what Earth looks like this morning from Mars, and because it's so far away, let's zoom in on it, for a better look....
And call me crazy, but I think Mars once looked a lot like this itself, before that frozen meteoroid about the size of Pluto punctured its crust near the equator about 3.5 billion years ago, almost totally destroying it, and leaving what we see there now. And remember, folks, the truth is stranger than fiction. And what do I see there now? Mostly, its formerly 'plastic' or molten core, suddenly cooled after the loss of most of its surface features, atmosphere, and its magnetic field, following an almost unimaginable explosion within it. Gravity reassembled it, but not quite exactly, and that's why one hemisphere is at an elevation of several kilometers different from its other hemisphere. It had to have been almost torn in two, before those still-molten halves came smacking back together, slightly misaligned. That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it....
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