Literally, behind us in Central Park fireworks set the sky ablaze to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the five boroughs constituting New York City.
Too big to rely on air bags to cushion its fall as with previous Mars landers, Curiosity landed through an automated system of high-speed maneuvers, a supersonic parachute, eight retro-rockets and a set of "sky-crane" tethers that lowered the vehicle gently the last few feet to the ground.
Reportedly, Sky is set to broadcast America's most-watched sporting event to its customers in crisp high definition, which would make it the first major US-centric sporting event to be shown in such clarity by the company.
The project is also the first production for Sky Pictures, set up to provide the broadcaster with home-grown film output.
The show, which does not yet have a title, is set to debut on the Sky Living channel in Britain.
Many of Sky's set-top boxes have a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) port on the back that can link to a high-speed net service.
Notwithstanding the extent to which the Apple ad was a gamble, it reached for the glory of extreme hyperbole, and brazenly set user expectations to the sky.
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Since travel agency computers aren't set up to deal with sky couch bookings, most are bought through the airline's website or through a call to the carrier.
Wiggins was set to play a supporting role to Sky's lead rider Froome at this year's Tour.
"Sky intends to continue to set the pace of change in media content and distribution, " a company spokesman was quoted as saying.
For Valentine's Day, Air New Zealand has launched a blind date contest called "Blind Gate" (get it?) to promote its new "sky couch, " a set of three seats that fold into a bed for two.
The AIM market, unlike NASDAQ, uses a market maker, a representative firm that uses a series of factors to determine and set a fair share price for stocks like Sky Capital Holdings, which had a low share trading volume.
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One of the series' most beautiful effects occurs during a funeral, when the bodies of tribe members killed in battle are set alight on elevated pyres and then rise slowly toward the sky in a shower of sparks.
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Starchaser 3 made a short but dramatic flight last March when instead of climbing to high into the sky as planned it veered off course, crashed and set fire to the surrounding moorland.
The security gate inspections has also forced the sky warrior to add mental endurance to his or her skill set.
Yet taken together it forms a fascinating survey of the ways different artists have responded to the same set of givens: the land, the ocean, the dome of sky above and the uniquely glimmering light.
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To start out as a writer then was to set out under a higher, wider, filthier, more window-lit sky.
Set deep in the Purcell Mountain range and reaching jagged and sharp into the sky, 2, 651m-high Mount Nimbus is the kind of wild and extraordinary place that few casual mountaineers can usually reach.
After a three-year inquiry, Ofcom ruled in 2010 that, to ensure competition in the pay-TV retail market, Sky should be forced to sell its main sports channels at prices set by the regulator.
By the time it is set up, however, mountains of data will have piled up from several automated sky surveys that are being carried out by robotic telescopes.
James Murdoch's hopes of keeping News Corporation's planned takeover of 100% of British Sky Broadcasting away from the scrutiny of the media regulator, Ofcom, look set to be dashed.
And if they do, it could set back the recovery of some of the world's big airlines just when the sky was starting to look a lot less grey.
As a grey sky gives way to a blazing sun, Ms. Buitendach and Ms. Olsson set out.
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The team went on to use data from a range of other telescopes including the Very Large Telescope, the Two Micron All-Sky Survey and the Spitzer space telescope - each of which sees in a particular set of colours, in turn evidencing stars of varying ages.
In Matthew Weiner's 1960s-set serial - shown in the US on AMC and about to be a flagship series for the UK's Sky Atlantic - the focus is firmly on tone, mood and character development at the expense of plot-points.
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