19 January
1747: On 19 January 1747, Johann Elert Bode was born in Hamburg, Germany.
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1921: On 20 January 1921, Mary Watson Whitney died.
Whitney was an American astronomer who became the director of the Vassar observatory and a founding member of the American Astronomical Society.
She concentrated in particular on double stars, variable stars, asteroids, comets, and the precise measurement of photographic plates.
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18 January
2004: On 18 January 2004, the OMEGA instrument on ESA's Mars Express mapped the South polar cap of the Red Planet.
16 January
2004: On 16 January 2004, ESA’s Mars Express orbiter flew almost directly over the NASA Spirit rover at Gusev Crater at an altitude of about 300 kilometres.
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