I'll say 1151.

Is Sofi Crater in this image ?

Sofi Crater ?

Thanks.

I saw the Shuttle launch from the apartment complex here in Orange Park, FL. It looked like a large firework, and it was an amazing site.

You'd have to have bad eyesight to miss it, it jumps out and says "LOOK HERE"......

Yes its very noticable that the tracks get less defined as you go back in sols. I guess eventually they will dissappear from MRO's view ?

I did not see any in NE Florida either.

Launch "attempt", I say, as the first one was a failure.

All of the dust would not be blown away if it was electrostatically stuck to the rover deck, that peice of string is proberly very very light weight. Also it does seem to have scratched some dust away.

Excellent .

Sounds like they may just need to get the antenna folded, then re dock.

""There was some problem with achieving a perfect seal," he said. "We have had such incidents before and it is not something extraordinary."

Sounds fixable.

Orion 13, er remember Apollo 13..... I hope they skip 13 to 12 L or something...........

I attended a meeting to discus if Pluto was a planet or not in the International Space Musuem on Second Life, it was fascinating. I think the consenses was NO.

They are not very clear, are they ?

I can't wait till Messenger flies by Mercury, and later of course orbits it.

1. Carl Sagan.
2. John F Kennedy (created the space race ).
3. Galileo.
4. Von Braun.
5. Patrick Moore (Sky At Night ).

I like that pic. Its surreal seeing a DSN station where Oppy actually is. Also Victoria isn't all that big of a Martian crater really.

The general public don't know what a nuclear explosion is. I would not want to eat a pound of Pu though....I am heavy enough as it is lol !!!!

News conference is on, I only have access to still pictures but looks like they have been photographing the North Pole somewhat.

So there is plenty of water for the heated swimming pools when we colonise the place.

I saw that live too

I never thought for a second t was not the rim.

Are they 100 % certain they actually have wet lakes, or just dry lake beds ?

Nice words Stu, very evokative.

Did anyone else notice the tracks left by a few boulders as they rolled down into Victoria ? Must have been "recent" events.

When one sees Oppy resolved as a black point on a zoomed out pic of Victoria, it shows how big Viccy is and how small the rover is.