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My take is they can't get an icy sample into the oven, despite their best efforts . It makes sense to go ahead with a "dry" sample as the clock is ticking. Also the spacecraft could at anytime fail, and that would be the end of the mission. |
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| Posted on: Jul 22 2008, 04:01 PM | |
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I wonder if they anticipted this problem. In laymans terms, its not working. |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #121202 · Replies: 133 · Views: 136977 |
| Posted on: Jul 11 2008, 10:30 PM | |
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| Posted on: Jul 10 2008, 11:50 AM | |
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Any news on when they will image parts of the scene without any compression ? |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #120337 · Replies: 121 · Views: 139042 |
| Posted on: Jul 10 2008, 11:48 AM | |
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Can anyone enlighten me to which fairy tale this comes from ? 14E1-0: SSI 15F - Deadly Poppy Field Thanks. |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #120336 · Replies: 121 · Views: 139042 |
| Posted on: Jul 3 2008, 01:55 PM | |
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Of course, they probably know Phoenix will last for 200 days, so no hurry to try achieve full mission success. |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #119856 · Replies: 405 · Views: 222848 |
| Posted on: Jul 3 2008, 01:33 PM | |
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 3 2008, 02:12 PM)  Can you work for 90 long days straight without a break without making a big mistake? Yes but the team does not consist of one person........ |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #119849 · Replies: 405 · Views: 222848 |
| Posted on: Jul 3 2008, 01:05 PM | |
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I can't believe the team is taking a few days off to celebrate US Independence day....... |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #119844 · Replies: 405 · Views: 222848 |
| Posted on: Jul 1 2008, 10:56 AM | |
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MGS died......  |
| Forum: Mars Odyssey · Post Preview: #119686 · Replies: 24 · Views: 79950 |
| Posted on: Jun 30 2008, 01:01 PM | |
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He sounds like a typical slightly nutty scientist type......... |
| Forum: Dawn · Post Preview: #119626 · Replies: 285 · Views: 337503 |
| Posted on: Jun 27 2008, 06:24 PM | |
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QUOTE (jmknapp @ Jun 27 2008, 06:28 PM) Although Lowell thought he saw "man"-made canals. As for seeing evidence of water channels generally on this very dry world, Lowell has plenty of modern company. In fact, the word "water" almost seems to inhabit every other sentence in the history of Mars scientific inquiry and ruminations, relative lack of said substance notwithstanding. There are billions of tonnes of water on Mars. It's mostly frozen though.......... |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #119416 · Replies: 254 · Views: 221904 |
| Posted on: Jun 27 2008, 10:43 AM | |
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Spirit will be running all over the place like a young puppy come the spring  . |
| Forum: Spirit · Post Preview: #119390 · Replies: 429 · Views: 278392 |
| Posted on: Jun 25 2008, 03:30 PM | |
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QUOTE (ZenDraken @ Jun 25 2008, 03:24 PM) Spirit and Opportunity should have brought a feather duster. A 2 million dollar duster, so we cut the mini-tes out ? Mer was designed to last 90 sols, thought the engineers knew better but kept it quiet...... |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #119189 · Replies: 405 · Views: 222848 |
| Posted on: Jun 25 2008, 02:41 PM | |
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Excellent. |
| Forum: Spirit · Post Preview: #119179 · Replies: 429 · Views: 278392 |
| Posted on: Jun 25 2008, 10:26 AM | |
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The surface is definitely not as flat as everyone seems to think it would have been, which is nice really..... Also I forgot how flat Miridiani is !! flat flat flat......... |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #119160 · Replies: 355 · Views: 224028 |
| Posted on: Jun 25 2008, 10:22 AM | |
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Stuff happens.....on the positive side the ovens can still be used with only a few mm of openings. Also they are confident the Lander will operate till November, so we get 60 extra days of science . |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #119158 · Replies: 405 · Views: 222848 |
| Posted on: Jun 23 2008, 07:35 PM | |
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Sample delivery to MECA ?  |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #118999 · Replies: 133 · Views: 136977 |
| Posted on: Jun 23 2008, 04:15 PM | |
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When I was looking at the Hi-Rise of the Phoenix Lander on the surface I can see channels that look like small river channels. Did anyone else notice this ? Channels ? |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #118977 · Replies: 254 · Views: 221904 |
| Posted on: Jun 23 2008, 10:08 AM | |
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Lemmons caption says they went into Safemode.... Sol 027: Exit safe mode (was: WCL test, remote sensing, hold sample for WCL) |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #118956 · Replies: 355 · Views: 224028 |
| Posted on: Jun 19 2008, 01:57 PM | |
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I loved the series Startrek, you always waited with anticipation for when the person in the redshirt was going to die. |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #118550 · Replies: 32 · Views: 49927 |
| Posted on: Jun 19 2008, 12:00 PM | |
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QUOTE (tasp @ Jun 11 2008, 09:44 PM) Surprising amount of interest has been shown here for imaging 'snow' drifts in the Martian boreal realm. Perhaps a future mission someday might be designed with an extra battery... That's like sending half of another lander to Mars, there will be extra weight, complexity, and of course cost involved. They could could not even afford to double the flash memory, let alone carry a heavy extra long life battery. |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #118545 · Replies: 58 · Views: 58356 |
| Posted on: Jun 17 2008, 03:35 PM | |
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Nice, I was just looking at the pictures. I noticed they dumped a scoop full at the far end of the trench rather than somewhere else, any one have any thoughts on why ? |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #118419 · Replies: 355 · Views: 224028 |
| Posted on: Jun 17 2008, 02:36 PM | |
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QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jun 15 2008, 04:00 AM) I just love it when images like this come together. You know if no one had said anything I too would have thought those we the same type of image of the microscope view. We are made of the same stuff stars are made of. |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #118412 · Replies: 133 · Views: 136977 |
| Posted on: Jun 13 2008, 08:15 PM | |
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Peter said he'd going to " lay waste " to the National Park, that made me smile. Peter was grinning and smiling when he said that too. He wants to see the ice, lots of it too....... |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #118104 · Replies: 207 · Views: 134542 |
| Posted on: Jun 13 2008, 04:55 PM | |
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Wow, look at the valley wall, nice. This won't be the highest resolution yet is it ? |
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