Getting Unstuck in West Valley |
Getting Unstuck in West Valley |
Jun 30 2009, 11:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
The difference being, Paolo's expected result is based on science, not fantasy.
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Jun 30 2009, 12:52 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
What happened to Geraldo ?
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Jun 30 2009, 12:54 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
That takes guts doing it in front of the media. Remember what happened to Geraldo Rivera. What happened? I think I'v heard of him, but I'm not sure what you are referring to. Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Jun 30 2009, 01:07 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
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Jun 30 2009, 01:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Back in the late '70s or early '80s, Geraldo Rivera pushed this major network special, "The Secret of Al Capone's Vaults," during which these supposed hidey-holes once used by mobster Al Capone were opened up on live television. There was absolutely nothing in the "vaults," and ever since Rivera has been held up as the textbook example of all-hype, no-substance television programming.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jun 30 2009, 01:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4245 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Is that the Sun in this picture ? That frame was taken at 19:49 local solar time, when the Sun was almost 18 degrees below the horizon, according to this filename decoder. Also, although the shape of that blob is pretty convincingly Sun-shaped, the Sun would appear larger than that with navcam. |
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Jun 30 2009, 02:44 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
I thought it did look a little small.
Thanks. BTW I saw the smoke contrail from the Delta that launched GEOS O on Saturday as we drove to UNF. |
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Jun 30 2009, 03:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Yes, it is too small for the Sun, however it is about the right size for Phobos...
Hmmm, anyone want to check where it would have been at the time? -------------------- |
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Jun 30 2009, 03:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Isn't it a little too bright for Phobos? If solar glow below the horizon peaks quite a distance above that, wouldn't atmospheric extinction be too strong at that low an elevation? Also, since Phobos would be in the general direction of the Sun, it would be at a thin crescent phase, pretty dim by itself.
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Jun 30 2009, 03:04 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
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When you got too much time and a delirious mind what do you do? Silly things... I found myself thinking waaay outside the box (no pun intended...), and went to read the passage on how Ulysses was able to leave Calypso's island where he was imprisioned after returning from Troy on its way to Ithaca. I am not expecting a rover to build a wood raft but since we're putting Spirit in the Odyssey's scenario it doesn't hurt to take a look and, this is my intention, to see if any line there could cause a spark in someone's mind. There must be something in here...among this axe sharpened on both sides, an adze, augers, squaring by rule, levers... Trying to convert Homer's writing to XXI century engineering...what a crazy challenge! My kind!...Think like a child! Here's the text...: When the child of morning rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, Ulysses put on his shirt and cloak, while the goddess wore a dress of a light gossamer fabric, very fine and graceful, with a beautiful golden girdle about her waist and a veil to cover her head. She at once set herself to think how she could speed Ulysses on his way. So she gave him a great bronze axe that suited his hands; it was sharpened on both sides, and had a beautiful olive-wood handle fitted firmly on to it. She also gave him a sharp adze, and then led the way to the far end of the island where the largest trees grew--alder, poplar and pine, that reached the sky--very dry and well seasoned, so as to sail light for him in the water. Then, when she had shown him where the best trees grew, Calypso went home, leaving him to cut them, which he soon finished doing. He cut down twenty trees in all and adzed them smooth, squaring them by rule in good workmanlike fashion. Meanwhile Calypso came back with some augers, so he bored holes with them and fitted the timbers together with bolts and rivets. He made the raft as broad as a skilled shipwright makes the beam of a large vessel, and he fixed a deck on top of the ribs, and ran a gunwale all round it. He also made a mast with a yard arm, and a rudder to steer with. He fenced the raft all round with wicker hurdles as a protection against the waves, and then he threw on a quantity of wood. By and by Calypso brought him some linen to make the sails, and he made these too, excellently, making them fast with braces and sheets. Last of all, with the help of levers, he drew the raft down into the water. In four days he had completed the whole work, and on the fifth Calypso sent him from the island after washing him and giving him some clean clothes. She gave him a goat skin full of black wine, and another larger one of water; she also gave him a wallet full of provisions, and found him in much good meat. Moreover, she made the wind fair and warm for him, and gladly did Ulysses spread his sail before it, while he sat and guided the raft skilfully by means of the rudder. He never closed his eyes, but kept them fixed on the Pleiads, on late-setting Bootes, and on the Bear--which men also call the wain, and which turns round and round where it is, facing Orion, and alone never dipping into the stream of Oceanus--for Calypso had told him to keep this to his left. Days seven and ten did he sail over the sea, and on the eighteenth the dim outlines of the mountains on the nearest part of the Phaeacian coast appeared, rising like a shield on the horizon. -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jun 30 2009, 03:39 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Awesome.
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Jun 30 2009, 04:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
I agree ugordan, after I posted that I began to worry that it was too bright and that it should have been a crescent.
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Jun 30 2009, 10:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Lots of info in this interview
QUOTE She has more power now than she has in almost 4 years. QUOTE nobody doubts that we'll get out and get back on the road.
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Jun 30 2009, 10:22 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
Well, I don't know how to tell you guys, but we have one more rover stuck in sand. This morning we rolled the testbed rover in the sandbox and partly embedded it in the soil simulant. We attempted some small motions to verify that the rover s not moving when operated with 5 wheels. Tomorrow we will be setting the rover for extrication testing.
Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Jun 30 2009, 10:29 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
In this case- Yay! Good news!!!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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