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Everyone, say hi to a couple of newly-named features...
"Pedro de Villa"...
... and "Rui Fernandez"...
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Jan 17 2011, 03:39 PM
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Mucho gusto!
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Jan 17 2011, 05:28 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 17 2011, 03:01 PM)  ... and "Rui Fernandez"... As one of Earth's Ruis I welcome our Martian namesake...
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 17 2011, 05:36 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
There'll be a rock a *lot* bigger than that named after you one day, my friend!
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Jan 17 2011, 05:55 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 17 2011, 12:36 PM) There'll be a rock a *lot* bigger than that named after you one day, my friend! You mean an abyss!  Maybe one of these. |
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Jan 17 2011, 11:43 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 17 2011, 09:36 AM) There'll be a rock a *lot* bigger than that named after you one day, my friend! Indeed. However, the core requirement will be that it be highly huggable.. 
-------------------- 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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Jan 18 2011, 03:24 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Walk alongside Oppy as she heads uphill towards Luis de Torres...
http://twitpic.com/3r6r7b/full (gif animation) -------------------- |
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Jan 19 2011, 03:03 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
VERY cool!
-------------------- 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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Jan 19 2011, 05:55 AM
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7 years in, and only one word is required: WOW! thx for the treat
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Jan 20 2011, 03:56 AM
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This image just appeared on the exploratorium - it's from sol 353!
 http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...EEP2867L5M2.JPG I wonder if this was stuck somewhere on earth all this time or if it actually just came down from Mars? There's an M1 version of the image at the jpl site. |
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Jan 20 2011, 04:24 AM
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Looks like the RAT is in action (or at least its brush), from the Forward Hazcam images...
In reference to my earlier post about Santa Maria maybe being an impact in a rubble pile -- as better images came in, the horizontal layers below the old surface showed through the rubble, so it is NOT a crater in a rubble pile. There does seem to be something "funny" about the south/east side, though. And I like the dark friable debris dribbling out of cracks on the S/SE wall... |
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Jan 20 2011, 11:41 AM
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Partial panorama.
Taken on Sol 2484 with the L2 Pancam. Jan van Driel
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Jan 20 2011, 08:35 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I've just put up something new on my "astropoetry"blog, inspired by Oppy at Santa Maria, if anyone would like to take a look...
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Jan 20 2011, 09:45 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Brushing started...
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Jan 20 2011, 10:30 PM
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QUOTE (Scott Maxwell) The MB spectrometer radiation source has degraded so much that 100 hours of MB integration now = 15 minutes during prime mission. Wow! Not unexpected of course, but still When will they finish the integration? March? April? |
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