What's the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT? |
What's the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT? |
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Jan 16 2010, 01:15 AM
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From Twitter
HiRISE Stay tuned, HiFans, we'll be making a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT next Wednesday...! :-o Hmmm... is it literally something BIG, or maybe they found MPL? |
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Jan 16 2010, 02:05 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Terrible teases, aren't they? What a way to drive us nuts. Frankly, given this tease, if they don't announce they've definitively found MPL or Beagle 2 or evidence that Phoenix tried to walk south for the winter (kidding) I'll feel disappointed!
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Jan 16 2010, 02:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
A direct tie in with unmannedspaceflight.com?
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Jan 16 2010, 03:56 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 11-April 08 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 4093 |
... Phoenix tried to walk south for the winter ... Nah, snowboarding south! -------------------- |
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Jan 16 2010, 04:08 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
or evidence that Phoenix tried to walk south for the winter Maybe Phoenix did one-arm pushups to keep warm all winter. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jan 16 2010, 04:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1432 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Maybe they discovered water on Mars!
More seriously, I'm guessing it's MPL or Beagle 2 as well. I don't really know what else could come from HiRise to warrant an all-caps big announcement. I'm faintly thinking something about the methane sources, but I don't see how it could have been done with HiRise, unless... they imaged a bunch of animals running about. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Jan 16 2010, 05:42 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Maybe they discovered water on Mars! Hungry4info, I hate your suggestion, because seriously, you might be right. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jan 16 2010, 05:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
Why are we waiting?
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Jan 16 2010, 06:32 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 31-May 05 From: Bloomington, Minnesota Member No.: 397 |
How many times has water on Mars been discovered? It must be over a dozen by now.
I hope it does turn out to be one of the lost landers. That would be quite cool news. |
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Jan 16 2010, 06:47 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
If it IS water, it'd better be an active geyser or a hot spring!
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Jan 16 2010, 08:18 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I hope it isn't just the discovery of MPL or Beagle, because the press might crucify them for that - for us it would be cool, true, but finding the wreckage of a dead, failed probe would not be a "big" thing for serious media or the general public, surely?
No, I think this has to be water related. Hey! Maybe they found some trees! Oh, wait... -------------------- |
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Jan 16 2010, 08:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
or combining all three main themes (old spacecraft, liquid water and life) perhaps they imaged a Martian dog taking a leak on the MPL wreck...
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Jan 16 2010, 08:29 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
...okay, gotta remember, NEVER be in the middle of drinking anything when I read threads like these! (Good one, Paolo.)
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Jan 16 2010, 08:47 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Actually, to deliberately use the word "big" like that, they'd better have taken an image of a martian tripod war machine, wading through a gurgling martian gully, carrying the wreckage of both Beagle 2 and MPL in the cage beneath its belly...
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Jan 16 2010, 09:25 AM
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