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Jason, Alvin, and Argo are names of deep sea submersibles, what are they doing on Mars?
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QUOTE (alan @ Feb 11 2005, 02:39 PM) Jason, Alvin, and Argo are names of deep sea submersibles, what are they doing on Mars? ![]() And what were the submersibles named after ![]() Doug |
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Well, Jason was the guy that got the Golden Fleece, and his ship was named Argo.
http://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/asrc/readwrit/jason.html I have no idea what Alvin has to do with them ![]() The connection is Robert Ballard, the Undersea Explorer, who also served in a submarine called Alvin, before establishing the Jason-Argo project. |
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QUOTE (alan @ Feb 11 2005, 06:39 AM) Jason, Alvin, and Argo are names of deep sea submersibles, what are they doing on Mars? ![]() Well, maybe after Alvin they will name the next two Simon and Theodore. ![]() -------------------- Lyford Rome
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Notwithstanding the Chipmunks...
According to http://www.sciencenetwork.com/turner/rdt-bio.html, Al Vine, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, is the designer and namesake of Alvin. You learn something new every day! -------------------- Jonathan Ward
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QUOTE (TheChemist @ Feb 11 2005, 09:47 AM) Well, Jason was the guy that got the Golden Fleece, and his ship was named Argo. http://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/asrc/readwrit/jason.html I have no idea what Alvin has to do with them ![]() The connection is Robert Ballard, the Undersea Explorer, who also served in a submarine called Alvin, before establishing the Jason-Argo project. well obviously the crater Jason was named after me ![]() And the crater Jason on Phoebe was also named after me ![]() -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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For what it's worth, I've been inside Alvin.
This was in 1985, when I was working as a diver on an expedition to Saipan in the Marianas, to find a Spanish galleon that had sunk in 1638. I was walking along the dock, and there it was. I sweet-talked my way aboard. They were there to look at the weird colonies of creatures that had just been discovered around the deep-water volcanic vents, the 'smokers'. They had lots and lots of film that they had taken, and gave me an undeveloped roll! Altogether, a very exciting afternoon. |
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Another view of Alvin as it was passed (looks very similar to Eagle):
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...19P1772L0M1.JPG |
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Endurance Crater is only just visible in the rear hazcam images now
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P1315L0M1.JPG |
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Outcrop material without a crater or crack? First subtle signs of the etched terrain?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...03P0711L0M1.JPG |
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Is that another crater visible in the distance?
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Obsessed - perhaps we're seeing some ancient ejecta that are in the process of being buried or exumed.
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