Sol 150+, Time marches on... |
Sol 150+, Time marches on... |
Oct 27 2008, 09:22 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Sol 150 raws are up so this seems like a good time to start a new thread...
Hang on in there Phoenix... -------------------- |
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Oct 30 2008, 07:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Silesia Member No.: 299 |
No, that was just clean up. Thanks Deimos, I had hope that my assumption is erroneous. I have great hope that now, after the completion of work by RA and TEGA, the Happy Pan will be continued. Greetings to the whole team. Thank you for everything you have already done. -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Oct 30 2008, 09:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1443 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
I'll side with Stu on this one.
Sure, It'll be sad to see Phoenix go, but when it comes, it comes. We've all known it will die over the winter. Perhaps since we've always known that it'll die from the cold, we've all been preparing ourselves for the inevitable. And perhaps, the rovers are easier for us to identify with. Spirit and Opportunity look alive. The Pancam looks like eyes, the robotic arm is... an arm... and so on. We find it easier to sympathize with the MER rovers than we do a tabletop lander with a bunch of instruments on it. With MER, we can go out and explore, with Phoenix, we're stuck in one spot. I'll be sad to see it go, but I won't shed a tear. When one of the MER's die, then I'll probably be a bit tearful. My mother says that praying for a successful launch is silly, "It's just an inanimate object" she says. Oh she has no idea... -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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