The western route, 5th leg after stop at Absecon / Reeds Bay |
The western route, 5th leg after stop at Absecon / Reeds Bay |
Jul 11 2009, 05:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Time for a new thread.
After moving southwards for ages, the "detour" by the western path has started with a 60+ meters drive on sol 1942. There are no images yet --they should be available on the next update-- so this image was calculated solely based on the rover's mobility info. I'll update the route map later. |
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Jul 30 2009, 05:56 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
Now, there's an interesting comparison, Tom.
How does the discovery rate of meteorites by the MERs compare with that of the Apollo moonwalkers? Are there lessons here for learning, or is it "apples vs. oranges"? -------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Jul 30 2009, 11:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 206 Joined: 15-August 07 From: Shrewsbury, Shropshire Member No.: 3233 |
Now, there's an interesting comparison, Tom. How does the discovery rate of meteorites by the MERs compare with that of the Apollo moonwalkers? Are there lessons here for learning, or is it "apples vs. oranges"? So far as I know none of the rocks collected by the Apollo astronauts have been identified as meteorites from elsewhere. However, this does not mean that every sample of lunar regolith has been examined for small fragments of exotic rocks.: http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/regolith_breccia.htm I believe that many of the contributors to UMSF are geologists working for universities. Presumably NASA would respond favourably to those geologists if they requested a few ccs of lunar regolith to look for exotic rock fragments. Perhaps in the Apollo samples somewhere there is a tiny fragment of an Earth meteorite. Perhaps a "moondust@home" web site could be set up along the lines of the "stardust@home" web site where members of the public could scrutinise a million fragments from the lunar regolith looking for something interesting. EDIT: One implication of looking for fragments of Earth meteorites in samples of the lunar regolith is to prove that the Earth rock actually came from the Moon and did not represent contamination back on Earth. To overcome this problem the investigation would have to be done in clean room conditions. (Admin edit. It's best to not cite this place as umsf dot com, as that's actually a functioning, different website that google will pick up on. Just UMSF - or the full URL, but don't turn the acronym into a URL) |
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