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Dec 15 2010, 11:17 PM
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think it deserves a topic on its own
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Guest_Bobby_* |
Dec 17 2010, 04:48 AM
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I think of all the Craters Opportunity has visited. This one might become my favorite. It's Amazing.
Way to Go Opportunity, JPL & Nasa and all the awesome people here at UMSF with all the great updates, Pictures and more. Merry Christmas early. |
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Guest_Oersted_* |
Dec 17 2010, 11:23 AM
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I think of all the Craters Opportunity has visited. This one might become my favorite. It's Amazing. That's just what I felt two days ago (in the old thread): "When I see this, I'm just thinking: "The Perfect Crater". I feel like a food critic who just tasted the perfect... ratatouille.. - Not too big, not too small, interesting topography, eminently navigable inclines, easily approachable rocks, untreachorous solid surface: Perfection. Add to that: a rover team which has reached driving and science operation excellence, a deep space network that's not just a network but is more like a Swiss clockwork, and finally a fast-working second-to-none imaging team at UMSF! These are good times indeed. Now I just hope Mars doesn't throw us a curve-ball. But even if she does, the MER team will deal with that splendidly, I'm sure." ---- I must add that by eminently navigable inclines I meant the ones outside the crater itself, because I concur with what others are saying in this thread. We shouldn't try to go into this one! BTW, do anybody remember the discussions the team first had back at Endurance? - "Should we go in for the science, even if we can't get out again?" I must say that Steve Squyres took the right approach: "no way, we must be able to get out!" I personally questioned that approach at Victoria, because I felt there was SO much to see, but I was wrong and this arrival at Santa Maria is the proof! |
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