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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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Dec 19 2010, 08:54 PM
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I would like to say thanks to all the awesome people in this room discussing what's going on here at Santa Marie. I also would like to say to all the photo guru's that your all doing a great job with the Pictures I'm seeing here. I'm looking for a background image for my laptop here. Any suggestion to what image might fit a laptop screen perfect?
My next question. Has there been any discussion regarding what type of science we might do here. I have a feeling we are going to drive around the whole crater and I see only one area on the far side where we could drive in just a little. I can see us looking at a few rocks, bedrock, soil sample and more. I think we will be here until March before we head east? Should I start another post called Science at Santa Marie? Thanks and Happy Holidays everyone. |
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Dec 20 2010, 12:47 AM
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Any suggestion to what image might fit a laptop screen perfect? Bobby, try Ant 103's gorgeous color pan on the page above your question. C'est magnifique!. And Stu, I love your close-ups of Crocodile Tail. It appears that little block on the ground to the left of the main rock was dislodged from the brighter spot on the upper left of Crocoldile Tail. It evidently didn't come off when the rock first fell there. The weathering is much lighter where it came off. So it must have broken off much later. But as Oersted pointed out, erosion and weathering are very slow on Mars. What would have caused that piece of the rock to break off? Could a minor meteoroid have done the trick? Or is it the Occam's Razor hypothesis: it was weakened and perhaps fractured when it first landed, and the eons of erosion finally caused it to separate from the parent rock? David |
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