Duck Bay, New update from Steve |
Duck Bay, New update from Steve |
Sep 20 2006, 05:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 122 Joined: 26-June 04 From: Austria Member No.: 89 |
Hello all !
The next steps described by Steve : http://athena.cornell.edu/news/mubss/ Interesting new software capabilities also ! Robert PS: new topic because Duck Bay is the point where Oppys pancams should take the ultimate shot of Victoria |
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Sep 21 2006, 09:53 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3009 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
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Sep 21 2006, 10:07 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
"...naming prominent features along the rim after places visited by the Victoria during the first circumnavigation of the Earth."
Steve Squyres Did anyone find a relation between Duck Bay and Magellan's voyage?...I didn't...There is one (Baía dos Patos) in Santa Catarina (Brazil) but I don't know if the expedition passed there... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Sep 21 2006, 12:56 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 91 Joined: 27-January 05 From: Arlington, Virginia Member No.: 159 |
Did anyone find a relation between Duck Bay and Magellan's voyage?...I didn't...There is one (Baía dos Patos) in Santa Catarina (Brazil) but I don't know if the expedition passed there... Having just read a book on Magellan's circumnavigation (or rather his fleet's circumnavigation), I believe they are referring to Bahia de los Patos in Argentina (he named it in Portuguese) somewhere around 48 degrees South. The "ducks" actually turned out to be Penguins. Fascinating book BTW. |
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Sep 21 2006, 01:44 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 136 Joined: 13-October 05 From: Malibu, CA Member No.: 527 |
Thanks for that babakm! That's it!: I was looking for a connection in Argentina, because of Patagonia... In Portuguese is Baía dos Patos and I couldn't found anything... The name (bahia - pronounced ba-'i-a, h not pronounced, stress on second syllable) is an archaic spelling of the Portuguese word meaning "bay" and comes from "a baía de Todos os Santos" (All Saints' Bay...) (Bahia is a state of Brazil...) Don't know if it's relevant, but it seems the name Duck's Bay couldn't be any clearer with Odave's drawing of the duck! |
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Sep 21 2006, 08:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 646 Joined: 23-December 05 From: Forest of Dean Member No.: 617 |
The name (bahia - pronounced ba-'i-a, h not pronounced, stress on second syllable) is an archaic spelling of the Portuguese word meaning "bay" and comes from "a baía de Todos os Santos" (All Saints' Bay...) (Bahia is a state of Brazil...) Monstrously off-topic -sorry- but: there's a flamenco song 'Bahia de Cadiz', by Camaron and Paco de Lucia... recorded in the late 70s. (Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about Theoretical or Applied Spanish!) -------------------- --
Viva software libre! |
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Sep 21 2006, 09:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Monstrously off-topic -sorry- but: there's a flamenco song 'Bahia de Cadiz', by Camaron and Paco de Lucia... recorded in the late 70s. (Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about Theoretical or Applied Spanish!) Yes, Monstrously off-topic Flamingos are NOT ducks -------------------- |
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Sep 21 2006, 10:11 PM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
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