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post Dec 4 2006, 09:25 PM
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NASA SCHEDULES BRIEFING TO ANNOUNCE SIGNIFICANT FIND ON MARS

WASHINGTON - NASA hosts a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Dec.
6, to present new science results from the Mars Global Surveyor. The
briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters auditorium located
at 300 E Street, S.W. in Washington and carried live on NASA
Television and www.nasa.gov.

The agency last week announced the spacecraft's mission may be at its
end. Mars Global Surveyor has served the longest and been the most
productive of any spacecraft ever sent to the red planet. Data
gathered from the mission will continue to be analyzed by scientists.


Panelists include:
- Michael Meyer -- Lead Scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA
Headquarters, Washington
- Michael Malin -- President and Chief Scientist, Malin Space Science
Systems, San Diego, Calif.
- Kenneth Edgett -- Scientist, Malin Space Science Systems
- Philip Christensen -- Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe,
Ariz.
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post Dec 6 2006, 05:10 PM
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Good old Daily Mail... can't be Michael Hanlon's piece, he knows his stuff. Some sausage-fingered staff writer has provided us with these nuggets...

NASA researchers have documented the formation of new craters on the plant's surface and found bright, light-coloured deposits in gullies that were not present in previous photos.

The "plant's " surface?!?!?!? They've spotted plants on Mars big enough to have craters on them! How the **** did the Vikings miss those?!? ohmy.gif

Earlier this week the MOC took pictures of the NASA exploration vehicle rover Spirit on the planet's surface.

MOC imaged Spirit? Wow, they kept that quiet.... Oops! Someone didn't do their research... wink.gif


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post Dec 6 2006, 05:17 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Dec 6 2006, 05:10 PM) *
Earlier this week the MOC took pictures of the NASA exploration vehicle rover Spirit on the planet's surface.

MOC imaged Spirit? Wow, they kept that quiet.... Oops! Someone didn't do their research... wink.gif


Oh, I'm not so sure of that... (though the Daily Mail, the original "fascist rag", is hardly a journal of record.) Steve Squyres did say that Spirit and environs was pretty high up the priority target lists. Unlike the VC image, I imagine there'd be no need to rush-release the image. I'm rather hoping it's both... perhaps a gully has appeared on the side of Husband Hill wink.gif

BTW - yes please, if anyone has access to NASA TV and feels like posting notes... please do! smile.gif


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post Dec 6 2006, 05:20 PM
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Sorry, I didn't insert a "sarcastic g*t" icon when I said about them keeping quiet MOC imaging Spirit... biggrin.gif


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post Dec 6 2006, 05:40 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Dec 6 2006, 05:20 PM) *
Sorry, I didn't insert a "sarcastic g*t" icon when I said about them keeping quiet MOC imaging Spirit... biggrin.gif


Oh, right, I see ... serves me right for posting without catching up with a weeks' backlog of unread posts! If only I didn't have to work, or sleep, or spend 2h a day driving...


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- Sunspot   NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows on Mars   Dec 4 2006, 09:25 PM
- - monitorlizard   The presence of Philip Christensen (PI for TES) on...   Dec 4 2006, 10:08 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (monitorlizard @ Dec 4 2006, 12:08 ...   Dec 5 2006, 04:14 PM
- - Tesheiner   I just found this while reading NASA Watch; perhap...   Dec 5 2006, 09:22 AM
- - djellison   It's impossible to know where smoke ends and f...   Dec 5 2006, 09:51 AM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 4 2006, 11:51 PM) ...   Dec 5 2006, 04:10 PM
- - Sunspot   Gullies   Dec 5 2006, 04:52 PM
- - tglotch   A few points: 1) Remember that a TES "pixel...   Dec 5 2006, 05:53 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (tglotch @ Dec 5 2006, 07:53 AM) 2)...   Dec 5 2006, 06:08 PM
|- - ugordan   This definitely sounds like it belongs to a separa...   Dec 5 2006, 06:29 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   Per Gordan's suggestion, I'll start a new ...   Dec 5 2006, 08:00 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   Leonard David has a brief blurb in his blog.   Dec 5 2006, 08:24 PM
- - volcanopele   Maybe a gully seen recently but not seen in older ...   Dec 5 2006, 08:31 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 5 2006, 10:31 AM...   Dec 6 2006, 01:03 AM
|- - JonClarke   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 6 2006, 01:03 ...   Dec 6 2006, 06:47 AM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (JonClarke @ Dec 5 2006, 08:47 PM) ...   Dec 6 2006, 04:21 PM
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|- - tuvas   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 6 2006, 09:54 ...   Dec 6 2006, 05:16 PM
|- - Stu   QUOTE (tuvas @ Dec 6 2006, 05:16 PM) Is S...   Dec 6 2006, 05:17 PM
|- - tuvas   QUOTE (Stu @ Dec 6 2006, 10:17 AM) ...   Dec 6 2006, 05:22 PM
- - Stu   Good old Daily Mail... can't be Michael Hanlon...   Dec 6 2006, 05:10 PM
|- - imipak   QUOTE (Stu @ Dec 6 2006, 05:10 PM) Earlie...   Dec 6 2006, 05:17 PM
|- - Stu   Sorry, I didn't insert a "sarcastic g*t...   Dec 6 2006, 05:20 PM
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