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post Feb 11 2005, 08:11 AM
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Here is an updated map of the road to Vostok.
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post Feb 11 2005, 02:39 PM
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Jason, Alvin, and Argo are names of deep sea submersibles, what are they doing on Mars? unsure.gif Will they be continuing with this theme for the crater names?
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post Feb 11 2005, 03:05 PM
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QUOTE (alan @ Feb 11 2005, 02:39 PM)
Jason, Alvin, and Argo are names of deep sea submersibles, what are they doing on Mars? unsure.gif Will they be continuing with this theme for the crater names?

And what were the submersibles named after wink.gif

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post Feb 11 2005, 04:47 PM
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Well, Jason was the guy that got the Golden Fleece, and his ship was named Argo.
http://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/asrc/readwrit/jason.html

I have no idea what Alvin has to do with them biggrin.gif , but here comes Google :

The connection is Robert Ballard, the Undersea Explorer, who also served in a submarine called Alvin, before establishing the Jason-Argo project.
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post Feb 11 2005, 06:57 PM
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QUOTE (alan @ Feb 11 2005, 06:39 AM)
Jason, Alvin, and Argo are names of deep sea submersibles, what are they doing on Mars? unsure.gif Will they be continuing with this theme for the crater names?

Well, maybe after Alvin they will name the next two Simon and Theodore.
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post Feb 11 2005, 07:09 PM
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Notwithstanding the Chipmunks...

According to http://www.sciencenetwork.com/turner/rdt-bio.html, Al Vine, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, is the designer and namesake of Alvin.

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post Feb 11 2005, 07:58 PM
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QUOTE (TheChemist @ Feb 11 2005, 09:47 AM)
Well, Jason was the guy that got the Golden Fleece, and his ship was named Argo.
http://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/asrc/readwrit/jason.html

I have no idea what Alvin has to do with them biggrin.gif , but here comes Google :

The connection is Robert Ballard, the Undersea Explorer, who also served in a submarine called Alvin, before establishing the Jason-Argo project.

well obviously the crater Jason was named after me biggrin.gif

And the crater Jason on Phoebe was also named after me biggrin.gif


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post Feb 13 2005, 10:02 PM
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For what it's worth, I've been inside Alvin.

This was in 1985, when I was working as a diver on an expedition to Saipan in the Marianas, to find a Spanish galleon that had sunk in 1638. I was walking along the dock, and there it was. I sweet-talked my way aboard.

They were there to look at the weird colonies of creatures that had just been discovered around the deep-water volcanic vents, the 'smokers'. They had lots and lots of film that they had taken, and gave me an undeveloped roll!

Altogether, a very exciting afternoon.
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post Feb 20 2005, 06:12 AM
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Alvin
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...36P1617R0M1.JPG


Jason
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...36P1617R0M1.JPG
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post Feb 20 2005, 06:55 AM
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Another view of Alvin as it was passed (looks very similar to Eagle):

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...19P1772L0M1.JPG
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post Feb 20 2005, 07:07 AM
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I updated the "Heatshield to Vostok" map. Hopefully we'll see another long drive in the next day or two.
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post Feb 20 2005, 10:12 PM
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Endurance Crater is only just visible in the rear hazcam images now

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P1315L0M1.JPG
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post Feb 20 2005, 10:30 PM
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Outcrop material without a crater or crack? First subtle signs of the etched terrain?

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...03P0711L0M1.JPG
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post Feb 20 2005, 11:02 PM
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Is that another crater visible in the distance?
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post Feb 21 2005, 06:28 PM
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Obsessed - perhaps we're seeing some ancient ejecta that are in the process of being buried or exumed.
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