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What's the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT?
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post Jan 16 2010, 08:03 PM
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Yeah, I was thinking that my pet hope (hot spring) would probably have to have supporting CRISM data, if the resolution of the latter was sufficient enough to provide supporting evidence (presumably chemical 'staining' of the immediate area). Switching my money to MPL/Beagle.


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post Jan 16 2010, 08:03 PM
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... after working my meager sources for info I have nothing... My hope it that they imaged the Mars 3 lander (sprawled out, laying on its side after a hard landing)


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post Jan 16 2010, 08:08 PM
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Any of the lost landers would definitely be a major coup, but as Stu pointed out also only of extreme interest to the science community & aficianados such as ourselves, not the general public. That could make it Twitter-worthy but not cross the threshold of sounding trumpets.


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post Jan 16 2010, 08:52 PM
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It's not pregnant, is it?

It's got to be disappointing.
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post Jan 16 2010, 08:55 PM
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QUOTE (remcook @ Jan 16 2010, 08:52 PM) *
It's not pregnant, is it?


laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif

Whatever it is, it's going to be disapointing after that!


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post Jan 16 2010, 09:13 PM
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laugh.gif ...yeah, the headline "Mars Orbiter Transforms Into Von Neumann Machine" would DEFINITELY merit a press conference, at least...


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post Jan 16 2010, 09:37 PM
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I remember that a Crism scientist once said that Crism would be able to detect a stromatolitic mat on Mars. Perhaps MRO has detected life on Mars?
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post Jan 16 2010, 09:39 PM
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Speaking of stromatolites, could it be related to this?

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/17/th...us-mars-mounds/


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post Jan 16 2010, 09:57 PM
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In order to reduce the peril of going astray, suggest everyone review the forum guidelines (esp. rule 1.3)...and, in any case, I would put the odds of some sort of biological discovery from HiRISE at basically zero.


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post Jan 17 2010, 01:00 AM
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QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Jan 16 2010, 11:58 AM) *
Because this is a HiRISE-only thing, I'm thinking it's not likely to be publication-related, since that would usually be coordinated with the rest of the MRO payload (and yes, there are other instruments on MRO. Sigh.)

And frankly, IMHO this is not a very professional way to "announce" anything.


Hopefully it's not *another* case of something that CTX pointed out to them (or that MOC already saw) that they're taking credit for... rolleyes.gif


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post Jan 17 2010, 01:38 AM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 16 2010, 02:55 PM) *
Whatever it is, it's going to be disapointing after that!

They've located Al Capone's vault?
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post Jan 17 2010, 02:04 AM
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QUOTE (alan @ Jan 16 2010, 05:38 PM) *
They've located Al Capone's vault?


Nah, it's Elvis, didn't you know he lives in the Face?


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post Jan 17 2010, 02:42 AM
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Out of curiosity can they lower MRO orbit in the future to increase resolution?
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post Jan 17 2010, 03:07 AM
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I kinda doubt it. The mapping orbit is something like 250 km altitude, think going any lower would be prohibitively expensive in terms of propellent expenditure to stay aloft due to atmospheric drag.


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post Jan 17 2010, 03:13 AM
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QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 16 2010, 07:07 PM) *
The mapping orbit is something like 250 km altitude...

255 x 320 km, and no, there are no plans to lower it.


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