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 Dec 23 2004, 11:39 PM
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Happy birthday to me...
 Happy birthday, to me...  Happy birthday dear meeeeeee...  Happy birthday to me   (Went to the a local zoo that is big on Primates - they're great to sit and watch. Somehow, nice though lizards and giraffes and elephants and rhinos are - they dont play to the camera like these guys - that was the best pic I took today  )I got what I wanted A book on Donald Campbell, Jeremy Clarksons new book, a panorama of the heatshield - AND - we went to see the monkeys. Doesnt take much to make this 26 year old happy ;P Just $850M of rover and a couple of monkeys.Doug |
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Dec 24 2004, 12:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Central California Member No.: 45 |
Happy birthday Doug, didn't realize you were such a pup (26? ain't nothin'...
 )I was trying to get the 3d's I did up, but from work I don't have any ftp space to access, damn Yahoo pictures is mostly useless... I disagree with Akuo's assessment that Oppy could dig something similar with its wheels...in the 3d images the crater looks a bit deeper than the wheels. I hope we get a lot of close up shots of the crater. Anyway, I've got a link to my 3d images, though they aren't much different than the ones Doug posted so you're ok if you pass... Eric's version of the 3d images of the heatshield Eric P / MizarKey -------------------- Eric P / MizarKey
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Dec 24 2004, 12:10 AM
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Hope you had a nice Birthday Doug
 I like this image from the navcam...the small dunes look like snakes heading towards the rim of Endurance. 
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Dec 24 2004, 01:22 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 23 2004, 11:39 PM) Doesnt take much to make this 26 year old happy ;P Just $850M of rover and a couple of monkeys. At least it isn't 850 million dollars worth of monkeys! Happy Birthday and thanks for all the great pics on this board.
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"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Dec 24 2004, 01:40 AM
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It's been very clear from the start of MER-B's explorations on Meridiani Plain that the plain is a very thin layer of basalt sand mixed with Blueberries, spread over a flat sheet of underlying sedimentary bedrock. What's happening -- as Ray Arvidson predicted in advance from MGS' orbital observations -- is that the sand has blown in from other places and is slowly eroding away the rock layer from the top down, powderizing the soft matrix rock and leaving a residue of Blueberries mixed with the immigrant sand. But of course once the thickness of the sand layer builds up beyond a certain point it stops the erosion process until some of the built-up sand blows back out of Meridiani and the erosion resumes -- so the overlying sand/Blueberry layer will ALWAYS be very thin. (I wonder how many Blueberries are mixed with the sand that's blown all the way through Meridiani and out the downwind side?)
That circular impact mark makes it clear that the heat shield came down flat on the surface and then bounced -- whereas the Genesis capsule, which was wobbling greatly during its fall, apparently came down on one edge. |
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Dec 24 2004, 10:24 AM
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QUOTE (Sunspot @ Dec 24 2004, 12:10 AM) I like this image from the navcam...the small dunes look like snakes heading towards the rim of Endurance. Finally the truth is out - Oppy landed on Arrakis. Those aren't small dunes, they're sandworms...!
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Dec 24 2004, 10:51 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Dec 24 2004, 01:40 AM) That circular impact mark makes it clear that the heat shield came down flat on the surface and then bounced -- whereas the Genesis capsule, which was wobbling greatly during its fall, apparently came down on one edge. Hands up if you've gone to the top of your stairs and taken the heatshielf from the MPF Hotwheels pack and dropped it to see if it always lands the same way Warning. Castor Sugar+Drinking Chocolat experimentation may follow Doug |
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Dec 24 2004, 11:29 AM
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 I assume this will be part of a 3 x 2 mosaic or something like that within the next 24 hrs or so. I'm very much AFK from tomorrow thru to probably Dec 31st - so unless the rest of that mosaic comes down tonight - then it'll have to wait Doug |
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Dec 24 2004, 01:59 PM
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In what image does it show Opps heading after the heat sheild observations?
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Dec 24 2004, 02:29 PM
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This sort of direction
 Due south basically Doug |
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Dec 24 2004, 04:46 PM
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Latest shot of the heatshield is at http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...A3P2359L7M1.JPG . The sun's reflection off the interior is so bright that it's saturated a large part of the photo; but one can clearly see little shattered bits of the heatshield scattered around the landing area.
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Dec 24 2004, 05:07 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I wonder what one of those springs would fetch on Ebay
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Dec 24 2004, 05:13 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 24 2004, 10:07 AM) I wonder what one of those springs would fetch on Ebay Doug You mean *after* someone brings them back from Mars? 
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Dec 24 2004, 05:25 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
'Buyer Collects'
Actually - didnt the RSA sell one of its lunakhod rovers for a few thousand $'s - with the 'Buyer Collects' proviso? Doug |
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Dec 24 2004, 05:44 PM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
In that case the heck with the spring, go with the whole rover
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