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Dec 17 2010, 02:21 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 14-January 07 From: France Member No.: 1602 |
Oh my God! It's like Opportunity has landed all over again!
Tonight, I'm (nearly) seven years younger! What a beautiful christmas gift for 2010 from Oppy and Mars!!! |
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Dec 17 2010, 02:23 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
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Dec 17 2010, 03:09 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
It's times like this that I feel lucky just to be alive right now.
Thank you for your skill & dedication, MER Team, and as always deepest gratitude & admiration for our enormously talented UMSF members who make Mars come alive for us all every day. In a just world, this first peek into SM would be on the front page of every paper on this planet. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 17 2010, 03:33 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 14-January 07 From: France Member No.: 1602 |
UNNECESSARY QUOTING REMOVED - ADMIN
That's just the way I feel Nprev; privileged! So great to be living in 2010 and discover Mars in its primeval state! In 200 years from now, humans will be living out there and the planet will be no more the one that Oppy is showing us right now. Thanks so much to the MER team and the UMSF members for these wonderful seven years!! |
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Dec 17 2010, 04:19 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
A bit more detail about the SE rim of Santa Maria here.
QUOTE One planned target area is at Santa Maria's southeast rim. The red circle marked there on Figure 1 indicates the pixel size and location of an observation by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that has piqued researchers' interest. The spectrum recorded by CRISM for this spot, unlike the spectrum recorded for the place indicated by the blue circle on the floor of the crater, suggests what might be a water-bearing sulfate mineral. Although Opportunity has detected such minerals on the surface during its nearly seven years on Mars, none have been detected from orbit at a place visited by Opportunity.
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Dec 17 2010, 04:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
OMG I CAN'T *clink* BELIEVE HOW *clink* BEAUTIFUL THE *clink* *clink* clink* *clink* VIEW!!!!
That's for the swear jar, not the Funding UMSF thread -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Dec 17 2010, 04:48 AM
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I think of all the Craters Opportunity has visited. This one might become my favorite. It's Amazing.
Way to Go Opportunity, JPL & Nasa and all the awesome people here at UMSF with all the great updates, Pictures and more. Merry Christmas early. |
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Dec 17 2010, 05:57 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 25-June 06 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 934 |
Very Nice! Congrats to the MER Team. While the bigger prize is just over the hill, this is just amazing fantastic to reach here when a few years ago it was likely considered impossible. Yet more to catalog in the Great Voyage of Opportunity.
Karl B long time daily spectator and fan of everyone here at UMSF |
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Dec 17 2010, 07:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
AMAZING crater ! I didn't had the time to post here, but when I can, I do. Glad you're still there Ant, I was missing your input. -------------------- |
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Dec 17 2010, 07:52 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 809 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Brittany, France Member No.: 79 |
WHAO !!! That's the kind of landscape I was dreaming of during the era of Pathfinder and Sojourner. Congrats again to the MER team !
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Dec 17 2010, 08:14 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
Wow! And love the image of the 'opposite side' as well, with Oppy slaloming those rocks.
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Dec 17 2010, 08:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1084 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
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Dec 17 2010, 09:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Silesia Member No.: 299 |
-------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Dec 17 2010, 10:18 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 547 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
Peter, did you mean to give us a better image or a link to that? It's tiny...
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Dec 17 2010, 10:25 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
That's the view I'm REALLY looking forward to Peter, thanks for the preview I think those dunes blown up against the northern wal are going to look stunning... l
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