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 Jul 20 2006, 07:57 AM
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QUOTE (SkyeLab @ Jul 17 2006, 03:01 PM)  ExoMars prototype on show at Farnborough Air Show. Brian Saw it there yesterday. Also picked up bunches of leaflets- will see if there's anything new in them (didn't have time to ask questions). |
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Jul 20 2006, 06:02 PM
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they have live feeds from the "pancam" -
I call this one "A Space Enthusiast Makes His Move" Watch those hands, mister!  
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"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jul 20 2006, 06:11 PM
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QUOTE (lyford @ Jul 20 2006, 08:02 AM) they have live feeds from the "pancam" - I call this one "A Space Enthusiast Makes His Move" Or "After Struggle, Rover (Groper) Finally Reaches Shoulder on the way to Twin Peaks." |
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Jul 21 2006, 12:48 AM
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I'd have to characterize this as an assisted encounter: using an intermediate body for trajectory adjustment...
-------------------- 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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Jul 21 2006, 01:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
I hope this doesn't devolve into another "near one far one" debate.....
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jul 21 2006, 03:42 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I just want some of you imagery wizards to tell us which of the Twin Peaks is larger, or at least which protrudes more... or are we seeing a rare instance of Nature's perfection, and each mound is exactly the same size?
 -the other Doug -------------------- The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. -Mark Twain
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Jul 21 2006, 05:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Apparently the webcam is following standard ESA image release guidelines....
"Updating every 10 seconds" and the same pic is still up there from this morning! (Or has that exhibit closed?) EDIT - FIxed link to pic in earlier post. I guess it's back to being updated - good thing I got a screen grab of our friends - seems the archive is no longer there. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Aug 1 2006, 11:22 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Berlin Member No.: 744 |
Oh, it seems there is a lot more to that image! If we shift our attention away from the twin peaks and towards the FACE of the guy, we can easily see that the one behind him is also busy attempting to perform a sort of a Vulcan mind meld :-)
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Nov 6 2006, 08:45 AM
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QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jun 22 2006, 08:07 AM) Here's the cover of ESA BUlletin we talked about ( FREE copies available via ESA publications ) http://www.esa.int/esaMI/ESA_Publications/index.html nice looking rover |
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Nov 10 2006, 11:44 PM
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The BBC is reporting that the Exomars launch is being pushed back to 2013
 but that it may now include an orbiter.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6133712.stm James -------------------- |
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Dec 15 2006, 01:24 PM
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There's a new report out of Canada (www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/14/mars-rover.html, or can access through Nasawatch site) that the Canadian government has refused to give the financial support needed for Canadian companies to build the Exomars rover. Canada was ESA's first and best choice because of their expertise in robotics, so this has sort of left ESA in the lurch. This is bad news for the United States. We've been world leader in program management incompetence for decades, and this seriously threaterns our status.
Seriously, though, the article stated that Exomars was Euope's "planned mission to Mars by 2015". It's unclear from the wording whether they meant launch by 2015 or landing by 2015. 2011 was baseline for a long while, with 2013 as backup, then recently 2013 became the most likely launch. Could the launch be pushed back another two years? |
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Dec 15 2006, 02:04 PM
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Eejits!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Dec 15 2006, 02:32 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 15 2006, 02:04 PM) Eejits! Phil In good portuguese: F...-se!...  In the article there is a reference to a possible brain drain... Shouldn't ESA enter in the race?... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Dec 15 2006, 03:36 PM
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The Canadian announcement is a real blow to this program...I suspect it will push the launch to 2017 or later--if it even continues.
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 Dec 15 2006, 06:29 PM
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Sig!
It's a real deception... Can we expect to make a real Mars exploration in these conditions? Whereas the European Union of the 25 is the first power of the world, just before the USA. But, European Space Agency is like a poor face to NASA. 2013... We can say never! We push, we push, we push and during this time, we can only dream by seeing the synthetics pictures of the rover (more build than the MER...). This make me angry from the Europe. All this technocrates wo don't have any interest of the space and the science and who can prefer to pay there attention to... to what? So, this fact reveal clearly the Europe status : no goal, no way. No target are fix for the future. We can't stay with this semi-mesure Europe. A lots of project will stay write on the paper, in this time, America have landed on Mars with men and women. I say it all the time : make the United States of Europe. Or stop it and come back to a pre-war situation when the countries made their own small project. Sorry about that, but, for me, it's too. -------------------- |
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