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Here is an updated map of the road to Vostok.
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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?
 Will they be continuing with this theme for the crater names?
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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? Will they be continuing with this theme for the crater names?And what were the submersibles named after  Doug |
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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  , 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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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? Will they be continuing with this theme for the crater names?Well, maybe after Alvin they will name the next two Simon and Theodore.
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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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. You learn something new every day! -------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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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 , 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 And the crater Jason on Phoebe was also named after me
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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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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Feb 20 2005, 06:12 AM
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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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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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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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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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Feb 20 2005, 11:02 PM
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Is that another crater visible in the distance?
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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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