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Posted by: djellison Apr 19 2005, 09:02 AM

http://athena1.cornell.edu/news/mubss/

I was just nosing around the Athena site ploughing thru old bookmarks and stumbled across a new update from Steve - sounds like our plight as long suffering information junkies has been heard. Big thanks to Steve for taking the time to keep us updated - and long may they last!

Doug

Posted by: TheChemist Apr 19 2005, 11:23 AM

Thanks for the link Doug.
The Methuselah story is prety interesting
He lived to be 969 years old, and was the grandfather of Noe (flood hint )
Was the naming a coincidence ?
Anyway, I looked at Sol 454 pancams and was unable to locate it. Anyone else tried ?

"For Spirit, the big news is that we've interrupted our climb of Husband Hill to take a look at a fantastic new outcrop that we've named Methuselah. We just spotted Methuselah this past weekend, in some Pancam images that we took on Sol 454. It's a spectacular outcrop of layered rock, perhaps the best that Spirit has yet seen. It'll take a few sols of driving to get to it, but once we're there we're expecting to work it over pretty thoroughly. After 400+ sols in Gusev crater we've finally started seeing some real stratigraphy, and we think that Methuselah may have some very interesting stories to tell. "

Posted by: Sunspot Apr 19 2005, 11:41 AM

I haven't visited that site in many months...I used to all the time up until the time the rovers landed then switched to the JPL/Exploratorium sites beacuse they had all the pictures

So where's Methuselah?.......I guess it's not the feature they've ben parked in front of the past few days.

This is probably it:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/454/2P166656300EFFA9BGP2402L7M1.HTML

Maybe we should move this to the Spirit section........

Posted by: Sunspot Apr 19 2005, 07:14 PM

I wonder if anyone at New Scientist magazine reads these forums:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7284

Posted by: remcook Apr 20 2005, 08:59 AM

I am absolutely sure at least someone does

Posted by: djellison Apr 20 2005, 09:07 AM

Oh - you would be amazed who visits this place.


Doug

Posted by: jaredGalen Apr 20 2005, 12:09 PM

Aw, why did you have to say that?! Now I have an overwhelming urge to find out!!
Go on, give us an idea. I won't ask for names for obvious reasons. Give us some general occupations perhaps?

jG

Posted by: djellison Apr 20 2005, 12:24 PM

lips=sealed

Posted by: jaredGalen Apr 20 2005, 05:39 PM