First Trenching On Mars |
First Trenching On Mars |
Feb 16 2004, 10:18 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 9-February 04 Member No.: 14 |
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Feb 16 2004, 10:59 PM
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Feb 17 2004, 07:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 242 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Ohio, USA Member No.: 34 |
But the debris pile to the left of the image looks about the same intensity of color as the surface sediment.
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Feb 17 2004, 11:29 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 5 |
Two-way spinning.
"Opportunity Digs; Spirit Advances "NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has scooped a trench with one of its wheels to reveal what is below the surface of a selected patch of soil. "Yesterday we dug a nice big hole on Mars," said Jeffrey Biesiadecki, a rover planner at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "The rover alternately pushed soil forward and backward out of the trench with its right front wheel while other wheels held the rover in place. The rover turned slightly between bouts of digging to widen the hole. "We took a patient, gentle approach to digging," Biesiadecki said. The process lasted 22 minutes. if you look, there's also a mound on the right, and that's where the pale soil extends out of the trench, and has been rolled over as the Rover extricated itself. -------------------- - Nick
===================================== Nick Hoffman Mars Specialist 3D-GEO Pty Ltd Melbourne Australia http://whitemars.com "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) ===================================== |
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