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[Guest_Bobby_*]

http://www.planetary.org/news/2006/0831_Ma...ate_Spirit.html

[CosmicRocker]

A sequel will definitely be in order at some point in the future. These machines are clearly examples of some of the finest devices yet created by our species. Engineers...no matter how much you want to hate them, in the end, you've got to love them. I still cannot believe how beautifully both of the rovers have peformed this long time, under very harsh conditions. My hat is off to the people who worried about the details.

Regarding the crater names, it does appear that Epsilon is Emma Dean, since the yellow line on a previously posted travel map "sideswipes" Epsilon, and that line so far remains pretty close to the route travelled to this point. Beyond that, I have no guesses for the other crater names.

[Stephen]

Regarding the crater names, it does appear that Epsilon is Emma Dean, since the yellow line on a previously posted travel map "sideswipes" Epsilon, and that line so far remains pretty close to the route travelled to this point.

Is that Epsilon/Emma Dean they are now "sideswiping" in the latest exploratorium images such as:

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...23P0685R0M1.JPG

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Stephen

[dvandorn]

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...23P0685R0M1.JPG

You know, this image is another example of a Mars that looks unlike any other place on Mars we've ever seen. The Viking landing sites, the Pathfinder site, even Gusev -- they're all rocky, to one degree or another.

This place -- this is eerily unlike anything else.

Gives you an appreciation, deep in your gut, of how widely varied a planet Mars actually is.

This is the kind of thing that really excites my sense of wonder...

-the other Doug