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What's the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT?
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post Jan 16 2010, 01:15 AM
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Stay tuned, HiFans, we'll be making a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT next Wednesday...! :-o

Hmmm... is it literally something BIG, or maybe they found MPL?
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post Jan 16 2010, 02:05 AM
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Terrible teases, aren't they? What a way to drive us nuts. Frankly, given this tease, if they don't announce they've definitively found MPL or Beagle 2 or evidence that Phoenix tried to walk south for the winter (kidding) I'll feel disappointed!


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post Jan 16 2010, 02:54 AM
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A direct tie in with unmannedspaceflight.com? laugh.gif


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post Jan 16 2010, 03:56 AM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 16 2010, 01:05 PM) *
... Phoenix tried to walk south for the winter ...

Nah, snowboarding south!


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post Jan 16 2010, 04:08 AM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 15 2010, 06:05 PM) *
or evidence that Phoenix tried to walk south for the winter


Maybe Phoenix did one-arm pushups to keep warm all winter.


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post Jan 16 2010, 04:26 AM
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Maybe they discovered water on Mars! laugh.gif blink.gif
More seriously, I'm guessing it's MPL or Beagle 2 as well. I don't really know what else could come from HiRise to warrant an all-caps big announcement. I'm faintly thinking something about the methane sources, but I don't see how it could have been done with HiRise, unless... they imaged a bunch of animals running about. rolleyes.gif


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post Jan 16 2010, 05:42 AM
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QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jan 15 2010, 08:26 PM) *
Maybe they discovered water on Mars! laugh.gif blink.gif

Hungry4info, I hate your suggestion, because seriously, you might be right.


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post Jan 16 2010, 05:57 AM
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Why are we waiting? smile.gif


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post Jan 16 2010, 06:32 AM
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How many times has water on Mars been discovered? It must be over a dozen by now. tongue.gif

I hope it does turn out to be one of the lost landers. That would be quite cool news. smile.gif
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post Jan 16 2010, 06:47 AM
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If it IS water, it'd better be an active geyser or a hot spring! wink.gif


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post Jan 16 2010, 08:18 AM
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I hope it isn't just the discovery of MPL or Beagle, because the press might crucify them for that - for us it would be cool, true, but finding the wreckage of a dead, failed probe would not be a "big" thing for serious media or the general public, surely?

No, I think this has to be water related.

Hey! Maybe they found some trees! Oh, wait... rolleyes.gif


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post Jan 16 2010, 08:22 AM
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or combining all three main themes (old spacecraft, liquid water and life) perhaps they imaged a Martian dog taking a leak on the MPL wreck...
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post Jan 16 2010, 08:29 AM
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laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif...okay, gotta remember, NEVER be in the middle of drinking anything when I read threads like these! (Good one, Paolo.)


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Actually, to deliberately use the word "big" like that, they'd better have taken an image of a martian tripod war machine, wading through a gurgling martian gully, carrying the wreckage of both Beagle 2 and MPL in the cage beneath its belly... smile.gif


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post Jan 16 2010, 09:25 AM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 16 2010, 05:42 AM) *
Hungry4info, I hate your suggestion, because seriously, you might be right.


I think it's an annual event now.
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