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Nov 29 2010, 08:27 PM
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-------------------- Protein structures and Mars fun - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick960/
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Nov 29 2010, 09:19 PM
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Some Santa Maria-related thoughts from Steve Squyres...
http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2010/...ing-santa-maria -------------------- |
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Nov 29 2010, 09:39 PM
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Always nice to hear from Steve
One funny thing. Your Wikipedia link says: The term is often incorrectly spelled as "principle investigator", which would refer to someone who investigates principles or precepts. The correct term is "principal investigator", where "principal" means 'primary' or 'leading'. And you jumped into it with both feet -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
- Steven Squyres |
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Nov 29 2010, 09:48 PM
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Oh, thanks... I'm sat here, full of cold, looking like a cross between Swamp Thing and The Creature From The Black Lagoon, with a throat full of razor blades and gunk pouring out of my nose like some kind of Ghostbusters special effect and you pick me up on my grammar...
Kick a guy when he's down, why dontcha...! (But well spotted, I'll correct the post) -------------------- |
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Nov 30 2010, 12:09 PM
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Nov 30 2010, 01:38 PM
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Nov 30 2010, 02:12 PM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 4280 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
For those who are not regularly following Scott Maxwell's blog on the MERs, here's the link to yesterday's blog entry, basically dealing with the IDD stall 5 years ago while Opportunity was at Erebus crater.
Oh, it also has a nice paragraph at the end. |
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Nov 30 2010, 02:15 PM
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Oh, it also has a nice paragraph at the end. Awww, that's nice! But wow... 5 years ago... that's insane... -------------------- |
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Nov 30 2010, 02:26 PM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1075 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
This may not be the proper place for my question, but I don't want to resurrect an old thread. I've been using the MER filename decoder on this Web page: http://www.greuti.ch/oppy/html/filenames_ltst.htm# mainly to determine the sol number of Opportunity's images. But now it doesn't seem to work. When I insert the filename and click on "Decode", I obtain "NaN" for the sol number, and also "NaN" appears in various other places. Are you guys using any other filename decoder?
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Nov 30 2010, 02:48 PM
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Hmmm. Used that same site this morning and it worked perfectly...
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Nov 30 2010, 03:10 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
For those who are not regularly following Scott Maxwell's blog on the MERs, here's the link to yesterday's blog entry, basically dealing with the IDD stall 5 years ago while Opportunity was at Erebus crater. Oh, it also has a nice paragraph at the end. Here are the cards we sent (one went to Cornell) -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Nov 30 2010, 04:27 PM
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Nov 30 2010, 07:59 PM
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Dec 1 2010, 02:32 PM
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Very nice!
-------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Dec 1 2010, 04:42 PM
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