Some photos are partial images, chock full of artifacts.
More interesting to me are some of the NavCam images from Sol 35. Look at the discoloration of Adirondack after the grind test. You can really see the round hole bored into the rock in these various images. I can only assume that the dark material on the rock is the detritus from the grind. Interesting images.
Hey, there must be somebody on one of the teams who is from Georgia...they renamed the rock named "snout" to "Stone Mountain", which is a huge 600 foot tall outcrop of granite just to the east of Atlanta...in school we were taught that the entire blob of granite stretches under five states. Anyway, the real "mountain" has a granite carving on one side that features the officers of the Confederacy in the war between the states. The spot that the rovers are aiming to grind on has been named "Robert E.". Coincidence?
you know, there should be a 3rd option to the poll: neither
you guys all complain about bush wasting money and stuff, but you wanna go to mars. who gives a shit if we can go to mars??? its not gonna do a thing for us back here. and the moon is a stupid idea too b/c we're gonna mess it up, and then throw all of the natural processes that the moon affects way outta wack.
hey we have moon dust and red sand!!!! worship us!!!! even though we can only send 4 people there every 8 years!!!! and lose tons of money doing it!!!!
Yes, the giant lasers and to begin the assembly of the giant robotic space-faring monkeys testicles. As always, Ganondorf is spot-on in regard to space policy.
ipodandimac I will refer you to our Space Policy in the 21st Century Thread. I personally feel that the poll is not related to this thread and should instead be attached to the space policy thread...but what's done is done.
Give a hoot, don't pollute. If you post in those threads we'll come play!
From its new location at the inner edge of the small crater surrounding it, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was able to look out to the plains where its backshell (left) and parachute (right) landed. Opportunity is currently investigating a rock outcropping with its suite of robotic geologic tools. This approximate true-color image was created by combining data from the panoramic camera's red, green and blue filters.
Plenty of awesome geological images of "Stone Mountain" and its spherules too. Great briefing yesterday.
Speaking of "sweet", go take a look at the next proposed Mars mission...it's one of those clone-trooper transports from "Phantom Menace"!!!! Close to it anyway.
Who ARE these people who spend time feverishly coming up with stuff like this?
How can you argue with this?
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Or does it have to do with secret societies? As documented on another page on this site , NASA has its share of Masons, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was founded by a ceremonial magician who performed sex magick with L. Ron Hubbard!
to bring us back on topic, and recall the original post with Marvin...
Recently announced images of two microscopic 'Martians' now on Mars are below
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We managed to capture a photograph of what are now perhaps the tiniest Martians on Mars. Appearing as an opposed duet of helmeted gladiators, these angry silicon soldiers were discovered on the surface of an image sensor used by the Spirit and Opportunity rovers sent to probe the Red planet. Maybe these are the ONLY Martians on Mars? Probably not. In any event, the chip was loaned to us by designer Mark Wadsworth who is a fan of the Silicon Zoo. Mark informs us that he decided to try his hand at silicon artwork after visiting the Zoo on several occasions. The title of his artwork is the "Dueling Marvin the Martians". Mark designed the image sensor for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory along with Tom Elliot, who actually did the testing of the flight candidate imagers to select the 20 or so that actually made it on the two missions. Tom and Mark tended to butt heads quite a bit, which was the inspiration for the doodle.
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from the always entertaining microscopy collection at FSU's Silicon Zoo
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http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/sol33_2.jpg
Some photos are partial images, chock full of artifacts.
More interesting to me are some of the NavCam images from Sol 35. Look at the discoloration of Adirondack after the grind test. You can really see the round hole bored into the rock in these various images. I can only assume that the dark material on the rock is the detritus from the grind. Interesting images.
Hole in one.
Screed
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you know, there should be a 3rd option to the poll: neither
you guys all complain about bush wasting money and stuff, but you wanna go to mars. who gives a shit if we can go to mars??? its not gonna do a thing for us back here. and the moon is a stupid idea too b/c we're gonna mess it up, and then throw all of the natural processes that the moon affects way outta wack.
hey we have moon dust and red sand!!!! worship us!!!! even though we can only send 4 people there every 8 years!!!! and lose tons of money doing it!!!!
</my 2 cents>
I refer you to the Mars Wingnut Thread for the space laser discussions.
ipodandimac I will refer you to our Space Policy in the 21st Century Thread. I personally feel that the poll is not related to this thread and should instead be attached to the space policy thread...but what's done is done.
Give a hoot, don't pollute. If you post in those threads we'll come play!
From its new location at the inner edge of the small crater surrounding it, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was able to look out to the plains where its backshell (left) and parachute (right) landed. Opportunity is currently investigating a rock outcropping with its suite of robotic geologic tools. This approximate true-color image was created by combining data from the panoramic camera's red, green and blue filters.
Plenty of awesome geological images of "Stone Mountain" and its spherules too. Great briefing yesterday.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...20040209a.html
Over at Space.com
captions to come later at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...20040217a.html
Thursday's briefing is scheduled to release new APXS and Mossbauer data on the trench before and after.
Originally posted by drewprops
Who ARE these people who spend time feverishly coming up with stuff like this?
How can you argue with this?
Or does it have to do with secret societies? As documented on another page on this site , NASA has its share of Masons, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was founded by a ceremonial magician who performed sex magick with L. Ron Hubbard!
Recently announced images of two microscopic 'Martians' now on Mars are below
We managed to capture a photograph of what are now perhaps the tiniest Martians on Mars. Appearing as an opposed duet of helmeted gladiators, these angry silicon soldiers were discovered on the surface of an image sensor used by the Spirit and Opportunity rovers sent to probe the Red planet. Maybe these are the ONLY Martians on Mars? Probably not. In any event, the chip was loaned to us by designer Mark Wadsworth who is a fan of the Silicon Zoo. Mark informs us that he decided to try his hand at silicon artwork after visiting the Zoo on several occasions. The title of his artwork is the "Dueling Marvin the Martians". Mark designed the image sensor for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory along with Tom Elliot, who actually did the testing of the flight candidate imagers to select the 20 or so that actually made it on the two missions. Tom and Mark tended to butt heads quite a bit, which was the inspiration for the doodle.
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from the always entertaining microscopy collection at FSU's Silicon Zoo