Posted on 09/06/2021 7:24:32 PM PDT by Ezekiel
Perseverance's First Cored Mars Rock in Sample Tube: Perseverances first cored-rock sample
is visible inside this titanium sample collection tube in this image taken on Sept. 6, 2021.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption
NASAs Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. Mission controllers at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California received data that confirmed the historic milestone.
The core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, making it available for retrieval in the future. Through the Mars Sample Return campaign, NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are planning a series of future missions to return the rovers sample tubes to Earth for closer study. These samples would be the first set of scientifically identified and selected materials returned to our planet from another.
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Today, at 12:34 a.m. EDT, Perseverance transferred sample tube serial number 266 and its Martian cargo into the rovers interior to measure and image the rock core. It then hermetically sealed the container, took another image, and stored the tube.
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A key objective for Perseverances mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.
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Seems as though scientists are setting themselves up for disappointment.
It’s a living parable.
It’ll all make sense in the weirdest ways.
On the first retrieval attempt they were surprised to discover an “empty tube”. The second try worked, leaving a denarius coin for a hole on the top of the rock. They waited for better lighting to verify that the rock sample from Montdenier was in the tube. At 12:34 EDT, Perseverance took the tube inside and sealed it up.
1234... The tube is numbered 266 which = Hebron, aka Kiryat Arba, the city of four, the location of Machpelah, the “double” cave of the Patriarchs.
Traditions are that Adam and Eve are buried there. The first man Adam was named after the red earth, as Mars in Hebrew is named Ma’adim for the same, the red soil.
Which was just collected and sealed up in tube 266.
You get the idea. Who can deny. :)
Funny thing about big surprises, Julian day 266 is Sept. 23 in non-leap years. Same day that Tora! Tora! Tora! was released in 1970.
And then that saying about awakening a sleeping giant became famous unto this day. Right out of a movie script.
Montdenier, the mountain of a
denarius = “containing ten”
1) A Roman silver coin in NT time. It took its name from it being equal to ten “asses”...<
And everyone knows that the law is an...
It’s best to have these kinds of data points at the ready. I just never know when they will come in handy.
I’m never disappointed. Perseverance for the win!
No, they're setting themselves up for a budget increase in the next appropriations bill."Well, we think we found.....something, but we need another $70 billion to go get a few more samples."
That's the way the pigs feed at the federal trough.
OK, buddy - in your heart of hearts, you have to know that was weird, right?
Indeed.
Never a shortage of entertainment in this world.
It takes a certain type, lol.
You have a great day! :)
Umberto Eco much?
“The core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, making it available for retrieval in the future.”
And so it began.
Originally scheduled for just five basic test flights, Ingenuity safely completed its 13th flight a couple days ago.
Ingenuity has set a new altitude and distance record on almost every one of its eight additional flights.
Elevated drone photography is going to become a feature of every Mars lander in the near future.
Gotta live a little!
Funny stuff...
Just as I was on the wiki page for "The Name of the Rose" (having hopped on that trail from your post),
"Ramblin' Rose" started playing on the radio. This is a small, portable radio in the next room, not like there was some snoopy internet algorithm "deciding" what I wanted to hear that moment.
Then again,
My transistor radio comes from far awayA still small voice!
And when it's night over here over there it's a breakin' day
Sez so right on the ad on that page:
"Introducing the world's smallest radio!"
Because if Ramblin' were a name and Rose were a verb,
Both Nippon and Nihon literally mean "the sun's origin", that is, where the sun originates,[5] and are often translated as the Land of the Rising Sun.
You know what's always kind of bothered me? Why that Japanese sun is red. Isn't it strange? Who does that?
Hmmm... there *must* be a real practical joker running the whole show, with a big, happy spring in His step and a twinkle in His eye.
Just like Abraham, I've always been a big fan of the Far Side. :)
I was all over that place, basically a lot of places.
Signed,
Ramblin' Rose.
And so it began.
Yet see how there is always more?
"Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample"
...which was placed and then sealed up in tube 266 for future unsealing. 266 = Tzimtzum [צמצום]
Amazingly, it... fit right in.
The future is now!
Merry New Year!
Recommend just a SLIGHT reduction in your meds, buddy.
Thank you for your blessing!
Drive-by insinuations and insults are always a tell that I'm about to receive more prizes for playing. If petty detractors knew what they were saying, they sure wouldn't say that.
From a certain perspective, it's gotta be drugs. That's the only "logical" explanation. And then that's that. Some might even warn the folks about me.
:)
Here's Judith with the good word!
Did you see a ‘host over the sun’ too?
Did they head off to Mars?
Wonder if that crystal ball is red. ;)
Red Sun is from Rising Sun symbol, I think, it does that sometimes.
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