Posted on 08/14/2011 10:43:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: What can the present-day terrain in and around large Endeavor crater tell us about ancient Mars? Starting three years ago, NASA sent a coffee-table sized robot named Opportunity on a mission rolling across the red planet's Meridiani Planum to find out. Last week, it finally arrived. Expansive Endeavor crater stretches 22 kilometers from rim to rim, making it the largest crater ever visited by a Mars Exploration Rover (MER). It is hypothesized that the impact that created the crater exposed ancient rock that possibly formed under wet conditions, and if so, this rock may yield unique clues to the watery past of Mars. Pictured above, the west rim of Endeavor looms just ahead of the Opportunity rover. Opportunity may well spend the rest of its operational life exploring Endeavor, taking pictures, spinning its wheels, and boring into intriguing rocks.
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Twain at the Tesla lab
Here is a few seconds of rare film footage of Mark Twain taken by Tom Edison....to me this is just as amazing as the Mars pictures.
Mark Twain film footage
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25 years ago I lived in New Jersey next to an old guy. Out in the country, just up the road from the old Edison Cement Factory (then just a few walls still standing). I would mow his yard, and then have a beer and chat. He would talk about the old days.
He used to work at the cement factory as a kid. Would measure the cement for weight by dipping a cup on a stick into the vat, do clean up chores, and bring “Tommy” his sandwiches when he was there. Also was Tommy’s errand boy for other things, and would mention Tommy this or Tommy that.
After a few evenings of these conversations it finally struck me. “Tommy? You mean Thomas Edison!!!???” (”Well who the h&*$ to you think I’ve been talking about!?”)
One of my favorites.
Clouds above the rim of "Endurance Crater" in this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. These clouds occur in a region of strong vertical shear. The cloud particles (ice in this martian case) fall out, and get dragged along away from the location where they originally condensed, forming characteristic streamers. Opportunity took this picture with its navigation camera during the rover's 269th martian day (Oct. 26, 2004). (NASA/JPL)
And had great respect for NT.
I should follow his example, but I've never been good a doing that... I just told a man from Mississippi that he was an asshole. And he was, in that context.
But it's not a great idea if you want to live a long time.
/johnny
/johnny
Curiosity Rover Trailer
This animation shows key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission Curiosity rover, which will launch in late 2011 and land on Mars in August 2012.
Nor amused.
Cowboys will win Mars. We're used to spare country.
Native americans would do that, but we used them up, last round of cowboys and the guys that were here before.
Sorry. We sorta busted that.
/johnny
On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]
Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee#Political_career
Chem trails on mars!
Sorry you didn’t see the joke in the post.
#guffaw#
COOL!
Fake. The pic was taken in Nevada.
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funny!
and thanks as always to SunkenCiv
for the great articles about this world and others...
My pleasure.
:’) Thanks JRF.
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Sir Charles thinks that NASA is well aware that there is already evidence of past life on Mars. They have been covering it up for a while. Now, he speculates, NASA is going to announce before the Chicoms or Russians have a chance to steal their thunder.
They look like seashells to me.
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