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[Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA]

1 posted on 08/14/2011 10:44:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

WOW,way cool ,thanks for posting this!


3 posted on 08/14/2011 10:47:31 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Amazing. Thanks for posting.


4 posted on 08/14/2011 10:49:05 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: SunkenCiv
JFC on a raft, you think they could have packed more iron pyrite into it?

There's the first Martian fortune, scrabbling after those little iron balls.

/johnny

8 posted on 08/14/2011 10:52:38 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SunkenCiv

Still amazes me greatly we have a robot cruising Mars and sending photos such as this....it’s almost mindboggling to imagine...but there it is!


9 posted on 08/14/2011 11:00:55 PM PDT by caww
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for posting these astronomy pics of the day. You are my unofficial supplier of desktop backgrounds. This is a good one.


19 posted on 08/14/2011 11:45:00 PM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: SunkenCiv

Fake. The pic was taken in Nevada.


20 posted on 08/14/2011 11:47:50 PM PDT by lurk
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To: SunkenCiv
Another, earlier image taken by Opportunity in 2004, complete with clouds.

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)

23 posted on 08/15/2011 12:02:08 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SunkenCiv; All
NASA is sending a new rover very soon:

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.

26 posted on 08/15/2011 12:34:43 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: SunkenCiv

Sheila Jackson Lee
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district

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

29 posted on 08/15/2011 2:27:02 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: SunkenCiv

30 posted on 08/15/2011 2:34:56 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: SunkenCiv

Check out:

http://www.amazon.com/Fossil-Hunters-Guide-Mars/dp/1450720633/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311616656&sr=1-1

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.


40 posted on 08/15/2011 10:54:43 AM PDT by darth
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