Posted on 08/10/2021 12:04:53 AM PDT by blueplum
NASA has spent nine years and about $2 billion in its quest to drill and store samples of Martian rocks. The Perseverance rover was poised to finally make that happen for the first time on Friday.
The rover picked a rock in an ancient Mars lake bed that could have once held alien life, and attempted to drill. But then something strange happened: The sample seems to have vanished without a trace....
...To figure out what happened, NASA is instructing Perseverance to take close-up pictures of the bore hole it made. Mission controllers will then try to make plans for another sampling attempt....
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Hunter sold it for crack and a good time.
Some thief somehow got past security undetected, and onto the Set.
It was one of those rock-people in the movie “Galaxy Quest”. It’s alive and didn’t want “to feel the pain”.
or Apollo 18 maybe? rock spiders
It may have just been a clod of soil, held together loosely, until the drilling and collection procedures broke it apart.
It’s been buried under the millions of fake ballots used to elect Bid*n.
ah, but the hole is clean, no puddle of material at the bottom...
Seems like I recall something like this happening before with an earlier rover. The rock under examination disappeared or got moved several feet, something like that.
These rovers are bandwidth-constrained and don’t generally take video, just still images. Don’t know what the integration time is for their large image sensors. It doesn’t need to be fast for taking pictures of stationary rocks, so it probably isn’t.
What all this means is that some fast-moving event or object would probably escape detection, except for whatever changes it left behind.
Not a geologist but I suspect the “rock” being drilled into consisted of very fine, lightly compressed powder that disintegrated when being moved. They thought they were drilling into sediment rock created at the bottom of a lake but it turned out it was soft sediment of wind deposited material. There’s a lot they need to learn.
I taught hand drilling (augering) of water wells in Africa & elsewhere. One of the first things I told my students was:
“This hole is magnetized! It will suck in any tool left lying around!”
I guess the same applies to very valuable rock samples on Mars.
:-)
The Martians came and picked it up before it could be destroyed by Earthlings.
It was made of antimatter so when the drill touched it…. Poof!
Check the Chinese robot, another case of intellectual property theft.
I think Howard was the one that lost it while showing off the rover to his wife.
He earlier got the rover stuck in a ditch when showing off for a girlfriend.
Big Bang ref...
It’s stuck on the drill bit.
An empty tube.
A new tube in the rock, no less.
there's nothing in the rover's sample-collection tube. And the rock core isn't laying around anywhere near the hole. It's just not there.
She is risen:
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance From Above
Isn't that the point of Percy's mission, to seek out life on Mars? In an ancient seabed? Why's he looking in an empty tube? He gave birth to Ginny on Sat. April 3rd. Not like NASA had to worry about anyone stealing the body.
All the little birds on Jaybird Street
Love to hear the robin go Tweet Tweet Tweet.
This 3D view of geologic feature the Mars Perseverance rover team calls “Raised Ridges” was generated from data collected by Ingenuity during its 10th flight at Mars, on July 24, 2021. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
What next for "Percy & Small?" Locating a missing hull? :)
"The table below lists 44 of the 45 vessels that Percy & Small built: can anyone identify the missing hull?"
Odd little chart of 44 hulls but numbered as if they total 45.
It's like a certain Torah story about the souls in Egypt.
We do know that the "longest wooden ship ever built" was located off of Chatham MA in 2003, which is the same as the transliterated...
חתם to seal, set a seal upon.
— Qal - חָתַם 1 he sealed, set a seal upon; PBH 2 he signed, affixed his signature; PBH 3 he concluded, finished; NH 4 he subscribed (to a newspaper or periodical).
Ha, there's even a seal of the seal, with the date of the Torah, which adds up to "611".
ok, geology sleuths and rock hunters - what happened?
Ingenuity: a story of being lost... and found.
It explains why lil' GINNY (a nickname for VIRGINia) is the total substitution for the scarlet letter A in NASAs red WORM font:
"NASALIZATION" - because the Messiah judges by scent.
Smell the salt spray!
Aye Calypso!
Rebels are on notice that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt.
It's a weird little whirled out there..
NASA has come up with an answer: it’s the rock’s fault
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