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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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| 5/26/08
| Phoenix Mission Team
Posted on 05/26/2008 6:50:54 AM PDT by sig226
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It's up and running already. NASA made an animation of the landing for
yesterday's apod. I didn't post it because I couldn't get the embed to work.
Enjoy your holiday, everyone.
Thanks to the millions of men and women who have travelled around the world and sacrificed for The United States of America. We can't honor you properly with our words, you honor us every day with your actions.
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posted on
05/26/2008 6:50:56 AM PDT
by
sig226
To: fnord; Number57; KevinDavis; rdb3; MNJohnnie; thoughtomator; RightWhale; proudofthesouth; ...
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posted on
05/26/2008 6:51:46 AM PDT
by
sig226
(Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
To: sig226
Thanx for the pic. Why is it that our landers always miss the cities and land in a wasteland?
};^/
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posted on
05/26/2008 7:05:21 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient....then repent.)
To: sig226
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:02:38 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: sig226
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:09:45 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: Diogenesis
In the lower portion of the picture I see what appears to be a circle which might be the foot pad touchdown. The craft bounced due to the firmness of the soil.
does anyone else see this?
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:10:35 AM PDT
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: Diogenesis
In the lower portion of the picture I see what appears to be a circle which might be the foot pad touchdown. The craft bounced due to the firmness of the soil.
does anyone else see this?
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:11:37 AM PDT
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: Roccus
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:11:48 AM PDT
by
brivette
To: Young Werther
Which picture? There is dirt on top of the landing pad, so it kicked up some loose stuff.
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:15:08 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(You are reading this now)
To: sig226
According to news reports, messages from the probe “took 15 minutes to travel to Earth from Mars at the speed of light.”
Assuming that’s correct, it would be interesting to extrapolate the time it would’ve taken messages from the initial Apollo missions to reach earth and then compare that with the actual audio recordings. The exercise would, I think, help prove or disprove the moon landings as a fake or not.
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:37:26 AM PDT
by
Ahithophel
(Padron@Anniversario)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:38:26 AM PDT
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: Diogenesis
400 mill$$$$ down the tubes for nothing,worthless nasa.
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:42:53 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
To: Young Werther
It might have shifted sideways a couple inches. Looks like a rock might have been hit. There were 12 individual retro rockets firing during landing.
‘Phoenix touched down with a vertical velocity of about 5.4 mph and a horizontal velocity of less than 0.2 mph, oriented with respect to north within 1 degree of what engineers expected.’
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:44:09 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(You are reading this now)
To: Ahithophel
about 1.3 seconds each way
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:45:27 AM PDT
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: Ahithophel
You would just get an argument that they used an audio delay to make it sound right. Fake moon landings are a running gag on these threads, so if you can find some exceptional piece of humor from the whacko culture, please post it. Head cases are funny.
Besides, any idiot can see that the picture is really the desert outside Flagstaff. :)
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:52:56 AM PDT
by
sig226
(Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
To: Roccus
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posted on
05/26/2008 9:44:15 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
To: Vaduz
400 mill$$$$ down the tubes for nothing,worthless nasa. You keep on thinking that, ace.
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:30:57 AM PDT
by
Pistolshot
(When you let what you are define who you are, you create racial divisiveness.)
To: JRios1968
LOL1 Thanks for the laugh!
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:54:44 AM PDT
by
beltfed308
(Heller: The defining moment of our Republic)
To: beltfed308
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posted on
05/26/2008 11:05:31 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
To: Ahithophel
When I was watching it live, Walter Cronkite -the most trusted man in America- explained that the gaps in the conversation were due to the radio signal transit delays.
If you can’t trust dear old Walter, who can you trust?
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posted on
05/26/2008 2:19:10 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Capitalism=Volkswagon, Audi, Porsche, BMW. |WALL| Communism=Trabi. Any questions?)
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