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[Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, NASA, JPL, Cornell; Image Processing: Kenneth Kremer, Marco Di Lorenzo]

1 posted on 12/12/2011 12:37:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Neat!


3 posted on 12/12/2011 12:42:24 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: SunkenCiv

We’re already mining on Mars? That explains a lot.


4 posted on 12/12/2011 12:49:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: SunkenCiv

Why couldn’t a giant, with a big hoe, do that?

They shouldn’t assume water does everything.


5 posted on 12/12/2011 12:51:08 AM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, then he must learn under the worst of times.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It's mine. Mars is my planet!

6 posted on 12/12/2011 1:26:02 AM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The new Mars rover, Curiosity, has a Twitter account you can follow and ask it questions:

MarsCuriosity Curiosity Rover
@semajretrac040 Mars gravity is 38% of Earth's. As I near Mars, I'll definitely feel the pull, but I'll weigh less there than on Earth.
10 Dec

7 posted on 12/12/2011 1:49:08 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Perry Christmas & Happy Newt Year!)
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To: SunkenCiv

martian semaphore?


8 posted on 12/12/2011 1:59:04 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SunkenCiv

Reminds me a a joke a few years back:

Why did Bush push for a resumption/expansion of the space program?

Cheney told him there was oil on Mars.


10 posted on 12/12/2011 4:37:00 AM PST by ixtl ( You live and learn. Or you don't live long.)
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