To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
03/15/2019 1:27:05 AM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: LibWhacker
With the mission originally planned to last 90 days, the 5,111-day Oportunity mission is, perhaps, the best return-on-investment any government program has ever seen.
3 posted on
03/15/2019 1:29:08 AM PDT by
Taipei
To: LibWhacker
Maybe a prototype for Nomad.
6 posted on
03/15/2019 2:06:33 AM PDT by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
To: LibWhacker
Would it be feasible to include a protective shield that can be deployed in the event a dust storm develops?
To: LibWhacker
Aw, poor dedicated little guy.
Images from xkcd.com. This was an epitaph for endeavor, but is appropriate here.
15 posted on
03/15/2019 3:35:23 AM PDT by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: LibWhacker
Thanks for posting. Just incredible that we can sit here in the am, have coffee etc., and look at pictures from Mars.
To: LibWhacker
17 posted on
03/15/2019 3:49:32 AM PDT by
BeauBo
To: LibWhacker
This is the Final Photograph from Opportunity
To: LibWhacker
In 1976, I was at NASA in Houston when the Viking mission landed and I saw the first images as they came through. The relay of the images were done in vertical strips and Viking was very slow to send them.
While on the tour I noticed a table in a corner where they had a small display of their new program they were working on called, "The Space Shuttle." They showed a plastic plane-looking like deal sitting on top of a commercial jet.
It was in the words of Spock, "fascinating."
25 posted on
03/15/2019 6:06:12 AM PDT by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: LibWhacker
That looks amazingly like any desert on Earth.
Creation is awesome!
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