[RightWhale]

Doesn't compare with the excitement of the Yellowstone caldera, but several scientific hypotheses would be tested when Rover starts roving around the crater floor.

[farmfriend]

Space ping.

[Veritas_est]

"There's not much doubt: this site contained a body of liquid water, at least for some amount of time," says Jim Garvin, NASA's Lead Scientist for Mars Exploration.

Interpretation: "We're just guessing here, but we really want to look like professionals, and have you believe we know what we're talking about."

[Consort]

They should land it near that British Beagle to see what happened to it.

[per loin]

The martians are not currently admitting visitors.

[Orlando]

Gusev Crater is located 14.5 (South) and 175.3 (East)
just south of Mars equator, but what region is Gusev located ?

Here's the realtime approach of Mars Spirit Lander to Mars.
At 2:20 pm,est (0720 GMT) Spirit is approx 460,747 km , which is 286,294 miles.

The Earth/Moon lunar distance is 384,401 km, which = 238,856 miles.

http://mars1.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/realtime/mera1.jpg

The new avg daytime temp by the equator in summer-time is
approx 65 degrees F, which is 20 C.

http://tes.asu.edu/tdaydaily.gif

[GRRRRR]

I think Karl Rover should be staying at the White House and not roaming around, all over the place. He's got plenty of work to do for President Bush...sheesh, get our priorities straight!

GRRRRR

[Orlando]

If I was in charge in sending Mars Landers , I would send a lander to the most interesting place on Mars the Cydonia Region.


http://www.msss.com/education/facepage/pio.gif


The place I would STAY AWAY FROM is the "Arabia Terra Region" The was a image looking at a small cave in a dark
color spot in a crater, and the image speaks for itself, if you zoom in 2x,4x in middle of image, what you see looks
________ ??? Here's that imaage.


http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/dec00_seds/8N7W/M14-01647subc.jpg

[dagnabbit]

NASA's animated film for this mission is great (in my amateur opinion)!

spelled out:
http://realserver1.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/ramgen/Video-New-MER-Animation-030606.rm?mode=compact

[Central Scrutiniser]

Got my fingers crossed, will be glued to the net tommorow. Hopefully the comet mission is a good omen.