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Mars Rover Encounters Dune
JPL Rover website ^ | 29 April 2005 | NASA photo

Posted on 04/29/2005 2:18:48 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo

Mars Rover Opportunity Raw Image site.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dune; mars; nasa; opportunity
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To: Right Wing Assault

It's like an M.C. Escher sketch: You can force your brain to see it in either of two different ways. Or you can not interfere with the way your brain interprets the image and run a 50% chance of getting it wrong. Once I convince myself the scene is being lit from the right, then I see a crater, otherwise a bump.


41 posted on 04/29/2005 2:52:01 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Call AAA...


42 posted on 04/29/2005 2:52:13 PM PDT by Redcloak (But what do I know? I'm just a right-wing nut in his PJs whackin' on a keyboard..)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

This picture proves that Mars is only about 4 feet in diameter too.


43 posted on 04/29/2005 2:53:34 PM PDT by ZGuy
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To: nuconvert

Actually, it's a picture taken in the New Mexico desert....

LOL!


44 posted on 04/29/2005 2:55:35 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher ( A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't... -Rhonda Hansome-)
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To: mhking

Finally, a Dune allusion


45 posted on 04/29/2005 2:57:20 PM PDT by Soliton (Alone with everyone else.)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

"...The MER provides a separate RB (Rocker-Bogie)system for the left and right wheels. Each RB consists of a forward and aft bogie, to which are attached corresponding forward and aft bogie wheel struts. The end of each wheel strut provides an attachment point for a drive motor and wheel assembly. The aft bogie structure slides into the forward bogie's structural cavity, and is secured to the FB by way of a square bolt, which can be inserted into one of four available positioning holes. The aft rocker arm is affixed to the forward bogie, near the AB/FB attach point through a hinge and actuator assembly. A U shaped adapter bracket fits onto the other end of the AR. The bracket holds a structural member that provides a mount for the Rocker Deployment Actuator, which permits the forward bogie that it's attached to to be rotated around the longitudinal axis of the rover. The end of the forward bogie has an attach point for a drive motor and wheel assembly..."

46 posted on 04/29/2005 2:59:33 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Fitzcarraldo

I like those little NASA hubcaps.


47 posted on 04/29/2005 3:00:13 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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Ref for above: http://hobbiton.thisside.net/rovermanual/
48 posted on 04/29/2005 3:00:29 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Fitzcarraldo

bump


49 posted on 04/29/2005 3:01:32 PM PDT by KDD
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To: StevieB
Not bad for a couple of pieces of equipment that were designed to last for 90 days!

This ain't you Father's Oldsmobile.

NASA may have written a 90-day MTBF criteria into the design spec, but you know that got multiplied by 5 or 10 by the time the material demand hit the upstream suppliers. Nobody wanted to have their company name in the negative news.

"Failure of a teflon coated titanuim sphincter bearing sold to NASA by Federal Moneytaker Inc. has ended the Mars rover mission early..."

THAT would go over like lead balloons in the boardroom.
50 posted on 04/29/2005 3:02:08 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Rex regum et Dominus dominantium)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Does it have a little winch that can be hooked to the American flag that the astronauts left on the moon?

Sorry, a Shelia Jacka$$ Lee moment.

51 posted on 04/29/2005 3:02:15 PM PDT by Eaker (America, where the scepters of kings are broken up for kindling.)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Didn't NASA pimp that ride before it left the shop? Why can't they turn on the bouncy-bouncy device and let the buggy pop up and down a bit? ;-)

-PJ

52 posted on 04/29/2005 3:05:18 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Didn't NASA pimp that ride before it left the shop?

Nope. They blew the budget on the sound system.

53 posted on 04/29/2005 3:06:50 PM PDT by Eaker (America, where the scepters of kings are broken up for kindling.)
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To: Redcloak

When is high tide?


54 posted on 04/29/2005 3:07:19 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Planned Parenthood is neither.)
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To: d-informed-1

Both rovers are working


55 posted on 04/29/2005 3:11:23 PM PDT by JamminJAY (This space for rent)
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To: nuconvert
It looks like Wyoming. I used my windshield wipers a week ago for the first time in about four years.
56 posted on 04/29/2005 3:11:34 PM PDT by Big Horn (We need more Tom DeLay's)
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To: StevieB
pieces of equipment that were designed to last for 90 days

Roger that.

Jammer
57 posted on 04/29/2005 3:12:21 PM PDT by JamminJAY (This space for rent)
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To: ZGuy

This picture proves that Mars is only about 4 feet in diameter too.
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Yeah... and now they need to send in the repair crew to fix the
vile and disgusting deliberately created surface mess !!! ;-))



58 posted on 04/29/2005 3:16:56 PM PDT by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!! -- Impeach Greer !!!.)
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To: Kenny Bunkport
I like those little NASA hubcaps.

Can I get those through J.C. Higgins or do I have to order them directly through NASA?

They would look cool on my van.

59 posted on 04/29/2005 3:18:58 PM PDT by Dogrobber
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To: Fitzcarraldo

From your post 46, I'd say no they can't be cantilevered, only turned. In post 46, notice the drums are hollow. The first drum picture (from above post) gave me the impression the entire wheel was enclosed but that is not the case. The sand mixture not only caked on the tread, it's most likely compacted within the wheel drum. Deep doo doo, so to speak. This is looking worse.


60 posted on 04/29/2005 3:21:55 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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