Posted on 06/28/2007 5:22:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A false color image captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows 'Cape St. Vincent,' one of the many promontories that jut out from the walls of the Victoria Crater on Mars. NASA will send its Mars rover Opportunity into the gaping Martian crater in July to seek clues about the planet's bygone environment despite risks to the plucky little vehicle, officials said on Thursday. (NASA/Handout/Reuters)
I think this will be it’s final resting place. It done good though.
This June 26, 2007, image provided by NASA shows light-colored tracks left by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it traveled along the rim of Victoria Crater. The aging but durable Mars rover Opportunity will make what could be a trip of no return into this deep impact crater in an attempt to peer farther back than ever before into the geologic history of the Red Planet. This image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. (AP Photo/NASA)
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Lots more Rover stuff HERE..
It’s already last about 3 to 4 times as long as they had hoped for.. pretty cool little buggies.. they done good on a fairly tight budget..
c00l pics :)
Break out the ping list - they be claiming the universe is older than 6,000 - 10,000 years!
“”That was the original, pre-impact surface so this bright stuff is the stuff that was in contact with the Martian atmosphere at the time Victoria formed, which may have been billions of years ago,” Squyres said.”
Its route will only be a 20 degree descent, and it’s already survived 32 degrees.
Opportunity ping
There's a Pr0n name I didn't think of.
I thought a bit about over the title and uhhh what you said.. darn. lol
LOL!
“I think this will be it’s final resting place.’
Nah, it’s final resting place will be in the Mars City Museum.
==which may have been billions of years ago
If your goal is to prove evolution/old age of the universe, you might want to avoid posting articles containing words or phrases like... may, conceivably, could be, imaginably, might be, perchance, perhaps, etc. LOL
Since we currently have no way of dating the bathtub ring strata an the Victoria site, qualifying the time passed since the meteor strike seems prudent, unless one thinks Mars, too, cannot be more than six thousand years old.
Fyi..
They can have the whole crater covered by a glass walkway.
Do you see the face on the cliff wall in the lower right of your picture...LOL
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