First colour image from Mars (Spirit) rover is up!

NASA Mars Rover web site ^ | 6 Jan 04 | NASA

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New photos of Mars during the Bush Presidency reveal little atmosphere, inhospitable environment. Women and children affected most.

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"Where's the American flag our astronauts put there a few years back?" (Didn't Sheila Jackson Lee ask that question?)

See post #114.

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Time traveller Wesley Clark went there 200 years from now.

[2Jedismom]

OK tell the truth -this is Tatooine not Mars.

I knew it!

[Orlando]

WOW ! To me it looks like a dead fossilize gator/frog ?
Is it possible to zoom-in more ? Remember this was once a lake. This news would be great for NASA/JPL if this is the case. Mars here we come ! Just like the 60's...vet out

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Speeking of which, here's a picture of the cheese eating Europeans' Mars rover:

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John Carter, Crocodile Hunter From Mars???

[in the Arena]

On a side note, my wife, who isn't the space enthusiast I am, walked in, took one look at the mars picture and declared that they managed to land in the most boring spot on the whole planet.

I'll bet she's already making plans to add some hydrangeas and maybe a little creeping violet over by the crater...:O)

[m1-lightning]

I was having a wonderful day until you mentioned PETA(Pathetic Excrament Tasters of America).

[brooklin]

Could have been sand-blasted by the wind.

[ItsForTheChildren]

From the blacked-out area in the lower left:

[ElkGroveDan]

"Glad we left our pocket protectors at home for the press conference Don, otherwise people might think we're all a bunch of geeks here at NASA."

[Prime Choice]

ROTFLOL! Love it! : )

[Mr. K]

I don't know why but every picture of Mars is just strewn with rocks and covered so uniformly that there must have been something unbelievably huge crashing into it at some point.

It just looks like the dust (and rocks) settled evenly over the whole surface.

[Prime Choice]

This work for ya? ; )

[Prime Choice]

I don't know why but every picture of Mars is just strewn with rocks and covered so uniformly that there must have been something unbelievably huge crashing into it at some point.

Actually, I think someone once pointed out that Earth would look much the same if it didn't have water (thus no rains, rivers or oceans to reduce the rocks to pebbles, sand, et cetera).

[alnitak]

That thing at the top right definitely has a mouth - Iguana road kill?

[Professional Engineer]

YAY Tourist guy

[RightWhale]

It just looks like the dust (and rocks) settled evenly over the whole surface.

Rocks are on top of dust. If you have a jar of pebbles and sand and shake it a little, the rocks kind of move to the top and the sand settles. Maybe there was or is some kind of shaking there so the rocks moved to the top. The rocks are smoothed, which might be nothing more than sand-blasting for a few million years. Or it could be water action, but water wasn't flowing very long. Like it rained once and that was it.

[geedee]

Hell, LOL, I can look out my West Texas window and see that. I coulda saved them a lotta moola.