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First colour image from Mars (Spirit) rover is up!
NASA Mars Rover web site ^ | 6 Jan 04 | NASA

Posted on 01/06/2004 10:00:47 AM PST by alnitak

Edited on 01/06/2004 11:09:49 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]



TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colour; gusev; mars; pictures; rover; spirit
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To: John H K
All landers so far have deliberately landed miles and miles from anywhere that wasn't almost perfectly flat, for that reason.

Yeah, I realize that. I was wondering how all those rocks got scattered all over the place in the plains. I would expect them around the lower plains of mountainous areas, but what carried them into the plains? Glaciers? I'm quite uninformed on geology.

61 posted on 01/06/2004 10:26:47 AM PST by templar
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To: alnitak

62 posted on 01/06/2004 10:27:33 AM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: alnitak
I can't believe you just posted that 8MB image. You're gonna get flamed!
63 posted on 01/06/2004 10:29:20 AM PST by Doohickey (The ultimate paradigm of government is the public restroom)
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To: templar
"...A questin for exogeologists: Why all the rocks and stones everywhere and no mountains they came from? I was kinda expecting a lot of sand (and maybe a few old ruins or someting)..."

Well, although I'm no "exogeologist", here is my two cents worth:

A lot of the sharp, jagged rocks strewn EVERYWHERE are probably ejecta from impacts in the past. In other words, some big object slams into Mars creating a crator, and the rocks and debris rain down all over the joint, then just sit there for a million years, because the atmosphere is too thin to push much of anything bigger than a grain of sand or dust.

Now, of great interest would be smoothly rounded rocks, such as those found in riverbeds, or "banded" sedimentary rocks, showing the distinct signs of being formed from water driven processes.
64 posted on 01/06/2004 10:30:44 AM PST by Rebel_Ace (Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
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To: alnitak
Looks like Galena, Alaska without the snow.
65 posted on 01/06/2004 10:33:49 AM PST by hattend (Mr Bush, the Supremes upheld CFR...what's your plan B? Too late to veto, now)
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To: bonfire; RadioAstronomer; bonesmccoy; Ernest_at_the_Beach; GeronL; glock rocks; Phil V.; djf; ...
BIG PICTURE!
66 posted on 01/06/2004 10:34:07 AM PST by Howlin (Bush has stolen two things which Democrats believe they own by right: the presidency & the future)
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To: F14 Pilot
ping
67 posted on 01/06/2004 10:35:55 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.)
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To: alnitak
Wow. I'm deeply impressed that we spent millions of dollars for pictures of dirt and rocks. I won't be surprised if this ends up on CAGW.
68 posted on 01/06/2004 10:37:24 AM PST by m1-lightning (Weapons of deterrence do not deter terrorists; people of deterrence do.)
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To: alnitak
Does anyone see what looks like a zig zag of rockless sand that starts from the horizon and sweeps left to right as it approaches the camera location ? It looks like a shallow dry river bed that followed the contours back and forth.

It doesn't make sense that its from bouncing.

69 posted on 01/06/2004 10:39:13 AM PST by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: Rebelbase
Isn't that shot from the New York Times interview with the average guy on Mars. Who said, "Mars is definitely leaning towards voting democratic. This Rover is just another occupation of Mars by the Bush administration. I hope the people on Earth figure out a way to keep Bush's agression in check. The search for life on Mars is just an excuse. You wait and see if they don't give Haliburton a contract for Mars oil."
70 posted on 01/06/2004 10:40:19 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Petronski; Rebelbase

71 posted on 01/06/2004 10:41:18 AM PST by Bush Cheney (1st Quarter Freepathon is Underway!)
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To: commish

72 posted on 01/06/2004 10:45:18 AM PST by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Revolting cat!
"Where's the KABOOM? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering KABOOM!"

"Where's the American flag our astronauts put there a few years back?"
(Didn't Sheila Jackson Lee ask that question?)
73 posted on 01/06/2004 10:46:03 AM PST by Muzzle_em
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To: Thinkin' Gal
CUTE!
LOL!!!
74 posted on 01/06/2004 10:46:52 AM PST by Muzzle_em
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To: templar
There's a very large channel that appears to be water carved, by a sudden flood(or more than one flood) leading from a high area down into Gusev crater.

Material could have been transported by water down that channel from elsewhere.

But, as mentioned, you can also get rocks from debris from large meteorite or asteroid hits, etc. There's more of that on the Moon, Mars, etc. than on Earth.
75 posted on 01/06/2004 10:47:10 AM PST by John H K
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To: alnitak
wow! San Angelo, Texas! bump
76 posted on 01/06/2004 10:48:03 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Rebelbase
I don't suppose you could trade that red ATV for a nice six-wheeled John Deere Gator, could you?
77 posted on 01/06/2004 10:48:59 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: alnitak
The shape of the picture makes it look like New Mexico. So does the content.
78 posted on 01/06/2004 10:50:26 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: alnitak
bump for science...
79 posted on 01/06/2004 10:52:51 AM PST by aBootes
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To: alnitak
These pictures are clearly fakes!

we are really looking at the desert in northern chile... i can even make out some jeep trails in the foreground and an empty can of Paulaner beer and a discarded empanada off in one corner...

80 posted on 01/06/2004 10:53:36 AM PST by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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