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NASA Unveils Color Photo of Mars
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| 01/06/04
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Posted on 01/06/2004 10:12:43 AM PST by Pikamax
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:38:15 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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PASADENA, Calif.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mars; nasa
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To: Pikamax
The link takes you to a story on Fox News. This is a bit off topic, but when you click on the link to the actual photographs, Fox has inserted a slide that says "Dec.6, After a flawless landing, Spirit sent back images...". They are off on the date by a month, but such things often happen to us at the changeover to a new year. But last night I was watching on Fox News when they had a brief story about the Senate Race between Thune and Daschle. What the announcer said was fine, but in the graphic they had pictures of the two candidates. Under Daschle's picture it said "Gephardt". Once again, a slip that any of us could make, but maybe Fox's quality control is going downhill or maybe even there's an internal troublemaker at work. Who knows?
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:31:47 AM PST
by
Stirner
To: All
%$^&*#()@%#$^#$(#)@#^@(!))!_#%!@)#*#$%#*#
(Translated from Martian): "Foolish humans! You have inadvertantly discovered our secret Marsbase! We have no choice but to attack and destroy your puny planet!!"
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:32:15 AM PST
by
TheBigB
(...international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is. - Ann Coulter)
To: Pikamax
Hey, if you look closely, you can see some rocks there.
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:34:38 AM PST
by
metalboy
(I`m still waiting for the protests against Saddam and Al Qaida)
To: Pikamax
Look carefully there in the upper left hand corner. You can just make out some artifact. It looks like a book. The cover says "To Serve Man".
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:36:53 AM PST
by
Paradox
(Cogito ergo boom.)
To: rovenstinez
Well,.... WHERE ARE THE MARTIANS?
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:37:40 AM PST
by
Maceman
(Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
To: Charles Henrickson
I have to agree with Glenn Beck - looks like some part of the desert out in Nevada (exc for the coloring 'they' have done) ...
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:40:03 AM PST
by
_Jim
( <--- Ann Coulter speaks on gutless Liberals (RealAudio files))
To: metalboy
kyoto accords would have saved mars.
To: mlbford2
O, that's right. Say, wasn't he a Vietnam vet at the time?
To: Maceman
Where is Gort? Gort, klaatu barada nikto!
To: Neville72
not from mars
To: TheBigB; martin_fierro
To: Pikamax
There is something in the extreme lower-right of the full hi res image that looks like a squashed cactus!!!!
To: Charles Henrickson
Mars ROCKS!
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:03:21 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(. . . Bad puns are from Uranus.)
To: All
does anyone know the lifespan of the rovers?
I read it was only for a few weeks. If they are solar powered why not run for much longer?
To: Pikamax
There's a Jack In The Box burger wrapper there in the middle distance.
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:04:28 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(. . . Bad puns are from Uranus.)
To: longtermmemmory
I read it was only for a few weeks. If they are solar powered why not run for much longer? The Achilles' Heel of any solar power system. Energy storage. You store the energy you collect in batteries, which provide a reservoir of electrical energy. Eventually those batteries can't hold a charge, just like your car battery when it gets old or, in the case of my good old Nissan Sentra, when it gets old and gets periodically frozen in near-zero temperatures. Spirit (and Opportunity, if she makes it) will have it worse, having to brave nighttime temperatures around -150 deg. F. or so. The Warm Electronic Box (WEB) helps on that score, but eventually the WEB will freeze up as well.
They could have helped themselves on this score by going with an RTGs. That kept the ALSEPS on the Apollo missions and the Viking Landers going for years, and have done quite nicely on the Voyager and Galileo and Cassini spacecraft, but the wackos didn't like it because of that "nasty nuclear material" (plutonium). So you go with the PC solar panels and storage batteries, and end up with a 90-day mission (if you're lucky).
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:14:59 AM PST
by
chimera
To: martin_fierro; Phantom Lord; rovenstinez; TheBigB; metalboy; Maceman
To: Charles Henrickson
Ah! NOW I get it!
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:21:34 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(The Farce is strong with this one...)
To: Pikamax
As Rush Limbaugh said: "These liberals are so out of touch and so conspiracy-oriented, that they'll probably call these new color photos from Mars frauds shot from an SUV in Bush's ethnically cleansed Afghanistan."
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:43:20 AM PST
by
richardtavor
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
To: chimera
They could have helped themselves on this score by going with an RTGs. That kept the ALSEPS on the Apollo missions and the Viking Landers going for years, and have done quite nicely on the Voyager and Galileo and Cassini spacecraft, but the wackos didn't like it because of that "nasty nuclear material" (plutonium). So you go with the PC solar panels and storage batteries, and end up with a 90-day mission (if you're lucky). Unbelievable. That's criminal.
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:44:25 AM PST
by
Burkeman1
("If you see ten troubles comin down the road, nine will run into the ditch before they reach you")
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