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Spirit Has 'Brief Outing' On Martian Surface
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| 1-15-2004
| Steve Gorman
Posted on 01/15/2004 7:30:47 AM PST by blam
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To: Lokibob
"I was thinking this morning that it is going to get complicated later on in the month." Yeah...and it sucked the air out of the dems ....good timing...
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posted on
01/15/2004 8:40:07 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(It took Bush LESS time to topple Saddam than it took Janet Reno to topple the Branch Dividians in Wa)
To: blam
What I want to see is a photo of earth taken from Mars.
That would be cool.
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posted on
01/15/2004 8:40:10 AM PST
by
Chewbacca
(Gold and silver are the international reserve currency of the world!)
To: Lokibob
Thanks!
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posted on
01/15/2004 8:40:45 AM PST
by
DoctorMichael
(Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it.)
To: Chewbacca
What I want to see is a photo of earth taken from Mars.You'd need one hell of a zoom lens.
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posted on
01/15/2004 8:42:03 AM PST
by
Poohbah
("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
To: Chewbacca
"What I want to see is a photo of earth taken from Mars.
That would be cool." Wouldn't it look pretty much like a picture of Mars as viewed from earth? Just a spot of light? (maybe with a blue tinge instead for red.)
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posted on
01/15/2004 8:43:24 AM PST
by
blam
To: Poohbah
>What I want to see is a photo of earth taken from Mars.
There is such a pic. Not taken by Spirit of course. Don't have a link though.
To: Dialup Llama
There is such a pic. Not taken by Spirit of course. Don't have a link though.You must be thinking of the famous "Earthrise" picture from Apollo 8, taken in lunar orbit.
A picture of Earth taken from Mars would show a small speck absent a pretty healthy telescope.
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posted on
01/15/2004 8:58:41 AM PST
by
Poohbah
("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
To: js1138
Anyone notice the distinctively conservative names for these vehicles? Spirit and Opportunity.You're right. If libs had named them, it would have been Entitlement and Risky Proposition.
To: Poohbah
A picture of Earth taken from Mars would show a small speck absent a pretty healthy telescope. With the relative orbit positions of the planets right now you'd get a somewhat sideways half-moon equivalent.
To: Chewbacca
What I want to see is a photo of earth taken from Mars.
That would be cool.
One of the 'cool' things would be that the Moon would be very noticeable next to the Earth. 'Naked eye' (meaning a focal length/resolution similar to an unaided eye) would notice the double spot of light (with the Earth a bit larger than Mars as seen from Earth, and the Moon a bit smaller), but it wouldn't take a lot of magnification to see both Earth and Moon in the same phase.
As you said, "cool."
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01/15/2004 9:22:18 AM PST
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Gorjus
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