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Second Rover Lands Successfully on Mars
Associated Press ^
| 1/24/04
Posted on 01/24/2004 9:25:25 PM PST by anymouse
NASA's Opportunity rover successfully landed on Mars late Saturday, arriving at the Red Planet exactly three weeks after its identical twin set down.
"We're on Mars everybody," mission scientist Wayne Lee declared as fellow members monitoring the landing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory burst into wild applause.
The unmanned, six-wheeled rover landed at 9:05 p.m. PST in Meridiani Planum, NASA said. The smooth, flat plain lies 6,600 miles and halfway around the planet from where its twin, Spirit, set down on Jan. 3.
Together, the twin rovers make up a single $820 million mission to determine if Mars ever was a wetter world capable of sustaining life.
Since arriving, Spirit has developed serious problems, cutting off what had been a steady flow of pictures and other scientific data.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: goliath; jpl; mars; nasa; opportunity; q36spacemodulator; rover; space
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A two-fer for NASA.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:25:26 PM PST
by
anymouse
To: *Space; KevinDavis
Martian ping.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:26:08 PM PST
by
anymouse
To: anymouse
Oh maaaan! What are the chances that thing will find rocks? Imagine if it did? Holy cow!
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:27:38 PM PST
by
GasparSantiago
(Howard Dean is an insane gerbil)
To: anymouse; KevinDavis
I was watching. After the landing, Governor Arnold went through Mission Control congratulating the crew. You'll never guess who was with him. Uncle Martin himself, AlGore!!!!
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:29:16 PM PST
by
Lawgvr1955
(Sic Semper Tyrannus)
To: anymouse
That was exciting! Watching live on NASA TV.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:29:30 PM PST
by
zarf
(..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
To: anymouse
Martian ping. I thought I saw Al Gore there.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:29:36 PM PST
by
South40
(My vote helped defeat cruz bustamante; did yours?)
To: Lawgvr1955
Al just stopped in to take care of the computer problem. After all, the inventor should have the privilege of having a crack at it. Yeh, right!!
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:33:59 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: South40
Yeap... but Gov Schwarz was there too. It was great to see the Gov actually talking with the scientists. Gore was just standing around looking like an out of place buffoon.
To: Lawgvr1955
I want the dope on why Al Gore went on the floor and then Arnold came out and upstaged him essentially.
Arnold has been on Mars, whereas Al Gore is just in outer space.
To: anymouse
Is it using the same comm systems as the other one?
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:38:10 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(What am I rebelling against? Well, what do ya got?)
To: Lawgvr1955
Right now Total Recall is playing on TNT...
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:39:21 PM PST
by
DMCA
(TITLE 17 Chapter 1 Sec 107)
To: Chad Fairbanks
To: anymouse
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:41:56 PM PST
by
mitchbert
(Facts are Stubborn Things)
To: GasparSantiago
What chance did Columbus have in discovering North America was a land mass made of Rocks?
I am so sick of your myopic view and pointless point...
Tell us what reall irks you...or shut the fug up
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:43:34 PM PST
by
antaresequity
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com/)
To: patriciaruth
Maybe its me, but the controllers seemed happier to see Arnold. Wasn't Algore wanting to put up an expensive satellite so we could all watch the earth spin on its axis or something? Great use of tax dollars.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:43:34 PM PST
by
Lawgvr1955
(Sic Semper Tyrannus)
To: ican'tbelieveit
From what I saw Gore was just standing in the background taking up space…kind of reminiscent to his days as VP.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:44:43 PM PST
by
South40
(My vote helped defeat cruz bustamante; did yours?)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Is it using the same comm systems as the other one?One major reason to have them on opposite sides of Mars, both can't be transmitting at the same time towards earth, and the orbiting craft can only receive from one at a time as well.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:45:34 PM PST
by
SengirV
To: GasparSantiago
What are the chances that thing will find rocks?What an idiotic premise...I am so sick of this childish, myopic view on why the human race is so fascinated with exploration and discovery...
Shut up
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:46:13 PM PST
by
antaresequity
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com/)
To: GasparSantiago
HA HA funny...HA HA funny...HA HA funny...HA HA funny...HA HA funny...HA HA funny...HA HA funny...
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:46:41 PM PST
by
petuniasevan
(America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country - George W. Bush)
To: GasparSantiago
Hey Gasp, you're on a thread of adventure-loving people. Too bad you seem to have lost yours.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:51:23 PM PST
by
Prince Caspian
(Don't ask if it's risky... Ask if the reward is worth the risk)
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