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New Rover Spies Layered Rocks on Mars
AP ^ | 31 minutes ago | ANDREW BRIDGES

Posted on 01/27/2004 2:16:12 PM PST by BenLurkin

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What's the real story?
82 posted on 01/27/2004 7:39:42 PM PST by gorio
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To: JoJo Gunn
And there's always Ray Harryhausen.

I spent every Saturday watching some old "monster movie" or another on Creature Feature at 4 pm......:))

Then there were the original Outer Limits episodes.
Last week hubby was watching the one about the "strip of light" on the spaceship played and I left the room.
It creeped me out at 12 and 30 years later I still don't like to watch it...LOL!
83 posted on 01/27/2004 8:22:36 PM PST by Salamander
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To: Salamander
Oh yeah, I loved the Outer Limits.

I can't place what you're talking about.

The one that creeped me the most was Warren Oates with the big eyes. And the ants with human faces.
85 posted on 01/27/2004 9:02:57 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population - have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: BenLurkin
This calls for the celebrating, the whooping, the hollering, and the drinking and stuff...


86 posted on 01/27/2004 9:09:23 PM PST by Naspino (What would we do if Al Franken body slammed Michael Moore and they merged?)
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To: Lazamataz
Quit tempting me. A woman can only take so much!
87 posted on 01/28/2004 5:12:11 AM PST by cjshapi
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To: William Weatherford
MSG RCD FRM MARS "Stay off our golf course, or we will do more than use the tanning lights at night, on your spacecraft."


88 posted on 01/28/2004 10:47:31 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: William Weatherford
MSG RCD FRM MARS "Stay off our golf course, or we will do more than use the tanning lights at night, on your spacecraft."


89 posted on 01/28/2004 10:47:31 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: BenLurkin
OK, when did GW know about these rocks?

And when did he layer them??

90 posted on 01/28/2004 10:52:06 AM PST by tracer (ay)
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To: Salamander

"Paging Dr. Forrester, Dr. Clayton Forrester..."

91 posted on 01/28/2004 10:56:13 AM PST by Jonah Hex (If repetition wasn't a good thing, why would people get married?)
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To: BenLurkin
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040126/cgm024_1.html
BR> Profits and PE look good but the chart looks toppy - either that or it's building a base for a major breakout, I can never tell.
92 posted on 01/28/2004 1:06:20 PM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Bob Zubrin for Secretary of Space!)
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To: FreedomCalls
Photo of the surface of Venus from Venera 13. It looks like sedimentary rock to me.

Looks like lava flows to me. In fact, Venera 14 looks like pillow lava.

The top Venera 14 picture shows one of the most frustrating moments in space exploration.

Notice that the X-ray mass spectrometer probe, at the end of the extended arm, came down right on top of the ejected camera lens cap. How do you say "aw shucks break out the vodka" in Russian? :-[
93 posted on 01/28/2004 1:17:39 PM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Bob Zubrin for Secretary of Space!)
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Notice that the X-ray mass spectrometer probe, at the end of the extended arm, came down right on top of the ejected camera lens cap.

I never knew that. So that's what the little curvy thing that lies much closer to the lander's skirt on the opposite side (the next picture shown above at number 52 -- it's the lens cap from the other camera. What incredible bad luck.

94 posted on 01/28/2004 3:01:30 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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If I'm not mistaken (and I may be) the cameras on the Venera probes were mounted inside the refrigerated shell of the probe to keep them cooler longer and pointed straight up at a mirror driven by an electric motor on top of the shell. If that's the case, the lens cap was probably a two piece, spring loaded affair that fit over the mirror outside the shell of the probe. The two halfs popped off in different directions on landing.

I remember reading about this many years ago, I think it was in James Oberg's book.
95 posted on 01/28/2004 7:22:55 PM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Bob Zubrin for Secretary of Space!)
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