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Recovering Spirit Sets Sight on Cake
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| 1-30-04
| JPL
Posted on 01/30/2004 9:57:44 AM PST by Slicksadick
Recovering Spirit Sets Sight on Cake These are some of the first images sent back from the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since the rover fell ill on the 18th sol, or martian day, of its mission. They were acquired at Gusev Crater, Mars on Sol 26 (Jan. 29, 2004), showing that the camera's health remained excellent during Spirit's recovery. Two of Spirit's potential target rocks can be seen above. The rock on the left has been named "Cake" after its resemblance to the dessert. The white rock on the right has been named "Blanco."
TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mars
To: Slicksadick
Mmmmmm ... cake.
To: Winston Smith Jr.
Chocolate with a hint of raspberry?
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:02:10 AM PST
by
Slicksadick
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com/ put it in your tagline too)
To: Slicksadick
Creepy. The one on the right looks like the upper part of an animal skull. Wouldn't THAT be interesting?
To: Slicksadick
Sounds good, Black Forest is my favorite. (Drat, now my keyboard is covered with drool.)
To: RoughDobermann
Probably Dean's ancestors.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:05:04 AM PST
by
SirAllen
To: Slicksadick
Looks like more of that 'sedimentary' rock like at Challenger Station.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:05:45 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
Layer cake?
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:06:35 AM PST
by
Slicksadick
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com/ put it in your tagline too)
To: Slicksadick; hchutch
No, Nigerian yellowcake. We just found Saddam's WMD stash!
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:07:47 AM PST
by
Poohbah
("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
To: Slicksadick
Latest picture of Opportunity's landing crater.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:16:38 AM PST
by
Slicksadick
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com/ put it in your tagline too)
To: Slicksadick
Cool graphic. Thanks
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:19:09 AM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(NASA bumper sticker: My other Rover is a FORD too.)
To: Slicksadick
The rock on the left is the top corner of a block that was intended to be shipped to Earth and used by ancient astronauts as part of a Mayan pyramid. The cost overruns of transporting blocks from Mars became too high and eventually the project was outsourced to stone carvers in the Yucatan. Europeans came with syphilis and killed off the native stone-carvers. By that time the Martian quarries had been abandoned and all the trained Martian stone-carvers had been retrained in service positions so the extraterrestrials decided to invest in real estate in another part of the galaxy and left.
See what you can learn from a rock?
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:23:01 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: Slicksadick
The name Spirit should be renamed in honor of both Mars and the cost to Red Ink.
Oh my god! That looks like... could it be... a rock.
To: Kirkwood
You need to ping Willie Green with this finding.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:34:53 AM PST
by
Rebel_Ace
(Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
To: Kirkwood
you forgot where we gave the Martians smallpox-laden blankets to protect them during the cold Martian windstorms...
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:35:47 AM PST
by
Keith
(IT'S ABOUT THE JUDGES)
To: Kirkwood
Martians against Planetary Free Trade Agreements
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:36:02 AM PST
by
Samurai_Jack
(Pacifism by its nature invites escalating acts of war on anyone who practices it.)
To: Slicksadick
Cool - great rock pictures. I'm so glad the government is spending my tax dollars on so worthy a venture.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:36:06 AM PST
by
BSunday
(Patriots will win SB38)
To: BSunday
Cool - great rock pictures. I'm so glad the government is spending my tax dollars on so worthy a venture.Yeah, I wish they would find a cure for myopia first.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:57:21 AM PST
by
Paradox
(Cogito ergo Doom.)
To: Paradox
Yeah, I wish they would find a cure for myopia first. Gee, and I was expecting someone to tell me what great benefits to mankind this mission would bring. How disappointing.
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posted on
01/30/2004 5:41:24 PM PST
by
BSunday
(Patriots will win SB38)
To: BSunday
I was expecting someone to tell me what great benefits to mankind this mission would bring. The goal is to locate evidence of present or past life on Mars and the strategy is to zero in on spots where the chances for discovery are maximized. Given that two satellites have been orbiting Mars for months, searching for likely combinations of surface factors, the two Rover landing spots have been carefully chosen. The Rovers will hopefully provide leads for the next step in the search.
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