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First pictures of Mars Rover (Opportunity) "trenching" . . . comments/speculation encouraged
NASA - JPL ^ | 2-16-2004 | NASA/JPL

Posted on 02/16/2004 5:00:05 PM PST by Phil V.

Comments/speculation?

stereo strip of trench . . .



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KEYWORDS: mars
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1 posted on 02/16/2004 5:00:10 PM PST by Phil V.
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To: Phil V.
Looks like it's been doing some serious four-wheeling (six-wheeling?)
2 posted on 02/16/2004 5:01:00 PM PST by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
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To: Phil V.
Looks like permafrost a few inches down.
3 posted on 02/16/2004 5:01:58 PM PST by Prince Charles
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To: Phil V.
GOLD! We struck it rich!
4 posted on 02/16/2004 5:02:30 PM PST by thedugal (I am a genious.)
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To: Phil V.
i wonder if the "white" in the bottom of the hole is more bedrock?
5 posted on 02/16/2004 5:02:39 PM PST by cripplecreek (you win wars by making the other dumb SOB die for his country)
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To: Poohbah
what is the powdered doughnut stuff in the trench?
6 posted on 02/16/2004 5:02:47 PM PST by job (Dinsdale?Dinsdale?)
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To: Phil V.
So that's where they buried Jimmy Hoffa. Those clever bastards.
7 posted on 02/16/2004 5:02:54 PM PST by Glenn (What were you thinking, Al?)
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To: Phil V.
So when will the environmentalists start decrying this disruption of the Martian habitat (as in the novel "Red Mars")?
8 posted on 02/16/2004 5:03:05 PM PST by Jason Kauppinen
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To: Phil V.
OK, what's the white stuff in the tracks?
9 posted on 02/16/2004 5:03:27 PM PST by Clara Lou
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To: xm177e2; XBob; wirestripper; William Weatherford; whattajoke; VOR78; Virginia-American; ...

If you'd like to be on or off this MARS ping list please FRail me
10 posted on 02/16/2004 5:03:41 PM PST by Phil V.
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To: job
Uh-oh, it's a suspicious white powder. Mars is going to be shut down.
11 posted on 02/16/2004 5:03:49 PM PST by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
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To: Phil V.
It looks like another big government boondoggle.
12 posted on 02/16/2004 5:03:58 PM PST by RunningJoke
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To: Phil V.
Did NASA get an Environmental Impact Assessment?
13 posted on 02/16/2004 5:04:05 PM PST by Polybius
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To: Phil V.
It cost an awful lot of our money so this toy can dig a hole.
14 posted on 02/16/2004 5:04:20 PM PST by WhiteGuy (Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
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To: Glenn
OMG!! You have a sense of humour!!

LOL.
15 posted on 02/16/2004 5:04:24 PM PST by Neets (Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.~)
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To: Clara Lou; Phil V.
OK, what's the white stuff in the tracks?

Talc?

16 posted on 02/16/2004 5:04:59 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: Dog; Molly Pitcher; Miss Marple; lysie; Bitwhacker; illstillbe
Guys~~

Check these pics out!!!
17 posted on 02/16/2004 5:05:27 PM PST by Neets (Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.~)
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To: Prince Charles
None of the permafrost that I ever saw, including what I lived on top of, was white like that. [I'm not saying that it couldn't be-- just that I never saw any white like that.]
18 posted on 02/16/2004 5:05:32 PM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Neets
humour

I do, eh?

19 posted on 02/16/2004 5:05:32 PM PST by Glenn (What were you thinking, Al?)
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To: Phil V.
Think this thing could beat Jr. ?
20 posted on 02/16/2004 5:05:36 PM PST by ChadGore (Viva Bush. He's EARNED a second term.)
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