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Not sure when we will see pics.
1 posted on 03/04/2004 7:20:37 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Cool, though I guess it wouldn't look very big with a distance of 23,460 KM from Mars.
2 posted on 03/04/2004 7:28:27 PM PST by Brett66
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To: NormsRevenge
Ew Norm! You posted from the SacraMENTAL Bee! I hope you bathed afterward. ;-)

Seriously, I can't wait to see theese pictures.

4 posted on 03/04/2004 7:51:05 PM PST by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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To: NormsRevenge
JPL said engineers identified a software bug that stopped rover's rock abrasion tool - the so-called "rat" - from working earlier this week and will fix it with new software at the end of this month.

Shouldn't they step up the pace on the software reload just a bit? The rovers only have a 90-day service life as it is.

6 posted on 03/04/2004 7:53:28 PM PST by Johnny_Cipher (Making hasenfeffer out of bunnyrabbits since 1980)
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To: NormsRevenge; Phil V.; ElkGroveDan; from occupied ga; wideminded
Controllers played the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Bad Moon Rising" to kick off the rover's activities for a busy martian day

Groan...

This is getting so old.

The rover created three mosaics with its microscopic camera, recording 128 images with more than 200 arm movements.

Gee, they'd better tell Mr. Rover to calm down. At that rate he's gonna go blind. Maybe they can play some nice, soothing music, to get his mind off those pictures, and give his arm a rest.

12 posted on 03/04/2004 10:17:24 PM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Phil V.
While we're waiting for the picture of the Deimos eclipse, here's a stereo analglyph from Spirit and "Humphrey" that I made this morning. I also took out some, but not all of the fisheye lens curvature. I'm still working on a comfortable balance between distortion at the edges verses the center of the image.


16 posted on 03/05/2004 9:31:04 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
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To: NormsRevenge; Phil V.
DEIMOS ECLIPS PICS ARE IN!!

That's all folks!

17 posted on 03/05/2004 10:09:08 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
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To: NormsRevenge
I hope Arthur C. Clarke is watching this. Although not exactly the same thing, his Transit of Earth described the exact same feeling of wonderment that I'm feeling right now.
21 posted on 03/05/2004 8:23:40 PM PST by RightWingAtheist
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