Rock too hard for a diamond drill? or some sort of equipment failure?
To: Mark Felton
"Krytonite"
2 posted on
03/08/2004 4:59:46 PM PST by
_Jim
( <--- Ann C. and Rush L. speak on gutless Liberals (RealAudio files))
To: Mark Felton
"
The twin rovers' $820 million mission was designed to seek geological clues..."
Every article from an outside news source (not NASA) has to quote the price of the mission. Why?
To: Mark Felton
the tool left "no discernible impression on the rock," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported. Hard Rock found on Mars!
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I love those rovers!!!!
To: Mark Felton
Rock bites dog?
10 posted on
03/08/2004 5:23:10 PM PST by
thoughtomator
(Political Correctness is fascism)
To: Mark Felton
"The rover was to use its rock abrasion tool Sunday to grind away at a martian outcropping dubbed "Flat Rock," but the tool left "no discernible impression on the rock," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported. ""Rock too hard for a diamond drill? or some sort of equipment failure?"
""Krytonite" "
c'mon guys. you're brutal
what do you expect for $3 billion dollars?
its made out of "lego's"
14 posted on
03/08/2004 6:01:23 PM PST by
hoot2
To: Mark Felton
There is a vein of quartzite under Broadway, NYC. Even with heavy-duty water-cooled diamond core drilling rigs, that's one tough job. I doubt the mars drill has a fraction of the pressure or variable speed.
To: Mark Felton
but the tool left "no discernible impression on the rock," metal? NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported.
16 posted on
03/08/2004 7:29:17 PM PST by
Indie
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