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Mars Rover Encounters Dune
JPL Rover website ^
| 29 April 2005
| NASA photo
Posted on 04/29/2005 2:18:48 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Fitzcarraldo
To: Zuben Elgenubi
Would not the sand have to be moist in order to 'pack on over the cleats"?
Back in my dune buggy days dry sand never stuck to rubber OR to stainless....
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posted on
04/29/2005 5:13:32 PM PDT
by
norton
(build a wall and post the rules at the gate)
To: Bones75
"...What is it about the human brain that makes that crater look like a bump..." It isn't the human brain, it's the loss of depth perception...shadow cast from/shadow cast onto look the same because you have no way of seeing the third dimension.
(Photo interpretation was a fun thing...but apt to be embarrassing)
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posted on
04/29/2005 5:17:44 PM PDT
by
norton
(build a wall and post the rules at the gate)
To: norton
Having said that, and finally seen the image...that is a weird looking bump/hole, depression with hard thingie in middle, or just a planetary zit.
But it is weird.
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posted on
04/29/2005 5:22:49 PM PDT
by
norton
(build a wall and post the rules at the gate)
To: Fitzcarraldo
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posted on
04/29/2005 5:31:03 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Liberals are good examples of why some animals eat their young.)
To: norton
Would not the sand have to be moist in order to 'pack on over the cleats"?Excellent observation. I'll bet the scientists are scratching their heads over this.
To: StevieB
I'm happy to say I had a tiny role in the build of one tiny part of them.
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posted on
04/29/2005 5:36:05 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Proud parent of Vermont's 6th grade state chess champion.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
The next generation NASA rover.
This could be trouble...
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posted on
04/29/2005 5:43:48 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(But what do I know? I'm just a right-wing nut in his PJs whackin' on a keyboard..)
To: norton
Let me try again. I posted the wrong orientations last time and they tended to look the same. What I wanted to show was when they look different. I find it very easy to see the first one as a bump but very hard to see the second as a bump. The usual explanation of, "We're used to the sun coming from the top not the bottom," just doesn't seem to do it for me. Maybe I'm nuts for trying to find deeper meaning, but that's how I am.
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posted on
04/29/2005 6:35:07 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Right Wing Assault
Take one of those plastic two piece easter eggs that come with indigestible candy in them...
lay one side down and the other up (you know what I mean) and look at the shadows.
Then (if you can) look straight down on them, or just imagine it; it ain't you, it's universal.
Even reversed, they are virtually impossible to tell...especially in black and white.
(Steroiscopic viewers do the trick so long as your initial orientation is correct)
IF you ever get the chance (?) to fly over California/Arizona/Etc. take a window seat and try to keep track of what is up and what is down......'taint easy and I've lived there most of my life.
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posted on
04/29/2005 9:03:34 PM PDT
by
norton
(build a wall and post the rules at the gate)
To: Fintan; potlatch
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posted on
04/29/2005 9:22:16 PM PDT
by
devolve
(My WWII Tribute: http://pro.lookingat.us/WhiteCliffsOfDover.html - more traffic than DU-Koz-LDot -)
To: devolve
Haven't read the article but it looks like Bubba is going to get run over by a moon Rover or something!!
93
posted on
04/29/2005 9:27:14 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: potlatch
Bubbas our new liason to Mars.
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posted on
04/29/2005 9:29:30 PM PDT
by
devolve
(My WWII Tribute: http://pro.lookingat.us/WhiteCliffsOfDover.html - more traffic than DU-Koz-LDot -)
To: devolve
Great news!! The red planet matches his nose!
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posted on
04/29/2005 9:31:02 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: Eaker
They should have put their money into those bouncy air shocks.
Considering Mars gravity, that sucker would jump about ten feet into the air.
L
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posted on
04/29/2005 9:33:28 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Remember the Beirut Bombing; 243 dead Marines. The House of Assad and Hezbollah did it..)
To: Right Wing Assault
I understand what you are saying. It is weird.
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posted on
04/29/2005 11:18:41 PM PDT
by
texasflower
("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
To: HKMk23
"a teflon coated titanuim sphincter"
Soon to be the latest craze.....LOL
To: SWAMPSNIPER
They should have used a real Jeep, it wouldn't be stuck! For real, huh???
It's a Jeep thing--they wouldn't understand.
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:11:13 AM PDT
by
cherry_bomb88
("Being PC is being un-fun!!!!" Army Air Corps)
To: nuconvert; Fitzcarraldo
Neat. Doesn't look real. lol It's not...don't you know they are making this up like the moon landing?? This is really some movie set in the deserts of Nevada. /sarcasm
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:12:52 AM PDT
by
cherry_bomb88
("Being PC is being un-fun!!!!" Army Air Corps)
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