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Photos from Mars' Victoria Crater (Caution: Photo-intense)
NASA ^ | 10/6/06 | NASA

Posted on 10/06/2006 11:59:34 AM PDT by DoctorMichael



Photo shows the area in which Opportunity landed, the track outlined path it took over two years to negotiate 6 miles of desert to Victoria Crater


Victoria Crater.



The Mars-orbiting NASA satellite took a picture as it
passed Victoria Crater and actually captured the Rover
sitting on the edge of the crater.........A blow-up of
the satellite photo showing Opportunity sitting on the crater's rim


False color looking North to Cape Verde; great rock layers to explore.


Looking Southeast across Duck Bay.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanachievement; bigholeinground; falsecolor; hirise; mars; mro; nasa; noair; opportunity; rocks; rocksandmorerocks; sand2
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To: DoctorMichael

OK, who's the first guy whose going to set up a hot dog stand at the edge of that crater?


21 posted on 10/06/2006 12:17:07 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: 6SJ7
Nice to get away from the terrestrial concerns for a bit with stuff like this.

I know what you mean.

The idiocy and blatant partisanship of the US media covering (Shilling?) stuff in DC, plus the Amish-story, has made for a bummer week.

22 posted on 10/06/2006 12:19:36 PM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell

"Is that water in the crater? Looks like it to me."
Looks more like tripe to me! (3rd pic)


23 posted on 10/06/2006 12:22:24 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: MineralMan
very very VERY large image here: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20061006b/873_1780_RGBcolor.jpg
24 posted on 10/06/2006 12:22:32 PM PDT by frankenMonkey (Are there any men left in Washington, or are they all cowards?)
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To: Bobkk47
Maybe this guy (after he conquers all the Earthlings)?
25 posted on 10/06/2006 12:24:09 PM PDT by Cecily (`)
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To: DoctorMichael

Absolutely INCREDIBLE! Thanks for the post.


26 posted on 10/06/2006 12:24:13 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Please do not emanate into the penumbra.)
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To: DoctorMichael
It's amazing to think that if one were standing next to the rover, no matter how far he could see or travel, he would not encounter a single living thing. No animals, no plants; nothing living on the surface of the planet. You can bet he'd be calling the rover "Rover".

"Rooooooverrrrrrrrrrrr!"

27 posted on 10/06/2006 12:25:10 PM PDT by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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To: Shellback Chuck

3 Plutonic Months! Hope I can last that long!


28 posted on 10/06/2006 12:25:51 PM PDT by Young Werther
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To: Victoria Delsoul

"Crater on Mars named after you" ping. LOL.


29 posted on 10/06/2006 12:27:39 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Shellback Chuck
I thought these rovers were only supposed to last 3 months....wow.

This thing has lasted longer than my father's Crown Victoria.
30 posted on 10/06/2006 12:29:28 PM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell

The flat feature in the bottom of the crater is very common on Mars. It looks like water, but it is dust.


31 posted on 10/06/2006 12:30:28 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Calvin Locke

Huh, another government program that refuses to die.

Yeah, kind of like welfare in America!


32 posted on 10/06/2006 12:30:38 PM PDT by buck61
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To: buck61

Personally, I think this is pretty exciting, and it's money well spent.


33 posted on 10/06/2006 12:32:43 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: DoctorMichael; All

What does this thing run on?

I thought the mission was only 3 months too!

Solar, mini nuke or battery?


34 posted on 10/06/2006 12:32:59 PM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Got towel?)
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To: frankenMonkey

Whoa! That is large. Thanks!


35 posted on 10/06/2006 12:33:41 PM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Solar.


36 posted on 10/06/2006 12:33:42 PM PDT by Strategerist (Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves)
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To: DoctorMichael

It looks like there is a nice ramp that will lead to the crater floor. Love to see what those crazed, dried mud looking features are in there.


37 posted on 10/06/2006 12:34:08 PM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

It's battery recharged by solar.


38 posted on 10/06/2006 12:34:40 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: DoctorMichael

I'm waiting for the looter guy to show up in a picture.


39 posted on 10/06/2006 12:34:58 PM PDT by Vision ("As a man thinks...so is he." Proverbs 23:7)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
God got some glue on his finger when he was building the planet, and it left a fingerprint on the surface.

Hey, it happened to me when I was building a plastic model as a kid!

40 posted on 10/06/2006 12:35:32 PM PDT by Fudd
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