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1 posted on 01/12/2007 3:33:03 PM PST by blam

2 posted on 01/12/2007 3:35:24 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)

To: KevinDavis; sig226

3 posted on 01/12/2007 3:36:16 PM PST by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)

To: blam; Molly Pitcher

Sojourner, which appears to have crawled towards Pathfinder after the lander had already died.

I know its only a machine...it was trying to get back to the mothership.

4 posted on 01/12/2007 3:36:21 PM PST by Dog

No pictures of the Cydonia complex? I sense a cover up.

8 posted on 01/12/2007 3:50:25 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup

14 posted on 01/12/2007 3:59:48 PM PST by Sopater (Creatio Ex Nihilo)

Perhaps it can also spot the European probe that presumably crashed (at one of the poles if I recall correctly) several years ago.

16 posted on 01/12/2007 4:42:27 PM PST by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)

It may also have found the mission's tiny rover, Sojourner, which appears to have crawled towards Pathfinder after the lander had already died.

That's creepy.

18 posted on 01/12/2007 5:08:18 PM PST by gotribe (There's still time to begin a war in Iraq.)

I didn't know Rover was lost....that's is why there are microchips, so you can always find a lost Rover.

21 posted on 01/12/2007 5:29:57 PM PST by Kimmers (It's not what you take when you leave this world behind, it's what you leave behind when you go)

Laaaaaaaasie! Come home!

22 posted on 01/12/2007 5:38:42 PM PST by Gumlegs

To: blam; RadioAstronomer; Physicist; AndrewC

It's the lack of diversity that kills me in these martian photos.

On Earth, early Man found gold on the surface, exposed to the elements. Ditto for iron and coal ("the rock that burns") and salt.

On Mars...nothing. Barren. Where are the gemstones? No diamonds? No opals? No rubies?

Can NASA even take a picture of some quartz on Mars? Flint?

At most I've seen are minerals such as carbonates, silicates, hydroxides, sulfates, hydrothermal silica, oxides, and phosphates. Lots of basaltic rocks, of course.

23 posted on 01/12/2007 5:46:09 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)

Lost rover? I never realized Sojourner was lost. It lasted for two months longer than its one month design.

25 posted on 01/12/2007 9:13:18 PM PST by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)

New Mars orbiter spots landing site of 1997 Pathfinder probe
ap on Riverside Press Enterprise | 1/11/07 | AP
Posted on 01/12/2007 12:25:05 AM EST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766329/posts

related to Mars probes:

Probe's Powerful Camera Spots Vikings On Mars
New Scientist | 12-5-2006 | David Chandler
Posted on 12/05/2006 1:18:35 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748821/posts

Mars team teaches old rovers new tricks
SpaceFlight Now | December 29, 2006 | NASA/JPL NEWS RELEASE
Posted on 12/30/2006 5:12:11 PM EST by Unmarked Package
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760417/posts

Martian robot rovers near 3rd anniversary
Statesman.com | 12/31/06 | Mike Toner
Posted on 01/01/2007 1:18:27 PM EST by LdSentinal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760951/posts

Scientist: Human error may have doomed Mars Global Surveyor
The Mercury News | 10 January 2007 | ALICIA CHANG
Posted on 01/11/2007 4:46:51 AM EST by burzu
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765770/posts

26 posted on 01/30/2007 11:03:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they're not." -- John Rummel)

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