NA Water on Mars
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LMAO Thanks for the laugh!!
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Thats awesome. That is getting circulated around work now - good find!
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Water on Mars - Reality Check
You want water on mars?
Martian Meterology 101:
SOL 257 Full Frame EDR:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_p257.html
Early morning frost on the calibration tool.
SOL 269 Full Frame EDR:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_n269.html
Cirrus clouds
SOL 282 Dowsampled EDR:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_n282.html
More cirrus clouds
SOL 466:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050506a.html
Dust devils passing by Spirit
SOL 280:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_n280.html
Sedimentary rock. There are just gobs of pictures that look like this stuff all over the place.
Poor Opportunity that took the frost and cloud pictures got itself stuck in the sand dunes on SOL 466 (April 26). It's slowly working itself out but it's going to take a while.
For the rest of the story:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/
And more pictures than you can shake a hard drive at:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/
This is the greatest stuff since Apollo!!
You want water on mars?
Martian Meterology 101:
SOL 257 Full Frame EDR:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_p257.html
Early morning frost on the calibration tool.
SOL 269 Full Frame EDR:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_n269.html
Cirrus clouds
SOL 282 Dowsampled EDR:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_n282.html
More cirrus clouds
SOL 466:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050506a.html
Dust devils passing by Spirit
SOL 280:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_n280.html
Sedimentary rock. There are just gobs of pictures that look like this stuff all over the place.
Poor Opportunity that took the frost and cloud pictures got itself stuck in the sand dunes on SOL 466 (April 26). It's slowly working itself out but it's going to take a while.
For the rest of the story:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/
And more pictures than you can shake a hard drive at:
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/
This is the greatest stuff since Apollo!!
Frank Browne
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Re: Water on Mars - Reality Check
Yes it is! When I was a kid, I followed all of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. My dad even planned our summer vacation to Yellowstone in 1969 so as to be home for the Apollo 11 mission. I remember him setting his Zeiss Icon camera (made in US Zone) on a chair in front of the TV and taking slide photos of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon. I still have the slides somewhere. But NASA's unmanned missions to the outer planets have been nothing short of breathtaking to me!
fgcason said:
Yes it is! When I was a kid, I followed all of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. My dad even planned our summer vacation to Yellowstone in 1969 so as to be home for the Apollo 11 mission. I remember him setting his Zeiss Icon camera (made in US Zone) on a chair in front of the TV and taking slide photos of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon. I still have the slides somewhere. But NASA's unmanned missions to the outer planets have been nothing short of breathtaking to me!
fgcason
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Re: Water on Mars - Reality Check
My dad has a picture of me as a little kid sitting in front of the black and white tv watching Neil step out on the moon live. I remember thinking this is a great world to be on and how much fun things are going to be because we could go to the stars for REAL! Every kid in existence wanted to be an astronaut and it wasn't a drug induced made up hallucination, it was a realistic possibility. It's a crying shame though that adults don't have any long term interest in reality. Twenty years later I managed to meet Buzz Aldrin himself at a book signing (Men From Earth) and I have the book and signature to prove it.
It's amazing how cruddy that black and white picture from the moon was but it beats all the super advanced stuff we have today into the ground because of what it was. I would trade HDTV and go back to cruddy B/W images for the opportunity to walk on the moon.
Today we're astronomers, not astronauts, but at least a few are still marginally allowed to keep the dream alive... and the pictures we get from our robots and telescopes can stop you from breathing for extended periods of time.
Send more robots. LOTS more robots. Send a few people with them to dig them out of the sand pits while we're at it... Best money ever spent in the entire history of civilization IMNSHO.
Frank Browne said:Yes it is! When I was a kid, I followed all of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. My dad even planned our summer vacation to Yellowstone in 1969 so as to be home for the Apollo 11 mission. I remember him setting his Zeiss Icon camera (made in US Zone) on a chair in front of the TV and taking slide photos of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon. I still have the slides somewhere. But NASA's unmanned missions to the outer planets have been nothing short of breathtaking to me!
My dad has a picture of me as a little kid sitting in front of the black and white tv watching Neil step out on the moon live. I remember thinking this is a great world to be on and how much fun things are going to be because we could go to the stars for REAL! Every kid in existence wanted to be an astronaut and it wasn't a drug induced made up hallucination, it was a realistic possibility. It's a crying shame though that adults don't have any long term interest in reality. Twenty years later I managed to meet Buzz Aldrin himself at a book signing (Men From Earth) and I have the book and signature to prove it.
It's amazing how cruddy that black and white picture from the moon was but it beats all the super advanced stuff we have today into the ground because of what it was. I would trade HDTV and go back to cruddy B/W images for the opportunity to walk on the moon.
Today we're astronomers, not astronauts, but at least a few are still marginally allowed to keep the dream alive... and the pictures we get from our robots and telescopes can stop you from breathing for extended periods of time.
Send more robots. LOTS more robots. Send a few people with them to dig them out of the sand pits while we're at it... Best money ever spent in the entire history of civilization IMNSHO.
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Re: Water on Mars - Reality Check
Fantastic PIX, thanks for the links...
Fantastic PIX, thanks for the links...
fgcason said:
Flyboy
Pre-takeoff checklist
How about these I got from intercepting the mars rover signals with a tricked up CB radio.
Frank Browne
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Flyboy said:
LMAO!!
Jeff Oslick
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If we don't hear from Ron for a few days, we'll know NASA confiscated his computer and took him in for a little "neuralizing" .
(Ron, don't look at any funny looking pens being held up by guys in black suits....)
Jeff
.(Ron, don't look at any funny looking pens being held up by guys in black suits....)
Jeff
Frank Browne
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Flyboy said:
Here's another.