What Gives- June 20, 2008 The post on the black speck below prompted me to checkout some shots from the raw pic site, and I noticed something weird from the navcam on 619. These 2 shot are one after the other on the list: http:qt.exploratorium.edumarsspiritnavcam2008-06-192N246386772EFFAVMAF0006L0M1.JPG http:qt.exploratorium.edumarsspiritnavcam2008-06-192N246475204EFFAVPBP1566L0M1.JPG How does the view of the foreground change so dramatically I suppose that one shot is on the edge of a ridge, and the other is a...http://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss-71441-what-gives.html Basic Life- June 20, 2008 Well folks, here are 2 good underpinning articles written several years ago which make complete sense to me and now have my attention with respect to Martian life and the possibility for it to turn up. I can imagine there are many in here and other good folks that have passed through this Blog with or without intentions of understanding Martian life let alone our own and these 2 works will open the mind a bit. I for one didn't really care about microbes and any other pint-sized organisms on...http://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss-basic-life.html Meet the Spacecraft That Could Save NASA a Fortune- June 20, 2008 NASA scientists have built a dynamic little spacecraft in record time. It may someday rendezvous with asteroids, orbit Earth or Mars, and land on the moon -- for roughly one tenth the price of a conventional unmanned mission. "This spacecraft will allow NASA to launch more missions, for less money," says William Marshall, a member of the team that built the satellite. "In the 1960's landing on the Moon took a team of thousands of people. Today that same task can be done with 30." The new...http://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss-meet-the-spacecraft-that-could-save-nasa-a-fortune.ht... black spot in sky- June 19, 2008 At the Spirit location: http:qt.exploratorium.edumarsspiritnavcam2008-06-152N245321202EFFAVFUF0006L0M1.JPG http:qt.exploratorium.edumarsspiritnavcam2008-06-152N245321277EFFAVFUF0006L0M1.JPG http:qt.exploratorium.edumarsspiritnavcam2008-06-152N245321374EFFAVFUF0006L0M1.JPG Speck on lenshttp://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss-71410-black-spot-in-sky.html Phoenix heat shield- June 18, 2008 I would like to know what materials have they used to build Phoenix heat shield able to resist to thousands of degrees.http://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss-71364-phoenix-heat-shield.html Layers in the new trench- June 17, 2008 RAC super 3D view of new trench: Wow. distinct parallel payers. At least 3. Anyone expect thathttp://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss-layers-in-the-new-trench.html Soil_Particles_in_OM_of_Phoenix_site- June 15, 2008 The Optical Microscope, and the various substrate bases, and, the nanobuckets screen for the AFM(Atomic Force Microscope), are providing a background for viewing the first closeup soil samples. The particles are challenging and deserve attention from both geologistscrystallographers and biologistastrobiology persons. I'll display for all, available for downloading, some enlarged views, some altered, of the particles in these first views. Add yours to cover my omissions, better my images, and,.http://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss-71279-soil_particles_in_om_of_phoenix_site.html Discovery issue- June 13, 2008 Crew describes object floating away and bump on rudder Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:22:18 AM EDT In conversations on NASA Television, space shuttle Discovery astronauts, completing a standard day-before-landing test of the shuttle steering jets, called Mission Control and indicated they had seen a one foot to 1.5-foot-long object floating away from the shuttle, from behind the rear portion of the right wing. They said it appeared to be a rectangular object. The crew captured a few seconds of video of..http://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss-discovery-issue.html |