http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/83222
RJS
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Fred and Dana, they even acknowledge water on Mars.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/12/planet-mars/mars-photography
FYI - RJS
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You just have to watch these little movies of the New 'Rover'- Mars Science Laboratory. Launch in 2009 and landing in 2010-just down the road.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/gallery/videos.html#MSL_EDL
Talk about 'alien'...this little device would wake up the Klaatu and Gort in all of us!!
I like it. In fact, I like it a lot!
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Fred
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/pancam/2008-11-23/1P280527419ESF94B2P2280L5M1.JPG
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http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/msl/program_for_the_first_msl_workshop.htm
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The Meridiani Journal
a chronicle of planetary exploration
web.me.com/meridianijournal
some times you have to look at things as if it's brand new.I have been reading about planets and history since I was a child.
Now that we know for a fact that water is on mars.My theroy has always been correct since i learned about "the face" and cydonia.
Let's put something to rest really fast.MARS IS NOT EARTH.therefore NO EARTH FACTS or biology will apply!!! at all.
We humans needs water and oxygen to live on earth!(earth is blue and green becuase of the life it supports,Well if mars is red becuase of the life that IT supports?)
Now mars is a different case study.
Nobody on this planet is qualified to explain a damn thing about mars.All we can do is lie and speculate intelligent bullshit known as theories.
We can also look at how mars and earth are physically alike,but thats' it.
our technology cant explain what mars is really like.
We may be able to survive on mars as we are.
We wont know that until we get there.
And we also need a way to get there fast.
I get feed up with scientists that perfect the wrong way of going about things.
yes We make milestones and breakthroughs but we dont fix our major issue.Getting to mars in a few hours and not years.The questions are how do we do.and by what means do we do it.
i would love to learn to new stuff that's why i am here.
i want to a planetary specialist,but I would like to get there in my life time with out wasting time getting to and from.
From observation on life in general.Physics is a theory with tools and information that support it.
so we need new technology or type of " physics" that can make it worth our while to travel into space
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In all there is a lot of science still to be done from the data that came down but in my view it has been a good mission given the accumulated circumstances.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10092897-52.html
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Fred
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plIgTG9x-A
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Still lots to to be seen.
sol 1683 ( Sep 27, 2008 ) vertical layer detail:
with a link to a location 3D.
Er, exactly how did this happen? What local geological forces can tilt a layered bed this way relative to close ( meters away ) flat beds?
Is it possible that the layers were created standing up?
Another puzzle:
sol 1692 ( Oct 6, 2008 ) super resulution of broken rock:
broken by the rover?
What's the "stuff" on the fracture on the left hand side of the rock? Internal inclusions revealed by the fracture? Mineral coating after the fracture?
The top of the rock has multiple lighter coatings of minerals.
If this were an Earth rock then what would be a good guess about it's origin and composition?
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Phoenix Mission Status Report October 29, 2008
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander entered safe mode late yesterday in
response to a low-power fault brought on by deteriorating weather conditions. While
engineers anticipated that a fault could occur due to the diminishing power supply, the
lander also unexpectedly switched to the "B" side of its redundant electronics and shut
down one of its two batteries.
During safe mode, the lander stops non-critical activities and awaits further instructions
from the mission team. Within hours of receiving information of the safing event, mission
engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and at Lockheed Martin
in Denver, were able to send commands to restart battery charging. It is not likely that any
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Weather conditions at the landing site in the north polar region of Mars have deteriorated
in recent days, with overnight temperatures falling to --141F (-96C), and daytime
temperatures only as high as -50F (-45C), the lowest temperatures experienced so far in the
mission. A mild dust storm blowing through the area, along with water-ice clouds, further
complicated the situation by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the lander's solar
arrays, thereby reducing the amount of power it could generate. Low temperatures caused
the lander's battery heaters to turn on Tuesday for the first time, creating another drain on
precious power supplies.
Science activities will remain on hold for the next several days to allow the spacecraft to
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before the weekend.
"This is a precarious time for Phoenix," said Phoenix Project Manager Barry Goldstein of
JPL. "We're in the bonus round of the extended mission, and we're aware that the end
could come at any time. The engineering team is doing all it can to keep the spacecraft
alive and collecting science, but at this point survivability depends on some factors out of
our control, such as the weather and temperatures on Mars."
The ability to communicate with the spacecraft has not been impacted. However, the team
decided to cancel communication sessions Wednesday morning in order to conserve
spacecraft power. The next communication pass is anticipated at 9:30 p.m. PDT
Wednesday.
Yesterday, the mission announced plans to turn off four heaters, one at a time, in an effort
to preserve power. The faults experienced late Tuesday prompted engineers to command
the lander to shut down two heaters instead of one as originally planned. One of those
heaters warmed electronics for Phoenix's robotic arm, robotic-arm camera, and thermal and
evolved-gas analyzer (TEGA), an instrument that bakes and sniffs Martian soil to assess
volatile ingredients. The second heater served the lander's pyrotechnic initiation unit,
which hasn't been used since landing. By turning off selected heaters, the mission hopes
to preserve power and prolong the use of the lander's camera and meteorological
instruments.
Originally scheduled to last 90 days, Phoenix has completed a fifth month of exploration in
the Martian arctic. As the Martian northern hemisphere shifts from summer to autumn, the
lander was expected to generate less power due to fewer hours of sunlight reaching its
solar panels. "It could be a matter of days, or weeks, before the daily power generated by
Phoenix is less than needed to operate the spacecraft," said JPL mission manager Chris
Lewicki. "We have only a few options left to reduce the energy usage."
The Phoenix mission is led by Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson, with
project management at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and development partnership at
Lockheed Martin, Denver. International contributions come from the Canadian Space
Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and
Aarhus in Denmark; the Max Planck Institute in Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological
Institute. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
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Notice in the closeup. a possible additional circular 'vent' or imapt structure at the same level on the fissure.
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As NASA is describing the Cerberus Fossae as a tectonic feature, are these items too old to be a part of the Cerberus structure, and was this a buried simple impact crater. Is it actually a full crater circle, perhaps even an old non-impact vent?
Does the structural integrity reveal that the area was not a dusty plain with a thick mantle of particulate?
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NASA's Spitzer Gets Sneak Peek Inside Comet Holmes 10.13.08
Observations taken of the comet after the explosion by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope deepen the mystery, showing oddly behaving streamers in the shell of dust surrounding the nucleus of the comet. The data also offer a rare look at the material liberated from within the nucleus, and confirm previous findings from NASA's Stardust and Deep Impact missions ... cont. at link above.
