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I hope today's shuttle launch goes well...but!... - Jacob Samorodin - 6/8/2007 10:54:19 PM
- still go - DWC - 6/8/2007 11:15:57 PM
  - re: still go - Raoul - 6/8/2007 11:34:28 PM
    - In orbit (n/t) - dwc - 6/8/2007 11:55:24 PM
      - About the gap in the thermal blanket - Raoul - 6/9/2007 7:34:10 PM
        
        It's not serious....another big relief...Murphy's Law wasn't too severe this time. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 6/9/2007 11:47:22 PM
        
        Entire Pitchover on TV!!! - Raoul - 6/10/2007 6:45:55 PM
      - A big relief....A much bigger relief if all 13 shuttle launches coming up go just as well. - Jacob Samorodin - 6/9/2007 6:59:12 PM
    - GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! (n/t) - Raoul - 6/8/2007 11:39:47 PM
      - Superb images!! Ok, see you tomorrow! (n/t) - Raoul - 6/8/2007 11:52:27 PM
        
        re: Superb Picture! - Raoul - 6/10/2007 8:11:29 AM
        
        1 hour after launch - Raoul - 6/9/2007 7:45:02 AM
        
        ISS 40 minutes before launch, by John Locker - Raoul - 6/9/2007 9:48:40 AM
        
        Where's that damaged tile located? (OMS pod?) (n/t) - Raoul - 6/9/2007 10:37:29 AM
        
        Ok, docked to ISS! (n/t) - Raoul - 6/10/2007 7:50:24 PM
        
        ISS and Atlantis seen at 20:30 UT!! - Raoul - 6/10/2007 8:42:43 PM
        
        re: ISS and Atlantis seen again at 22:07 UT!! (n/t) - Raoul - 6/10/2007 10:23:13 PM

The sun, live, in H-Alpha (current sunspots - Raoul - 6/10/2007 2:03:27 PM
- All I see is Venus (n/t) - Lindy - 6/10/2007 8:50:45 PM
  - Normal: the sun has set (n/t) - Raoul - 6/10/2007 8:52:55 PM

Bioengineering: creating Life 2.0 - TB - 6/4/2007 10:40:37 PM
- I think it's great! - Lee - 6/5/2007 3:09:35 AM
  - I agree!!! Go for it! (n/t) - Delbert - 6/5/2007 4:02:42 PM
    - Microbesoft? - TheSheepLookUp - 6/8/2007 3:21:03 PM
      - Genetic programming will be a huge field in the coming decades. - Lee - 6/9/2007 5:22:56 PM
        
        20 years? not so simple - nick hoffman - 6/10/2007 2:27:18 PM
        
        You're right. - Lee - 6/10/2007 4:16:03 PM

1,200 HIRISE images released with high resolution viewer. - Robert Clark - 6/5/2007 1:03:51 PM
- Try the viewer on the "cave" image - Robert Clark - 6/5/2007 1:08:46 PM
  - No need to download the image. - Robert Clark - 6/8/2007 8:57:06 AM
    - re: No need to download the image. - nick hoffman - 6/8/2007 3:35:59 PM
      - Raw JP2 image - TB - 6/9/2007 1:02:45 AM
        
        re: Raw JP2 image - Robert Clark - 6/9/2007 11:37:08 AM
        
        Viewer seems to work. - TB - 6/10/2007 1:30:01 AM
      - re: No need to download the image. - Robert Clark - 6/8/2007 5:16:42 PM
  - re: Try the viewer on the "cave" image - gil - 6/7/2007 10:36:28 PM
    - The question is... - TheSheepLookUp - 6/8/2007 11:46:05 AM
      - Liquid? - nick hoffman - 6/8/2007 3:32:33 PM
        
        re: Liquid? - TheSheepLookUp - 6/8/2007 7:45:13 PM
        
        I think somebody already made the "My God It's Full of Stars!" joke. - TB - 6/9/2007 2:40:50 AM
        
        Maybe it's proof of the Langoliers. (n/t) - Lee - 6/10/2007 3:38:17 AM
        
        Hey, the first "hole" thread has reappeared! - TB - 6/10/2007 3:52:14 AM
  - re: Link - Raoul - 6/5/2007 7:01:06 PM
    - An Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars - TheSheepLookUp - 6/8/2007 9:14:19 PM

A plain in Mars, nothing special....and then..ooops,a whole!! - Raoul - 5/26/2007 8:04:56 PM
- The secret entrance to the Martian Underground... - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/2/2007 8:35:36 PM
  - Up to now.... - Raoul - 6/2/2007 11:44:42 PM
- re: A plain in Mars, nothing special....and then..ooops,a whole!! - TAFKASE - 6/1/2007 9:17:18 PM
- Digital Mirage - nick hoffman - 5/30/2007 1:24:21 AM
  - OK, I'm wrong - nick hoffman - 6/5/2007 8:37:03 AM
    - Thanks! - TB - 6/5/2007 4:08:53 PM
  - re: Digital Mirage - Buck Galaxy - 5/31/2007 6:03:58 AM
  - re: Digital Mirage - excentryk - 5/30/2007 11:19:51 PM
  - re: Digital Mirage - confirmation - nick hoffman - 5/30/2007 6:45:39 AM
    - The plot thickens... - nick hoffman - 5/31/2007 12:45:48 PM
      - We might be making too much of this - TB - 5/31/2007 4:32:27 PM
        
        Apparently there are plans to picture the same area... - Raoul - 6/3/2007 6:20:54 PM
        
        re: We might be making too much of this - N R A Hoffman - 5/31/2007 11:45:22 PM
        
        I can not find an MOC image for those exact coordinates. - REB - 5/31/2007 6:46:36 PM
        
        I am searching through the MOC files for it. I found another one very close to it. - REB - 5/31/2007 5:57:40 PM
        
        And notice that dark layering in those collapsed lava tubes. - REB - 5/31/2007 6:06:37 PM
  - re: Lots of relief, etc.., - Raoul - 5/30/2007 5:37:58 AM
    - re: Lots of relief, etc.., - Marcia - 6/1/2007 1:46:52 AM
  - I don't think so... - TB - 5/30/2007 4:27:49 AM
    - re: I don't think so... - nick hoffman - 5/30/2007 5:51:43 AM
      - Try OpenEV. - Robert Clark - 5/30/2007 7:10:43 PM
      - re: I don't think so... - TB - 5/30/2007 5:53:10 PM
      - re: I don't think so... - REB - 5/30/2007 3:36:30 PM
  - Sunlit floor of proposed skylight Dena (8.5 mb) - pb - 5/30/2007 2:56:21 AM
    - "Dena" is a little different. - nick hoffman - 5/30/2007 3:32:31 AM
      - Thanks - pb - 5/30/2007 4:30:31 AM
- This is probably the most fascinating mars picture I have seen yet... - Arrell - 5/29/2007 6:50:31 PM
- Does it still look like a HOLE??? (image enhanced) - Raoul - 5/28/2007 8:18:51 AM
  - terraces - nick hoffman - 5/30/2007 5:56:29 AM
  - As you pointed out in another post... - TB - 5/28/2007 4:47:34 PM
    - Maybe it is a liquid. - Lee - 5/28/2007 7:05:35 PM
      - How about once liquid? - REB - 5/29/2007 12:57:31 PM
        
        re: How about once liquid? - Marcia - 6/1/2007 2:05:21 AM
        
        Very white ice cap covering a hot spring? - REB - 6/1/2007 1:46:08 PM
        
        A volcanic crater filled with obsidian would be cool. - Lee - 5/29/2007 6:53:23 PM
- These holes should be a top priority for Scout or New Horizon type missions - Buck Galaxy - 5/27/2007 9:16:38 PM
- Short Scientific paper on the Martian holes - folcwine - 5/27/2007 12:54:53 AM
  - Could multicellular life exist in such caves? - Robert Clark - 5/29/2007 2:50:42 PM
  - re: The hole is in APOD, today! - Raoul - 5/28/2007 8:36:23 AM
    - re: The hole is in APOD, today! - It's not just the large one, but there are a few other smaller ones. - Marcia - 5/28/2007 5:04:30 PM
      - Maybe it's one huge cavern with several holes.... - Raoul - 5/28/2007 5:45:14 PM
        
        re: Maybe it's one huge cavern with several holes.... yes. - Marcia - 5/28/2007 6:18:38 PM
      - re: The hole is in APOD, today! - It's possible that... - Marcia - 5/28/2007 5:17:20 PM
  - MOC image of sun lit floor of Dena - pb - 5/27/2007 8:32:47 AM
    - Found it (8.5 mb) - pb - 5/30/2007 2:57:51 AM
- It's the shadow of Phobos. (n/t) - Lee - 5/26/2007 10:25:41 PM
  - It shows a real rim on the closeup photos. Just no bottom. (n/t) - TB - 5/26/2007 10:55:32 PM
    - Yeah, I noticed that after I posted. - Lee - 5/27/2007 2:06:07 AM
- And that's not the only one - TB - 5/26/2007 9:52:38 PM
- re: A plain "on" Mars... (n/t) - Raoul - 5/26/2007 8:06:01 PM
  - RE:That's really incredible - Daniel - 5/26/2007 1:17:26 PM - Ted Ferdinand - 5/30/2007 5:11:34 AM
  - That's really incredible - Daniel - 5/26/2007 8:17:26 PM
    - Several mysteries discussed - Raoul - 5/28/2007 7:44:42 AM
    - Fascinating! Potential for a human base there? - Buck Galaxy - 5/26/2007 9:22:16 PM
      - re: Potential for a human base there? - TB - 5/26/2007 9:57:23 PM
      - Can we learn anything by hitting it with radar? - TB - 5/26/2007 9:46:07 PM
        
        MOLA? - pb - 5/27/2007 9:19:02 AM
        
        Or,... maybe MOLA data already exists? - pb - 5/29/2007 7:20:52 AM
        
        re: Sun overhead - Raoul - 5/27/2007 8:19:28 AM
        
        So who will be the first to go in there? - richard - 5/27/2007 6:51:39 PM
        
        Likely a mountain climber robot with a harpoon (n/t) - Raoul - 5/27/2007 7:08:31 PM
        
        Why not a MER? - Lee - 5/27/2007 8:21:39 PM
        
        MERs should be standard equipment. - Lee - 5/27/2007 10:47:30 PM
        
        Where would it get its energy if the Sun doesn't shine in the hole? (n/t) - Raoul - 5/29/2007 7:32:26 AM
        
        The MER wouldn't go into the hole. - Lee - 5/29/2007 11:21:23 AM
        
        MER would make a good platform - Fox - 5/30/2007 4:00:19 AM
        
        Good idea except make it of the Pathfinder class. - Robert Clark - 5/29/2007 2:05:39 PM
        
        It didn't last very long and Sojourner also had solar panels (n/t) - Raoul - 5/29/2007 4:03:45 PM
        
        The trick will be finding a wench who's any good at fishing. (n/t) - TB - 5/27/2007 10:35:41 PM
        
        I'd prefer a mermaid over a sea hag. ;) (n/t) - Lee - 5/27/2007 10:50:39 PM
        
        A good idea (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 5/27/2007 9:10:19 PM
        
        Water? - Jeff F - 5/27/2007 8:12:40 PM
        
        re: Water? - Jeff F - 5/27/2007 8:13:17 PM
        
        No radar image - Raoul - 5/27/2007 10:26:32 PM
        
        re: No radar image - ed - 6/10/2007 2:14:02 AM
        
        The first (an last) words of the first astronaut to come upon the Hole of Mars - edgar - 5/28/2007 9:45:39 PM
        
        "My god ... it's full of stars!" (n/t) - D - 5/31/2007 3:45:59 AM

ESA Tilts at Windmills - phil - 6/8/2007 3:37:43 PM
- Another useful technique to develop... - TB - 6/9/2007 12:59:58 AM
  - I'm glad you didn't suggest using a nuke. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 6/9/2007 7:02:09 PM

Delta-v to NEOs - gbaikie - 6/1/2007 7:58:11 AM
- Cool link - Adam - 6/1/2007 9:32:50 AM
  - re: Cool link - gbaikie - 6/3/2007 4:16:53 AM
    - My brain hurts... - Adam - 6/3/2007 4:59:00 AM
      - re: My brain hurts... - gbaikie - 6/3/2007 9:54:55 PM
        
        Optimal Vex - Adam - 6/5/2007 12:41:29 PM
        
        re: Optimal Vex - gbaikie - 6/6/2007 12:30:24 AM
        
        Funny thing... - Adam - 6/6/2007 10:02:04 AM
        
        re: Funny thing... - gbaikie - 6/6/2007 12:06:15 PM
        
        Hah *bloody* hah - Adam - 6/7/2007 10:27:10 AM
        
        re: Hah *bloody* hah - gbaikie - 6/8/2007 2:20:37 AM
        
        re: Hah *bloody* hah - gbaikie - 6/9/2007 1:27:34 AM

Space Telescope:will the WFC3 replace the ACS...in our hearts? - Raoul - 6/8/2007 6:37:30 PM

The most massive star known (HST) - Raoul - 6/7/2007 8:18:04 PM
- Is 114 times the Sun's mass really the most massive star known? - TB - 6/7/2007 10:07:09 PM
  - Previously, it wasn't one but a group of stars (Pistol?) (n/t) - Raoul - 6/8/2007 5:34:08 AM
    - Why don't white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes count? - TheSheepLookUp - 6/8/2007 3:22:41 PM
      - re: black holes - TB - 6/8/2007 3:55:25 PM

Angels & Spaceflight - phil - 6/8/2007 3:21:05 PM

Did the golf ball come back? - TheSheepLookUp - 6/8/2007 3:18:32 PM

A crescent Moon around Saturn and its plumes (Enceladus) - Raoul - 6/7/2007 8:56:53 PM
- re: Thank you, Raoul. :) (n/t) - Marcia - 6/7/2007 9:51:29 PM
- This one's nice too - TheSheepLookUp - 6/7/2007 9:02:33 PM
  - Links - Raoul - 6/8/2007 5:38:35 AM
    - Thank, Raoul, but... - TheSheepLookUp - 6/8/2007 11:47:49 AM
  - re: This one's nice too - Marcia - 6/7/2007 9:49:52 PM

Kitsou Dubois, weightlessness dancer - Raoul - 6/2/2007 2:11:09 PM
- re: Kitsou Dubois, weightlessness dancer - Marcia - 6/2/2007 9:27:19 PM
  - weightlessness is special! - Raoul - 6/2/2007 11:52:34 PM
    - re: weightlessness is special! - Dirk - 6/6/2007 1:36:58 PM
      - Sounds interesting, thank you! - Raoul - 6/6/2007 9:40:53 PM
    - Yes indeed - promising - Daniel - 6/4/2007 8:13:15 PM
      - Lots of room for creativity!! (n/t) - Raoul - 6/4/2007 9:51:09 PM

Orbiters feel Pain of Aging - carl - 6/5/2007 4:59:20 PM
- What means "aging" for those spacecrafts? - Raoul - 6/5/2007 6:46:24 PM
  - Disposable Spacecraft of the 60's-70's - carl - 6/5/2007 7:08:13 PM
    - It's weakest link that counts, not really the age - Raoul - 6/5/2007 7:25:52 PM
      - TANKS - carl - 6/6/2007 2:08:04 PM
      - the Space.com article does explain exactly that: - Daniel - 6/6/2007 5:55:27 AM
        
        Filament-wound tanks - TB - 6/6/2007 7:15:29 PM
    - The Pioneer and the Voyagers - TheSheepLookUp - 6/5/2007 7:14:59 PM
      - They had one trip - Raoul - 6/5/2007 7:31:40 PM
  - 1998 is old? - TheSheepLookUp - 6/5/2007 6:56:31 PM
    - It could very well be!:) (n/t) - Raoul - 6/5/2007 7:02:28 PM

Flying through an Iraq thunderstorm - REB - 6/6/2007 5:30:58 PM

2 Jupiter moons from the Earth - Raoul - 6/6/2007 5:39:48 AM

"In the Shadow of the Moon" -- see it! - dtb - 6/6/2007 2:47:57 AM
- Thanks! - TB - 6/6/2007 4:06:14 AM

From The Earth To The Moon DVD set on sale for half-price at Amazon for FIVE HOURS - TB - 6/6/2007 1:49:22 AM
- re: From The Earth To The Moon DVD set on sale for half-price at Amazon for FIVE HOURS - dtb - 6/6/2007 2:30:48 AM

An interim report on the scientific context of the Moon exploration - Raoul - 6/5/2007 7:21:58 PM

Mysterious Radio Waves Of Titan - Jeff F - 6/4/2007 8:50:50 PM
- Trying HTML - Raoul - 6/4/2007 9:16:46 PM

14 of the world's leading space agencies agree on joint exploration - Jeff F - 6/4/2007 8:49:34 PM

PVs climbing towards 50% - Adam - 6/3/2007 5:24:20 AM
- re: PVs climbing towards 50% - gbaikie - 6/3/2007 11:25:49 PM
  - Earth-Sun L2 - Adam - 6/4/2007 7:14:53 AM
    - re: Earth-Sun L2 - gbaikie - 6/4/2007 8:21:27 AM

Making hydrogen from water using aluminum/gallium - TB - 5/17/2007 11:05:19 PM
- re: Making hydrogen from water using aluminum/gallium - Mark V. Iverson - 5/21/2007 4:39:51 AM
  - re: Making hydrogen from water using aluminum/gallium - maybe... - 5/26/2007 8:50:07 PM
- Problem #2 -- Energy Demand - dtb - 5/18/2007 8:52:56 PM
  - re: Problem #2 -- Energy Demand - Robert Moskowitz - 5/25/2007 5:44:15 PM
  - re: Problem #2 -- Energy Demand - gbaikie - 5/18/2007 9:35:30 PM
- Problem 1 -- Fuel delivery - dtb - 5/18/2007 8:47:30 PM
  - Those are valid objections. - TB - 5/19/2007 3:07:09 AM
    - re: Those are valid objections. - Jay Zimmerman - 5/21/2007 2:38:35 AM
      - re: Those are valid objections. - Alfonse Ingmann - 6/3/2007 9:20:02 PM
  - re: Problem 1 -- Fuel delivery - gbaikie - 5/18/2007 9:51:52 PM
- re: Making hydrogen from water using aluminum/gallium - bruced - 5/18/2007 4:59:37 AM
  - That's mentioned. - TB - 5/18/2007 6:26:14 AM
- Note: - TB - 5/17/2007 11:09:40 PM
  - re: Note: - gbaikie - 5/18/2007 1:15:47 AM
    - Aluminum causes alzhimers. As do Overhead power lines! (n/t) - A Leftleaner - 5/18/2007 2:57:50 PM
      - And now Scott the idiot troll dumbs down space. - Yeti - 5/18/2007 3:38:41 PM
        
        You can laugh... - TB - 5/18/2007 3:45:11 PM
        
        The point is, this is space. Can we please keep the idiot trolling and the shrieking political idiology to a minimum. (n/t) - Yeti - 5/18/2007 9:58:46 PM
        
        Yeti is just not creative enough to get it. - TAFKASE - 5/18/2007 6:32:51 PM
        
        No, your crap is just too stupid to find funny. (n/t) - Yeti - 5/18/2007 9:59:11 PM
        
        "Messing with Sasquatch" (n/t) - TB - 5/22/2007 4:09:21 AM

Human space scares - Raoul - 6/3/2007 3:40:21 PM

Sunspots arriving!!! - Raoul - 6/2/2007 6:48:26 AM
- re: Sunspots arriving!!! (right side on the picture) - Raoul - 6/2/2007 9:09:51 AM
  - 1 day later - Raoul - 6/3/2007 12:49:39 PM
    - Plenty of Sun pictures with a CaK filter - Raoul - 6/3/2007 2:42:27 PM

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