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Thar she shows - the far crater rim hoves into view for Spirit - Nick Hoffman - 3/9/2004 4:23:45 PM
- Much better view of rim today. Almost there it seems! - Buck Galaxy - 3/10/2004 7:43:10 AM
  - re: Curious fluid that thin atmosphere of Mars, - Johannes - 3/10/2004 3:14:35 PM
    - Wind - Tom Brosz - 3/10/2004 4:51:04 PM
- re: Thar she shows - the far crater rim hoves into view for Spirit - Nick Hoffman - 3/9/2004 4:26:19 PM

Would JPL risk sending the "Spirit" Mars down to the bottom of the crater, Bonneville? - Jacob Samorodin - 3/10/2004 2:56:40 PM
- re: Would JPL risk - Tom Brosz - 3/10/2004 4:41:27 PM
- re: Would JPL risk sending the "Spirit" Mars [Rover] down to the bottom of the crater, Bonneville (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/10/2004 2:58:19 PM

New method measures bone loss in astronauts - SteveS - 3/10/2004 1:46:40 PM

Mars conversation on a ski lift - jms - 3/10/2004 5:27:42 AM

Great site for fossil hunters - Buck Galaxy - 3/9/2004 5:00:04 AM
- Interesting territory, way out on that limb - Robert - 3/9/2004 6:49:00 PM
- Just another nonsense factory - Donald - 3/9/2004 2:59:53 PM
  - re: Just another nonsense factory - Buck Galaxy - 3/9/2004 4:22:58 PM
- The Author Is Hardly Skeptical - Mark Eby - 3/9/2004 2:37:14 PM
  - re: The Author Is Hardly Skeptical - dd - 3/10/2004 3:37:04 AM

Mars fossils and pseudofossils - LJ - 3/9/2004 6:09:29 PM
- Scooped you on this - see below (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 3/9/2004 7:43:22 PM
  - MSNBC article on the topic - LJ - 3/9/2004 9:15:00 PM
    - re: MSNBC article on the topic - Marcia - 3/9/2004 10:47:24 PM
  - That you did - I have to read more carefully! Sorry (n/t) - LJ - 3/9/2004 9:04:01 PM

Salyut 6 in 1979 (from Leaving Earth)-anecdotes - Raoul - 3/9/2004 9:26:28 PM

Suspected Beagle parts strewn across mars found - Justin Kelly - 3/9/2004 1:09:45 AM
- re: Suspected Beagle parts strewn across mars found - dtb - 3/9/2004 4:05:43 AM
  - It should have survived peaked heating - Gary - 3/9/2004 5:06:42 AM
    - re: It should have survived peaked heating - Doug - 3/9/2004 11:52:17 AM
      - re: It should have survived peaked heating - Gary - 3/9/2004 4:29:56 PM
- re: Suspected Beagle parts strewn across mars found - SteveS - 3/9/2004 2:22:01 AM

A lot of new raw images today - Tom Brosz - 3/8/2004 4:53:18 PM
- re: Spirit has a rocky road ahead. - Marcia - 3/8/2004 6:15:11 PM
- More "Donuts on Mars!" - Tom Brosz - 3/8/2004 5:13:04 PM
  - Done in the interests of 'science'? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/9/2004 4:12:30 PM
- BTW... - Tom Brosz - 3/8/2004 4:55:21 PM

Martian snow could protect life - Greg - 3/9/2004 10:43:36 AM
- mm and cm - nick Hoffman - 3/9/2004 3:29:57 PM
- re: Martian snow could protect life - Donald - 3/9/2004 3:22:41 PM

Hard rock on Mars? - Robert Clark - 3/8/2004 11:05:44 PM
- Grind motor stalled - Tom Brosz - 3/9/2004 5:58:02 AM
- gonna have to think 'bout this... - jms - 3/9/2004 3:32:08 AM
  - I was under the impression they just missed - Buck Galaxy - 3/9/2004 4:17:30 AM
    - yes, given likely relative hardness, must be a 'glitch'. (n/t) - jms - 3/9/2004 5:27:24 AM
- re: Hard rock on Mars? - Marcia - 3/8/2004 11:42:49 PM
  - re: Sorry, that first image... - Marcia - 3/8/2004 11:46:56 PM
    - image orientation - PB - 3/9/2004 2:55:55 PM
      - re: image orientation - Marcia - 3/9/2004 3:20:46 PM

Guess Who The Real Space Candidate Is - Mark Eby - 3/9/2004 2:13:19 PM

Spirit catches a shooting star - Robert - 3/8/2004 4:58:16 PM
- re: Spirit catches a shooting star - SteveS - 3/9/2004 2:15:31 AM
  - re: Spirit catches a shooting star - REB - 3/9/2004 1:34:02 PM

NASA '05 budget proposal includes $20 million in space PRIZES - ~tax leech - 2/3/2004 7:33:37 PM
- Here's the specific NASA language r/e its new COMPETITIVE PRIZES proposals - ~tax leech - 2/3/2004 10:12:00 PM
  - re: Love it !!! One problem.... - Success_Machine - 2/4/2004 2:08:49 AM
    - 42 USC 2457 says the invention's the government's, UNLESS... - ~tax leech - 2/6/2004 7:31:10 PM
      - re: NASA won't do anything for non-Americans - Success_Machine - 3/9/2004 10:37:17 AM
    - Why wouldn't such prizes' existence incentivize others' investing in you? - ~tax leech - 2/5/2004 1:45:33 AM

Today, Gagarin would have been 70 years old (n/t) - Raoul - 3/9/2004 6:33:35 AM

Quesiton: Are they posting temps and pressures at the MER sites? - ebnelson - 3/8/2004 5:11:08 AM
- The rovers don't have pressure or wind sensors. . - PB - 3/8/2004 12:52:45 PM
- Wind velocity too (?) - RobVG - 3/8/2004 8:27:43 AM
  - Mars weather - Fox - 3/8/2004 4:49:04 PM
    - Thanks a million!!! - ebnelson - 3/9/2004 4:19:12 AM

What if large comet or asteroid is racing towards a collision with Earth. Could you survive this cataclysm? - Aaron - 3/8/2004 4:52:08 PM
- re: Just let everyone know where you're sending that asteroid - Success_Machine - 3/9/2004 4:11:48 AM
- Yep. About as well as your basic dinosaur. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/9/2004 12:40:03 AM

Suspected Beagle parts strewn across mars found? - Justin Kelly - 3/9/2004 1:09:35 AM

A long duration flight in 1977-1978 - Raoul - 3/8/2004 7:49:15 PM

If radio waves can move objects in a vacuum, - Lee - 3/8/2004 3:41:38 AM
- The PS solar-sail is supposed to test the concept in orbit this spring. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/8/2004 4:54:15 PM
- re: If radio waves can move objects in a vacuum, - Dave M - 3/8/2004 2:32:21 PM
- re: If radio waves can move objects in a vacuum, - R.L. - 3/8/2004 7:03:49 AM
  - The article got me thinking about a photon rocket. - Lee - 3/8/2004 7:14:54 AM
    - re: The article got me thinking about a photon rocket. - Johannes - 3/8/2004 6:56:50 PM

M&M's Obsession Leads to Physics Discovery . . . - D. Spires - 3/8/2004 6:24:08 PM

decision on Hubble - Raoul - 3/8/2004 5:28:13 PM

The Mars bunny - LJ - 3/5/2004 6:54:02 PM
- re: The Mars bunny - Tom Brosz - 3/8/2004 4:36:02 PM
- Wascally Wabbit! - Elmer Fudd - 3/5/2004 9:21:23 PM
- Would it kill them just to roll over and take a closeup shot? - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2004 8:00:05 PM
  - I'm getting the idea, I believe. - Bowser - 3/6/2004 4:41:37 PM
    - Spacetime scales - Robert - 3/6/2004 6:10:55 PM
    - Conserving energy - Tom Brosz - 3/6/2004 5:17:06 PM
      - Nukes - Bowser - 3/6/2004 5:33:14 PM
        
        Vikings were plutonium powered, and they did okay. - Tom Brosz - 3/6/2004 6:44:43 PM
  - re: Would it kill them just to roll over and take a closeup shot? - Chris Vancil - 3/6/2004 5:39:57 AM
  - re: Would it kill them just to roll over and take a closeup shot? - Peersa - 3/6/2004 3:33:37 AM
  - re: No, but it could kill their careers...! - Marvi - 3/6/2004 12:16:52 AM

Dramatic discovery by Hubble? - CarolinaDave - 3/5/2004 4:00:55 PM
- re: Dramatic discovery by Hubble? - Jim Marsen - 3/8/2004 3:20:25 PM
- re: Dramatic discovery by Hubble? - AllenC - 3/6/2004 4:00:44 AM
  - Deep field?...So much for the suspicion of a jovian planet imaged. [sigh!] (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/6/2004 7:14:24 PM
    - re: Deep field!! - Raoul - 3/6/2004 8:22:00 PM
- Other sources? - CarolinaDave - 3/6/2004 2:19:14 AM
- An image of a "hot" jovian planet? - Jacob Samorodin - 3/5/2004 4:48:23 PM
  - hot Jupiters are closer - dtb - 3/5/2004 10:33:06 PM
  - Image or detection? - CarolinaDave - 3/5/2004 5:19:20 PM
    - The device is called a "Lyot Coronograph"; Sky & Telescope magazine; April / 2004. - Jacob Samorodin - 3/6/2004 7:12:00 PM
    - re: Image or detection? - Jacob Samorodin - 3/5/2004 5:34:05 PM
- re: Dramatic discovery by Hubble? - Delbert - 3/5/2004 4:28:20 PM
  - re: Dramatic discovery by Hubble? - Doug Ellison - 3/5/2004 4:43:45 PM
    - re: HST - Raoul Lannoy - 3/5/2004 5:11:25 PM
      - re: HST - Doug Ellison - 3/6/2004 12:14:48 AM
  - Forgive me I'm getting cynical in my old age. (n/t) - Delbert - 3/5/2004 4:34:49 PM
    - Hubble Deep Field already reported - Nigel - 3/7/2004 5:46:30 PM
      - re: Hubble Deep Field already reported - Raoul - 3/7/2004 8:05:27 PM

Meridiani sediments and lack of carbonates - dtb - 3/6/2004 8:57:49 PM
- evaporite sequences - jms - 3/8/2004 1:26:58 AM
- re: Meridiani sediments and lack of carbonates - Nick Hoffman - 3/6/2004 10:40:08 PM
  - Surface deposit - Gary - 3/7/2004 1:00:31 AM
    - re: Surface deposit - nick Hoffman - 3/8/2004 12:48:14 PM
  - Acids and carbonates? Sheesh, to think I got an "A" in chem. - dtb - 3/7/2004 12:10:28 AM

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