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Huge GOBS of new raw images! - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2004 6:36:28 AM
- Several more showing sundial and surface in same image. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 2/10/2004 1:01:28 PM
- From Spirit's raw image files - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2004 6:58:35 AM
- I guess THAT clears out those old memory chips... (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2004 6:38:26 AM

"Is There Living Green Algae in the Gusev Crater on Mars?" - Robert Clark - 2/9/2004 12:24:36 AM
- The evidence is not yet in. I don't see why not. I have predicted that microbial life will be found on Mars using the following reasoning: - David F Mayer - 2/9/2004 4:49:46 PM
  - re: The evidence is not yet in. I don't see why not. I have predicted that microbial life will be found on Mars using the following reasoning: - REB - 2/9/2004 5:17:27 PM
    - They coulld be transplanted Earth organisms carried on impact debris or improperly sterilized spacecraft. The debris route seems rather a long shot, but possible. I expect ENDOGENOUS life to be found… (n/t) - David F Mayer - 2/9/2004 5:22:45 PM
      - SUBJECT HEADINGS .. - Daniel - 2/10/2004 11:48:08 AM
      - SUBJECT HEADINGS .. - Daniel - 2/10/2004 11:47:58 AM
- simple answer - R.L. - 2/9/2004 2:58:13 AM
  - Read the article bud. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 2/9/2004 6:14:29 AM
    - I read it "bud", now tell me why it should impress me.. - R.L. - 2/9/2004 9:07:56 AM
      - Information in article.ld impress me.. - Robert Clark - 2/9/2004 3:06:03 PM
  - re: simple answer - Lindy - 2/9/2004 5:37:07 AM
    - no Lindy.... - R.L. - 2/9/2004 6:00:29 AM
- Linda Moulton Howe?!? - Donald - 2/9/2004 1:41:54 AM
  - There is more than one scientist interviewed. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 2/9/2004 6:16:58 AM

Lots more raw images in - Buck Galaxy - 2/10/2004 6:40:42 AM
- Scooped by Tom! (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 2/10/2004 6:41:51 AM
  - Hey, I gotta win one once in a while - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2004 6:49:54 AM

Opportunity's parachute and its shell - Raoul - 2/9/2004 7:57:24 PM
- Would be cool if they found the heatshield at some point (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2004 6:20:22 AM
- Good call by Nick! - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2004 6:17:21 AM
- That is a Cool Picture! - REB - 2/9/2004 8:56:44 PM
  - It is obviously (to nutcases, that is) an extraterrestrial spacecraft that NASA is trying to hide. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 2/9/2004 10:01:16 PM
    - re: My eyes are not as good as they used to be - Johannes - 2/10/2004 5:40:02 AM

Maximum Skyhook - Success_Machine - 2/10/2004 6:17:01 AM

Monday Morning Musing on Mars Marbles - Nick Hoffman - 2/8/2004 11:09:15 PM
- re: Monday Morning Musing on Mars Marbles - dtb - 2/9/2004 8:22:39 AM
  - This begs a question... - Jacob Samorodin - 2/9/2004 3:12:18 PM
  - re: CO2 Landslides - Nick Hoffman - 2/9/2004 11:26:10 AM
  - re: impact lapilli - dtb - 2/9/2004 8:37:41 AM
    - re: impact lapilli - Nick Hoffman - 2/9/2004 10:22:58 AM
    - re: Accretionary lapilli - Chris Vancil - 2/9/2004 8:56:54 AM
- re: Monday Morning Musing on Mars Marbles - Chris Vancil - 2/9/2004 8:08:27 AM
  - Alteration and more... - Nick Hoffman - 2/9/2004 8:28:24 AM
- re: Monday Morning Musing on Mars Marbles - REB - 2/9/2004 2:51:34 AM
  - excitedly baffled - Buck Galaxy - 2/9/2004 7:09:05 AM
    - re: excitedly baffled - REB - 2/9/2004 12:44:31 PM
- re: Monday Morning Musing on Mars Marbles - Robert Clark - 2/8/2004 11:46:59 PM
  - re: They seem to be embedded - BRFelix - 2/10/2004 12:00:25 AM

NASA's biggest challenge - Raoul - 2/9/2004 6:37:41 PM
- Newt: "dangle prizes and fans will root for competing teams" - ~tax leech - 2/9/2004 9:56:08 PM

The CEV - Raoul - 2/9/2004 9:26:16 PM

The things you find when you're back from a long trip in space - Raoul - 2/9/2004 8:43:38 PM

IC 1396 from the CFHT - Raoul - 2/9/2004 5:41:56 PM

gravity wave detectors - Daniel - 2/5/2004 9:56:30 PM
- Extremely violent events, such as a supernova, merger of two black holes, etc might create sufficiently strong gravity waves to be detected here by existing detectors. But even these events would nee… (n/t) - David F Mayer - 2/9/2004 5:05:10 PM
- re: gravity wave detectors - R.L. - 2/6/2004 4:53:04 AM
  - acknowledged - Daniel - 2/6/2004 5:54:45 AM
- Never bet against Einstein - alcaray - 2/6/2004 12:06:08 AM

RAT attack! - Tom Brosz - 2/9/2004 4:47:50 PM

Color image of light colored material near Opportunity lander. - Robert Clark - 2/6/2004 6:22:24 PM
- re: Color image of light colored material near Opportunity lander. - Nipper Wolf - 2/7/2004 3:19:26 AM
- Evaporites? - RobVG - 2/6/2004 7:22:43 PM
- Since when has gypsum and calcite been harder than anodized aluminium? - Tony - 2/6/2004 7:12:20 PM
  - Quartz? - Robert Clark - 2/9/2004 7:37:54 AM
    - :-) - Tony - 2/9/2004 11:33:51 AM
  - Then perhaps caliche, which is harder. - Robert Clark - 2/7/2004 3:07:56 AM
    - You know - Tony - 2/7/2004 5:40:42 AM
      - re: You know - et - 2/8/2004 4:53:44 PM
        
        Yes, but....... - Tony - 2/9/2004 3:05:19 PM
      - re: You know - Robert Clark - 2/7/2004 11:44:38 PM
      - re: You know - Nick Hoffman - 2/7/2004 3:59:54 PM
  - re: Harder? - Nick Hoffman - 2/7/2004 2:46:36 AM
    - Wheel Abrasion Experiment on Pathfinder. - Robert Clark - 2/7/2004 3:36:11 AM
      - Unless Martian gypsum / calcrete is a lot different than Earth's - Tony - 2/7/2004 5:50:38 AM
        
        re: Unless Martian gypsum / calcrete is a lot different than Earth's - Robert Clark - 2/7/2004 11:36:32 PM
- re: Color image of light colored material near Opportunity lander. - Marcia - 2/6/2004 7:10:28 PM
  - re: Ah... - Marcia - 2/6/2004 7:49:09 PM
  - re: ... from memory... they said it was a shade of Red. (n/t) - Marcia - 2/6/2004 7:13:56 PM

Microscopic images of the outcrop are in... - dtb - 2/8/2004 6:00:41 PM
- The embedded spheres seem to be a different color and texture than the outcrop rock material - Buck Galaxy - 2/9/2004 6:43:30 AM
- Could some percolating agent have eroded the channels/passages in the rock? - ebnelson - 2/8/2004 8:53:29 PM
  - Windblown sand and dust can do a lot of amazing things to a rock - Tom Brosz - 2/9/2004 1:06:22 AM
- Sure looks like those "pellets" are imbedded in that rock - Tom Brosz - 2/8/2004 7:16:51 PM
- First raw closeups of Spirits "ground out" area of Adirondack also in. - Tom Brosz - 2/8/2004 7:07:32 PM

Latest Opportunity raw images - Tom Brosz - 2/7/2004 5:43:38 AM
- re:Yet more new images (Sol 14) -- SPHERES! - dtb - 2/8/2004 1:27:52 AM
  - Those are Tribble droppings........... - Lindy - 2/9/2004 5:52:59 AM
  - Moqui Marbles? - Robert Clark - 2/8/2004 3:59:25 PM
  - Absolutely fascinating! - Buck Galaxy - 2/8/2004 3:00:08 AM
- Has images of sundial and surface through RGB filters. Anyone for a color composite? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 2/7/2004 11:11:05 PM
  - Doug Ellison's work... - Nick Hoffman - 2/8/2004 2:40:31 AM
    - More RGB images - an ambitious post !! - Nick Hoffman - 2/8/2004 8:04:23 AM
      - Thanks Nick! These pictures are extremely interesting (n/t) - Gary - 2/9/2004 2:38:11 AM
      - It looks as if the spheres are imbedded the sandd/powder - ebnelson - 2/8/2004 3:13:11 PM
    - some geological interpretations - Greg - 2/8/2004 7:33:57 AM
    - Image tag didn't work (n/t) (n/t) - dtb - 2/8/2004 3:32:00 AM
- Help - Tony - 2/7/2004 6:00:01 AM
  - pretty thin - dtb - 2/7/2004 3:40:27 PM
  - re: Help - Tom Brosz - 2/7/2004 6:15:22 AM
    - interesting - Buck Galaxy - 2/7/2004 6:24:35 AM
      - The earth analog for that one - ebnelson - 2/7/2004 6:42:16 AM
        
        Little spheres - Gary - 2/7/2004 11:19:27 PM
        
        re: Little spheres - Tom Brosz - 2/8/2004 5:34:16 AM
        
        re: Little spheres - Buck Galaxy - 2/8/2004 5:41:39 AM
        
        re: Little spheres - PB - 2/8/2004 4:08:40 PM
        
        I bet you're right! - Buck Galaxy - 2/8/2004 3:16:31 AM
        
        re: Can we use the word, Oolithic/Oolitic to describe the spheres? - Marcia - 2/8/2004 3:30:12 AM
        
        re: Actually, - Marcia - 2/8/2004 3:48:36 AM
        
        Pisolites. - Robert Clark - 2/8/2004 4:27:37 PM
        
        I hope so too - Buck Galaxy - 2/8/2004 5:54:20 AM
        
        re: Thanks! I hope we get an answer by the end of this week on both the soil/spheres and bedrock. :} (n/t) - Marcia - 2/8/2004 9:33:30 PM

Remember Robert's "Hoagland Alert"? - RobVG - 2/9/2004 3:02:13 AM
- I think he meant it as a joke... - Tom Brosz - 2/9/2004 3:18:20 AM
  - My bad. - RobVg - 2/9/2004 4:09:18 AM

Illusions of space - Raoul - 2/4/2004 8:23:02 PM
- Forget Transhab on the Moon - Buck Galaxy - 2/5/2004 4:55:51 AM
  - Easier idea: pressurized inflatables in lava tubes (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/5/2004 6:29:05 AM
    - re: Lava tubes - Raoul - 2/5/2004 9:55:06 PM
      - re: Lava tubes - Tom Brosz - 2/5/2004 11:44:26 PM
- Ever Heard Of Chemical Engineering? - Mark Eby - 2/4/2004 9:01:24 PM
  - re: Ever Heard Of Chemical Engineering? - Raoul - 2/4/2004 9:56:34 PM
    - re: Ever Heard Of Chemical Engineering? - Chris Vancil - 2/4/2004 10:45:39 PM
      - re: distances - Raoul - 2/5/2004 6:42:47 AM
        
        re: distances - Chris Vancil - 2/6/2004 10:15:01 AM
        
        re: distances - gbaikie - 2/9/2004 2:32:43 AM
        
        Spudis Is A Geologist, Zubrin Is An Engineer - Mark Eby - 2/8/2004 3:35:29 AM
        
        Ever Heard Of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)? - Mark Eby - 2/5/2004 2:22:32 PM
        
        Ever heard of overdosing on smugness? (n/t) - alcaray - 2/5/2004 5:13:42 PM
        
        I Didn't Coin The Phrase - Mark Eby - 2/5/2004 7:01:29 PM
        
        My sarcasm often is not explicit enough - alcaray - 2/5/2004 7:19:28 PM
        
        Oh, That's My Mode Of Sarcasm (n/t) - Mark Eby - 2/5/2004 7:54:10 PM
  - Isn't CH4 production on Mars, yesterday's news? - Gary - 2/4/2004 9:20:58 PM
    - No - Mark Eby - 2/4/2004 11:25:29 PM
      - Are there any commercial CH4 rockets? - A Crowl - 2/5/2004 10:12:04 PM
        
        I Don't Know, Gary Or Larry Might. (n/t) - Mark Eby - 2/6/2004 3:09:20 AM

Journalists and the Bush space plan - Raoul - 2/8/2004 7:33:51 PM
- Isn't Dwayne Day's article peculiarly pro-SHUTTLE and pro-ISS, though? - ~tax leech - 2/9/2004 2:00:15 AM

John Locker (UK) catches the ISS crossing the Sun (today) - Raoul - 2/8/2004 7:24:04 PM
- As usual, Raoul walks off with the Coolest Photo of the Day award... ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/9/2004 12:21:49 AM

A big spike - gbaikie - 2/6/2004 9:43:42 PM
- re: A big spike - gbaikie - 2/7/2004 11:01:24 PM
- re: A big spike - Nipper Wolf - 2/7/2004 3:11:18 AM
  - re: A big spike - gbaikie - 2/7/2004 4:18:24 AM
- re: A big spike - ELDER - 2/7/2004 1:31:54 AM
- The issue with tall towers is not compressive strength, it's buckling. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/7/2004 12:09:39 AM
  - The issue with tall towers on Earth is buckling. (n/t) - gbaikie - 2/7/2004 4:21:08 AM
    - re: The issue with tall towers everywhere that has gravity is buckling. - Tom Brosz - 2/7/2004 11:02:54 PM
      - Lunar space elevators - Tom Brosz - 2/8/2004 7:25:02 PM
        
        re: Lunar space elevators - Nick Hoffman - 2/8/2004 11:25:07 PM
      - re: The issue with tall towers everywhere that has gravity is buckling. - gbaikie - 2/8/2004 8:21:57 AM
        
        No, I don't like. - nick Hoffman - 2/8/2004 12:58:55 PM
        
        re: No, I don't like. - gbaikie - 2/8/2004 11:40:50 PM
        
        re: Now you're inventing errors I never made - Success_Machine - 2/8/2004 2:19:30 PM
    - re: buckling. - Success_Machine - 2/7/2004 2:25:27 PM
      - re: buckling. - gbaikie - 2/7/2004 10:13:46 PM
        
        Buckling and Engineering - nick Hoffman - 2/8/2004 2:36:59 AM
        
        re: Buckling and Engineering - gbaikie - 2/8/2004 5:18:15 AM

Two meteor strikes causing 3.8 event on Richter scale. - Nick - 2/8/2004 5:23:01 PM
- Cusco not a meteorite - Nick Hoffman - 2/8/2004 11:16:03 PM

Dropping the HST? More about politics and money than safety - Raoul - 2/7/2004 4:53:56 PM
- Why do some say only the SHUTTLE can save Hubble? - ~tax leech - 2/8/2004 5:51:13 PM
  - re: only the SHUTTLE can save Hubble - Raoul - 2/8/2004 6:28:19 PM
- Given a choice, which would you choose: Abandon HST, or delay the James Webb Space Telescope? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/7/2004 8:16:05 PM
  - Mothball The HST - Carl - 2/8/2004 12:31:31 AM
    - re: Waiting? - Raoul - 2/8/2004 9:54:41 AM
  - re:1 - Raoul - 2/7/2004 9:22:29 PM

Playing with colour in Opportunity Crater. - Warning - lots of images! - Nick Hoffman - 1/30/2004 12:11:26 PM
- re: Playing with colour in Opportunity Crater. - DavidV - 1/31/2004 6:07:58 AM
  - re: Playing with colour in Opportunity Crater. - Nick Hoffman - 1/31/2004 11:27:06 AM
- So can you infer anything about the rocks from the filtered photos? - ebnelson - 1/31/2004 4:08:34 AM
- Color--in the eye of the beholder. - Tom Brosz - 1/30/2004 8:42:28 PM
- "What color is Mars, anyway?" - Robert - 1/30/2004 6:44:28 PM
  - re: "What color is Mars, anyway?" - slinted - 2/8/2004 8:51:19 AM
  - re: "What color is Mars, anyway?" - Robert Clark - 2/1/2004 1:12:19 PM
    - re: "What color is Mars, anyway?" - Robert Clark - 2/1/2004 3:49:29 PM
    - re: "What color is Mars, anyway?" - nick Hoffman - 2/1/2004 2:11:20 PM
      - Daytime, Summer temperatures and pressures are within the range to permit liquid water at both MER sites. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 2/1/2004 2:40:44 PM
  - Blur - not the rock band... - Nick Hoffman - 1/30/2004 11:16:02 PM
    - re: Blur - not the rock band... - Johannes - 2/2/2004 1:01:41 AM
    - re: bluish pebbles, red slabs, wow! - dtb - 1/31/2004 3:19:41 AM
      - Wow Indeed ! - Nick Hoffman - 1/31/2004 6:15:02 AM
    - Interesting color choice for image 3 - SteveS - 1/30/2004 11:58:05 PM
    - re: Doug Ellison - DavidV - 1/30/2004 11:49:00 PM
      - re: Doug Ellison and the "other" group - Nick Hoffman - 1/31/2004 12:34:10 AM
  - re: "What color is Mars, anyway?" - dlp_79 - 1/30/2004 7:13:36 PM
    - re: "What color is Mars, anyway?" - Robert - 1/30/2004 9:06:02 PM
      - Actually, Robert... - Nick Hoffman - 1/31/2004 5:11:53 PM
        
        re: Actually, Robert... - Robert - 1/31/2004 5:40:42 PM
        
        Absolutely. This is not my "day job", and I'm just playing! (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 2/1/2004 2:13:41 AM
      - re: "What color is Mars, anyway?" - BRFelix - 1/31/2004 1:01:53 PM
        
        re: "What color is Mars, anyway?" - Robert - 1/31/2004 6:26:21 PM
        
        re: "What color is Mars, anyway?" - Nick Hoffman - 2/1/2004 2:41:47 AM
        
        re: "What color is Mars, anyway?" - et - 2/1/2004 12:46:33 AM
        
        re: Try an exercise - BRFelix - 2/1/2004 3:14:42 PM
        
        Color is relative - S - 1/31/2004 7:10:57 PM
        
        "Blue skies, smilin' at me...Nothin' but blue skies from now on!" - Robert - 1/31/2004 8:13:07 PM
        
        re:why is a desert dustier than a swamp? - dtb - 2/1/2004 2:44:06 PM
- Nasa accused of painting Mars red - TiM - 1/30/2004 3:41:59 PM
- Errata! - Nick Hoffman - 1/30/2004 3:36:46 PM
  - re: Errata! - Marcia - 1/30/2004 5:28:26 PM

Re: the Rovers. The ones with wheels. - Tom Brosz - 2/5/2004 6:28:01 AM
- Compare It To What Humans Would Have Done In The Same Time Period - Mark Eby - 2/5/2004 2:32:56 PM
  - Devil's Advocate - Nick Hoffman - 2/5/2004 4:40:33 PM
    - A Human Wouldn't Mistake A Landing Gear Bounce For A Real Landing - Mark Eby - 2/5/2004 7:05:12 PM
      - neither would a robot if you gave it the means to detect the difference (n/t) - alcaray - 2/6/2004 12:09:35 AM
        
        No Kidding - Mark Eby - 2/6/2004 3:03:54 AM
        
        I agree with you to a point - alcaray - 2/6/2004 5:12:47 PM
        
        Your Solution Is Part Of The Problem - Mark Eby - 2/6/2004 9:06:45 PM
        
        What?! - DALeffler - 2/7/2004 6:19:59 AM
        
        Of Course - Mark Eby - 2/8/2004 4:39:56 AM
    - Sure, but... - McFly - 2/5/2004 6:36:29 PM
  - re: Compare It To What Humans Would Have Done In The Same Time Period - dlp_79 - 2/5/2004 2:56:05 PM
- re: Re: the Rovers. The ones with wheels. - phil "We're Baaack!" - 2/5/2004 2:00:08 PM
  - re: Patience - dlp_79 - 2/5/2004 2:22:13 PM
    - I guess it's true what they say about impatient redheads (n/t) - phil the impatient - 2/5/2004 5:39:51 PM
    - A Whole of a hole? (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 2/5/2004 4:44:26 PM
      - re: small typo (n/t) - dlp_79 - 2/5/2004 4:51:41 PM
- re: Re: One of those wheels... - SteveS - 2/5/2004 1:55:58 PM

A question about Mars sample return mission - McFly - 2/4/2004 5:48:50 PM
- Zubrin's Paper On The Issue - Mark Eby - 2/8/2004 3:40:06 AM
- re: ESA Aurora Program - SteveS - 2/4/2004 8:57:06 PM
- MSR is currently flat on its back and holding a lilly - Gary - 2/4/2004 6:26:23 PM

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