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Did no one post the Mars Express' Valles Marineris picture? - Justin Kelly - 1/23/2004 2:06:06 PM
- If a rover could be dropped in the top left corner area it looks like there would be easy access to drive down into the canyon - Buck Galaxy - 1/23/2004 5:59:45 PM
  - re: Also from Mars Express - Raoul - 1/23/2004 6:23:22 PM
    - Wow! Stunning photos! - Buck Galaxy - 1/23/2004 10:20:21 PM
      - re: Wow! Stunning photos! - Raoul - 1/23/2004 11:36:13 PM

Venus close to the Moon - Raoul - 1/23/2004 11:34:06 PM

Europeans Find Evidence of Water on Mars - SteveS - 1/23/2004 1:16:59 PM
- I was under the impression that water at the poles was very old news - Tom Brosz - 1/23/2004 7:11:04 PM
  - re: poles - Raoul - 1/23/2004 7:50:26 PM
    - Mariner-7 detected water vapor above the south pole icecap of Mars: August, 1969. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/23/2004 8:54:23 PM
  - As was I and along with 'evidence' of water flow - SteveS - 1/23/2004 7:42:38 PM
- MSNBC: European orbiter detects water on Mars - SteveS - 1/23/2004 2:32:48 PM
  - re: MSNBC: European orbiter detects water on Mars - Raoul - 1/23/2004 5:31:45 PM
    - Craters in the channel floor - SteveS - 1/23/2004 6:58:24 PM
    - Awesome pic of Hellas Basin! - Buck Galaxy - 1/23/2004 6:06:58 PM
      - Dig that blue, man! (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/23/2004 11:09:44 PM

A documentary-fiction - Raoul - 1/23/2004 10:04:27 PM

The Mars Rover Spirit downlinked data has AT LAST been deciphered! (( :-o) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/23/2004 8:50:49 PM

Why hasn't this experiment been done long ago? - ebnelson - 1/23/2004 2:26:56 AM
- Coriolis force is a problem - Gary - 1/23/2004 4:53:58 PM
  - It Has Already Been Tested - Mark Eby - 1/23/2004 8:07:04 PM
  - Coriolis "force" - alcaray - 1/23/2004 5:09:34 PM
    - Why go to the trouble? - Tom Brosz - 1/23/2004 7:05:18 PM
      - Anything that spins will show the effect - alcaray - 1/23/2004 8:13:41 PM
        
        re: Anything that spins will show the effect - Tom Brosz - 1/23/2004 8:50:08 PM
- re: This is AKA Tranlife and Zubrin suggested it orginally. - Chris Vancil - 1/23/2004 8:35:16 AM
- re: Why hasn't this experiment been done long ago? - Tom Brosz - 1/23/2004 5:11:41 AM
  - Some numbers - R.L. - 1/23/2004 5:52:37 AM
    - R.L. flames himself.... - R.L. - 1/23/2004 6:10:41 AM
      - Still, 29 cm... - R.L. - 1/23/2004 6:14:52 AM

Manned Mars on Time Magazine cover - Justin Kelly - 1/23/2004 3:28:35 PM
- Good "Opinions on Space Plan" links page - Buck Galaxy - 1/23/2004 5:48:13 PM
  - Space mining - SteveS - 1/23/2004 7:28:22 PM
  - Link - Buck Galaxy - 1/23/2004 5:52:31 PM
- re: Manned Mars on Time Magazine cover - Delbert - 1/23/2004 4:54:27 PM
  - re: Manned Mars on Time Magazine cover - McFly - 1/23/2004 5:39:53 PM
  - there were a lot of inaccuracies in that article - Buck Galaxy - 1/23/2004 5:35:04 PM
- correction - Justin Kelly - 1/23/2004 3:43:52 PM

NASA Gets New Signals From Mars Rover - Don - 1/23/2004 3:11:02 PM
- Things are looking better - SteveS - 1/23/2004 5:25:47 PM
  - The bad news: It looks like it is hardware related... - Scott Evil - 1/23/2004 7:08:54 PM
  - I thought Spirit came with an "on-site service" warranty :-) (n/t) - McFly - 1/23/2004 5:43:32 PM

Besides the DSN , any other Terrestrial Antennas..... - carl - 1/22/2004 10:13:13 PM
- Unlikely - Larry J - 1/23/2004 2:58:27 AM
  - re: Unlikely - Chris Vancil - 1/23/2004 8:47:45 AM
    - You also need the ability to transmit, at all - alcaray - 1/23/2004 5:13:01 PM

Latest news on Spirit - dlp_79 - 1/23/2004 12:32:46 AM
- C'mon et - Tony - 1/23/2004 1:48:46 PM
- Corrupted packets - Justin Kelly - 1/23/2004 4:10:03 AM
  - MER Software - Gary - 1/23/2004 6:26:21 AM
- If it is a comm failure, there are safeguards built in that will recover the system - ebnelson - 1/23/2004 12:43:10 AM
  - Crtl + Alt + Del (n/t) - Justin Kelly - 1/23/2004 4:00:17 AM
    - re: Crtl + Alt + Del - Nick Hoffman - 1/23/2004 7:52:28 AM
      - If they only would have designed another robot for that task... - Scott Evil - 1/23/2004 2:57:18 PM

My spirit theory - dlp_79 - 1/23/2004 3:16:09 AM
- It depends on how they engineered their safe mode - Larry J - 1/23/2004 2:39:11 PM
- My guesses are a static discharge or a memory leak (n/t) - Gary - 1/23/2004 6:27:33 AM

ice deposits under Gusev - Greg - 1/22/2004 2:36:26 PM
- re: Hydrogen? You are referring to water ice I presume. - Success_Machine - 1/22/2004 5:51:26 PM
  - re: Hydrogen? You are referring to water ice I presume. - Greg - 1/23/2004 1:40:00 AM
    - re: Temperatures everywhere on Mars are below the freezing point of water - Success_Machine - 1/23/2004 4:32:43 AM
      - Your data contradicts your contention. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/23/2004 2:33:34 PM
      - Melting and boiling points - Nick Hoffman - 1/23/2004 8:32:03 AM
      - re: Temperatures everywhere on Mars are below the freezing point of water - Nick Hoffman - 1/23/2004 8:28:52 AM
        
        re: Temperatures everywhere on Mars are below the freezing point of water - Greg - 1/23/2004 10:11:54 AM
      - re: Temperatures everywhere on Mars are below the freezing point of water - Greg - 1/23/2004 4:56:08 AM
        
        re: Temperatures everywhere on Mars are below the freezing point of water - Chris Vancil - 1/23/2004 10:10:25 AM
        
        re: Temperatures everywhere on Mars are below the freezing point of water - Greg - 1/23/2004 10:34:24 AM
  - re: Sinkholes, or an easily compressed topsoil might form - Success_Machine - 1/22/2004 6:03:29 PM
    - Please, Lord!...May Success_Machine be wrong about this one! - Jacob Samorodin - 1/22/2004 7:05:15 PM
- Not qualified to address your theory - alcaray - 1/22/2004 3:39:34 PM

Damn it! Lost communication with Spirit (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 1/22/2004 5:34:42 PM
- Careful about the wording... - Tom Brosz - 1/22/2004 7:25:29 PM
- Last photo downloaded... ;) - Tom Brosz - 1/22/2004 6:54:58 PM
  - We can begin a junk yard here. (n/t) - Nick - 1/23/2004 5:14:40 AM
  - Ha ha ha ha!...Good one, Tom. And it's name is Bruce. ;-)> (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/22/2004 7:07:49 PM
    - but, but, but..... - Tony - 1/22/2004 8:08:46 PM
      - re: but, but, but..... - Tom Brosz - 1/22/2004 8:10:20 PM
        
        Hmm. Are we sufficiently off-topic yet? :-D - Tony - 1/22/2004 8:51:25 PM
        
        re: Hmm. Are we sufficiently off-topic yet? :-D - Tom Brosz - 1/22/2004 9:44:27 PM
        
        re: Hmm. Are we sufficiently off-topic yet? :-D - SDG - 1/23/2004 1:09:57 AM
        
        Close, but maybe no cigar - Tony - 1/23/2004 1:52:05 PM
- Some good news. - dlp_79 - 1/22/2004 5:47:25 PM
  - Martian computer virus - Buck Galaxy - 1/22/2004 6:21:53 PM
    - Would an extremely energetic 'cosmic-ray' particle scramble the software? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/22/2004 6:51:55 PM
      - Single Event Upsets (SEUs) - Larry J - 1/22/2004 9:00:23 PM
        
        I knew there's redundancy.... - Jacob Samorodin - 1/22/2004 9:54:35 PM
        
        Most of the hardware is controlled by software... - Larry J - 1/23/2004 2:44:15 AM
  - leads to a question... - McFly - 1/22/2004 6:14:42 PM
  - re: Some good news. - dlp_79 - 1/22/2004 5:50:35 PM
- re: It is indeed serious (n/t) - Raoul - 1/22/2004 5:37:52 PM
  - failure or setback, watch the conspiracy theorists come out of the woodwork. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/22/2004 6:54:01 PM

Cause of Spirit rover 'anomaly' found! - R.L. - 1/23/2004 1:41:15 AM
- Maybe it sunk into the mud. - Lee - 1/23/2004 6:40:32 AM
- lolololololol - ebnelson - 1/23/2004 2:11:58 AM
  - Photoshop is fun:) - R.L. - 1/23/2004 5:58:45 AM

Asteroid - Raoul - 1/22/2004 10:14:21 PM
- re: Asteroid - SteveS - 1/23/2004 4:18:54 AM

Any links on MER recovery protocols or schedules? - ebnelson - 1/23/2004 2:13:59 AM

Jay Manifold's plan to get to Mars - Buck Galaxy - 1/22/2004 9:42:58 PM
- re: A goal - Raoul - 1/22/2004 10:24:24 PM
  - re: A goal - phil - 1/22/2004 11:22:39 PM

New Space Exploration Vision" Distributed to NASA Employees 16 Jan 2004 - Buck Galaxy - 1/22/2004 6:28:17 PM
- re: New Space Exploration Vision" Distributed to NASA Employees 16 Jan 2004 - dtb - 1/22/2004 10:32:56 PM
- re: New Space Exploration Vision" Distributed to NASA Employees 16 Jan 2004 - Raoul - 1/22/2004 7:02:44 PM
  - re: No more large crews for ISS - Raoul - 1/22/2004 7:27:20 PM
    - re: No more large crews for ISS - Tom Brosz - 1/22/2004 8:18:31 PM
      - re: No more large crews for ISS - Raoul - 1/22/2004 9:04:29 PM
        
        re: No more large crews for ISS - Tom Brosz - 1/22/2004 9:37:55 PM
        
        re: No more large crews for ISS - Raoul - 1/22/2004 9:58:51 PM

Olivine - Raoul - 1/21/2004 6:41:22 AM
- Perhaps the Olivine was deposited recently in Mars history. - REB - 1/22/2004 6:13:42 PM
- Sic Transit Gloria Paradigms - phil - 1/21/2004 4:41:59 PM
  - "Warm and wet" was dead before they got to Gusev - Gary - 1/21/2004 4:52:52 PM
    - Get ready for more surprises when they look underground.re: "Warm and wet" was dead before they got to Gusev (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/21/2004 5:21:50 PM
      - Ok Bob, how about a reality check? - et - 1/21/2004 8:28:26 PM
        
        re: Ok Bob, how about a reality check? - Robert Clark - 1/22/2004 2:16:16 PM
        
        re: Ok Bob, how about a reality check? - Johannes - 1/22/2004 3:42:55 AM
        
        Allow me - Tony - 1/22/2004 4:38:22 PM
        
        re: Hematite - Marcia - 1/22/2004 7:34:11 PM
        
        They should really teach kids today the 4 Rs rather than 3 - Tony - 1/22/2004 8:16:02 PM
      - I expect Lindy's UFOs to land first (n/t) - phil - 1/21/2004 6:26:36 PM

Supporting another HST mission - Raoul - 1/22/2004 7:48:56 PM

Water vs CO2 transported sediments -- how to distinguish? (Nick...) - dtb - 1/22/2004 5:51:10 AM
- re: Water vs CO2 transported sediments -- how to distinguish? (Nick...) - Nick Hoffman - 1/22/2004 4:47:40 PM
  - re: Water vs CO2 transported sediments -- how to distinguish? (Nick...) - dtb - 1/22/2004 6:03:48 PM

Absolutely zero mention of the new space initiative in State of the Union address - Tom Brosz - 1/21/2004 3:40:44 AM
- SpacePolitics.com: presidential candidates' views on space... (NO AFFILIATION with me) - ~tax leech - 1/21/2004 11:14:45 PM
- re: Prepare to wait at least four months. - Success_Machine - 1/21/2004 10:21:23 AM
  - re: Bush still has to appoint up to 14 more members to Aldridge's committee - Success_Machine - 1/21/2004 10:54:45 AM
    - re: I find it amazing that I can follow American politics - Success_Machine - 1/22/2004 12:58:18 AM
- re: Absolutely zero mention of the new space initiative in State of the Union address - Buck Galaxy - 1/21/2004 7:23:06 AM
- The space 'initiative' - R.L. - 1/21/2004 5:03:39 AM
  - re: The space 'initiative' - Delbert - 1/22/2004 4:58:37 PM
  - re: The space 'initiative' - Raoul - 1/21/2004 7:32:55 PM
    - re: CEV together with a HLLV - Success_Machine - 1/21/2004 8:47:14 PM
      - re: CEV together with a HLLV - Larry J - 1/22/2004 1:51:25 AM
      - Would the vehicle you describe still fit inside the Vehicle Assembly Building? - Scott Evil - 1/21/2004 11:07:13 PM
        
        re: I have no idea - Success_Machine - 1/22/2004 12:43:07 AM
  - agree that space is a no win issue in an election year - phil - 1/21/2004 4:09:27 PM
- re: Absolutely zero mention of the new space initiative in State of the Union address - Vince - 1/21/2004 4:41:57 AM
- My take on that - FrankC - 1/21/2004 4:30:31 AM
  - We're probably screwed but Frank may also be right.... - Gary - 1/21/2004 5:29:15 AM
    - re: We're probably screwed but Frank may also be right.... - McFly - 1/21/2004 3:35:03 PM
      - Prometheus - Gary - 1/21/2004 4:23:58 PM
        
        re: Prometheus - Buck Galaxy - 1/21/2004 9:34:45 PM
      - re: Bush made a few decisions for NASA officials who were likely hobbled by contrarian debates - Success_Machine - 1/21/2004 4:03:26 PM
        
        There's a totally cynical slant to this... - Gary - 1/21/2004 4:32:40 PM
        
        You assume too much - Scott Evil - 1/21/2004 8:21:29 PM
        
        re: Uh huh.. - Success_Machine - 1/21/2004 4:43:33 PM
    - Still...it would be nice to get a few modules and and astronauts on lunar dust by the 60th anniversary of NASA. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/21/2004 3:04:46 PM

The MER-A, APX5 x-ray surface-composition results are in and...WOW!!! - Jacob Samorodin - 1/20/2004 8:34:55 PM
- And, its not mud - Donald - 1/21/2004 3:40:39 AM
  - re: And, its not mud - Robert Clark - 1/21/2004 4:21:32 AM
    - Give it up Robert - Donald - 1/21/2004 4:49:02 AM
      - It ain't over till the fat lady sings. - Robert Clark - 1/21/2004 4:28:31 PM
        
        "La Laa Laaaaa LaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaH !!" - Nick Hoffman - 1/22/2004 5:01:53 AM
        
        It means the most RELEVANT data hasn't been determined yet. Remember the water is subsurface according to GRS. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/22/2004 9:04:27 AM
        
        Nick is waiting for you over at the Flame board (n/t) - Gary - 1/21/2004 4:39:24 PM
        
        re: Nick is waiting for you over at the FlSorry bud. I don't engage in flame wars.ame board (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/21/2004 5:15:08 PM
        
        re: Sorry bud. I don't engage in flame wars. - Nick Hoffman - 1/22/2004 1:31:49 AM
- Is this of soil? Or that Adirondack rock? - alcaray - 1/21/2004 12:41:07 AM
  - Soil. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/21/2004 2:58:47 PM
- Sodium? oh you mean this image..... - et - 1/20/2004 9:12:43 PM
  - RTGs? - Dave M - 1/20/2004 9:53:52 PM
    - Not RTGs - Larry J - 1/20/2004 10:06:51 PM
      - Thanks for the clarification. (n/t) - et - 1/20/2004 10:48:05 PM
- They also found olivine - Tom Brosz - 1/20/2004 8:49:27 PM
  - Aand check out that alien skull at the bottom corner of your 1st link. - Scott Evil - 1/20/2004 10:37:37 PM
  - Yea!...And that creates a puzzle. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/20/2004 9:03:36 PM
    - re: Yea!...And that creates a puzzle. - et - 1/20/2004 9:26:30 PM
      - re: Yea!...And that creates a puzzle. - Nick Hoffman - 1/21/2004 12:48:37 AM
- re: The MER-A, APX5 x-ray surface-composition results are in and...WOW!!! - Raoul - 1/20/2004 8:47:39 PM
  - re: The MER-A, APX5 x-ray surface-composition results are in and...WOW!!! - Johannes - 1/22/2004 1:32:57 AM

Interesting Article - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/22/2004 6:29:00 AM

No communication from Spirit today - dlp_79 - 1/22/2004 2:37:10 AM
- re: No communication from Spirit today - Larry J - 1/22/2004 3:19:00 AM
  - re: No communication from Spirit today - dlp_79 - 1/22/2004 3:22:31 AM

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