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Reentry parts

Tom Brosz — 1/11/2004 4:25:40 AM (archived)

Nobody has ever quite clarified which direction the lander came down from. There was a significant horizontal motion that I think was compensated for by thrusters. NASA people have pointed out marks that could have been from the bouncing airbags, which seems to indicate that the lander came in from the direction the cameras are currently pointing, but I'm not sure.

Certainly the rover people would know how things happened accurately enough to where they should be able to point to a small quadrant on the pictures and say that the parachutes and stuff should be somewhere around there. If the lander indeed bounced for almost a kilometer, odds are good that the ejected hardware is out of sight, and might only be seen later if the rover heads that way.

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Hoagland finds machinery in Gusev Crater!!!!!!!!!! - Donald - 1/10/2004 4:19:08 PM
- re: Hoagland finds machinery in Gusev Crater!!!!!!!!!! - Anomaly Bill :-) - 1/12/2004 7:25:00 PM
- re: Hoagland finds machinery in Gusev Crater!!!!!!!!!! - Starjim - 1/12/2004 3:05:23 PM
  - re: Hoagland finds machinery in Gusev Crater!!!!!!!!!! - Hans - 1/12/2004 6:44:04 PM
    - re: Hoagland finds machinery in Gusev Crater!!!!!!!!!! - Crow Nose - 1/12/2004 10:21:17 PM
      - Hi Chrome-ass! :-) - Anomaly Bill :-) - 1/12/2004 10:59:34 PM
        
        re: Hi Chrome-ass! :-) - Crow Nose - 1/13/2004 12:09:15 AM
        
        Hi Again Chrome-ass! :-) - Anomaly Bill :-) - 1/13/2004 2:35:32 AM
        
        re: Hi Again Chrome-ass! :-) - Crow Nose - 1/13/2004 6:47:55 AM
        
        Goodbye Chrome-ass! :-) - Anomaly Bill :-) - 1/13/2004 7:14:04 AM
        
        Geez, get a room, guys. (n/t) - alcaray - 1/14/2004 9:38:41 PM
- re: It seems to me that there are two types - Johannes - 1/12/2004 4:05:54 AM
  - Please list one person who posts here who believes humans are the only - ebnelson - 1/12/2004 2:10:32 PM
    - phil (n/t) - phil - 1/14/2004 5:04:14 PM
      - re: phil = I thought so. :) (n/t) - Marcia - 1/14/2004 11:48:05 PM
    - re: Please list one person who posts here who believes humans are the only - Johannes - 1/13/2004 12:08:03 AM
- While you're looking for bits of junk on the Martian surface - Gary - 1/11/2004 3:56:41 AM
  - keep an eye out for something like this - Greg - 1/11/2004 4:59:47 AM
  - P.S. the cruise ring fragments, if any, would probably be many miles away. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/11/2004 4:26:48 AM
  - Reentry parts - Tom Brosz - 1/11/2004 4:25:40 AM
    - Mars Pathfinder saw its own heatshield off in the distance (n/t) - Gary - 1/11/2004 6:09:27 AM
      - re: White dot - Raoul - 1/11/2004 4:00:25 PM
      - You have a link to the pic? (n/t) - R.L. - 1/11/2004 7:16:41 AM
- More pictures of "machinery"! - David F Mayer - 1/11/2004 2:55:05 AM
  - Hey David. There is a Gray's head in the top right corner! (n/t) - Tony - 1/15/2004 6:39:30 PM
- everyone must surely know .. - Daniel - 1/11/2004 1:57:23 AM
- Besides, I was the first one to find the Dead Fish and Tire Tracks! - Tom Brosz - 1/10/2004 7:52:03 PM
  - re: Besides, I was the first one to find the Dead Fish and Tire Tracks! - Marcia - 1/12/2004 3:48:21 PM
- re: Hoagland finds brain! Film at 11:00! - Tom Brosz - 1/10/2004 7:44:40 PM
  - And hey, how many deserts on Earth have machinery scattered that thickly over the surface? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/10/2004 7:53:24 PM
- re: Hoagland finds machinery in Gusev Crater!!!!!!!!!! - Woodlock - 1/10/2004 7:41:38 PM
  - Real artifact on mars... - R.L. - 1/11/2004 4:58:53 AM
  - re: Hoagland finds machinery in Gusev Crater!!!!!!!!!! - R.L. - 1/11/2004 4:50:55 AM
    - Sorry, R.L., but you are dealing with a "True Believer". No amount of evidence combined with rational analysis could convince him of the truth. You are wasting your time. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/11/2004 6:12:58 AM
  - That's too easy - Smarty pants - 1/10/2004 11:02:43 PM
    - You don't see it. - Woodlock - 1/11/2004 12:46:07 AM
      - Good grief Jim - Donald - 1/11/2004 2:05:28 AM
        
        We all have our personal opinions. - Woodlock - 1/11/2004 3:04:59 AM
        
        Have you ever heard of "Desert Varnish" which coats rocks in some deserts? In addition to wind polishing, this stuff adds a metallic sheen. It is found in many desert environments. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/11/2004 6:07:51 AM
        
        anomalyhun ters.com- circle jerk of the insane - R.L. - 1/11/2004 3:23:44 AM
- OH NO!!! Spirit must have smashed something when it landed! (lol) (n/t) - Davin L. - 1/10/2004 6:34:03 PM
- Missed one - Robert - 1/10/2004 6:24:30 PM
  - re: Missed one - Tom Brosz - 1/10/2004 7:46:07 PM
    - Exactly: it's The Little People (n/t) - Robert - 1/10/2004 8:05:34 PM
  - re: Missed one beer can - Johannes - 1/10/2004 6:58:21 PM
- A man has gotta eat.... - Gary - 1/10/2004 5:51:45 PM
- Does NASA hide UFO-related evidence in order to seem less like an underachiever in the eyes of U.S. taxpayers? - SpaceProjects.com - 1/10/2004 4:54:44 PM
  - It's like the Blind Cardinal Disease......... - Lindy - 1/13/2004 5:21:15 AM
    - "They will be proven WRONG very, very soon" - phil - 1/14/2004 5:06:50 PM
  - You are a lunatic spammer (n/t) - R.L. - 1/11/2004 5:09:18 AM
  - re: Does NASA hide UFO-related evidence in order to seem less like an underachiever in the eyes of U.S. taxpayers? - Nick - 1/10/2004 11:19:12 PM
  - You're a total nutcase... (n/t) - SpaceProjects.tk - 1/10/2004 5:54:01 PM
  - Don't be ridiculous - Donald - 1/10/2004 5:35:01 PM

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