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Opportunity landed successfully and NASA seems to have fixed or on their way to fixing the problem with Rover.
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01-25-2004, 11:31 AM | #182 | |
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WELCOME TO MERIDIANI PLANUM! Make yourself at home.
This is great news. I tell you those guys at NASA must be aging years in just a few weeks. Talk about a rollercoaster ride. The stress must be out of hand. But lets hope Opportunity's time on Mars goes without a hitch. Ack! I better shut up I might jinx it.
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We've discovered water
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*scratches head*
Funny, I was so sure we already knew that...
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Years ago I thought I heard about other indications of water on Mars... changes in color at different lattitudes based on the 'season' of the Martian year. Or was that just optical illusion? Smoke & mirrors?
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The only known water on mars is on the caps. But frozen water isnt good enough. You need evidence of true bodies of sustained water. And they never had verifiable proof before. They only had observations from orbiting satellites showing what appeared to be possible dried river beds or water flow patterns from millions of years ago. And the Viking landers set down in places that werent on one of these areas. And they found the soil to be sterile. But NOW we have verifiable PROOF of chemical reactions involving minerals that can only happen under the presence of H2O. Thats massive. That then opens up the next Viking mission planned for 2007 that will land another vehicle capable of truly analyzing the martian soil for organic compounds. The original Viking landers couldnt actually do that (even though they gave use the "sterile soil" reading) and the two rovers arent equipped with this kind of thing so thats our next step.
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Hey all you Hubble people. Possible good news:
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*happy sigh*
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07-01-2004, 10:47 PM | #189 |
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Well for any interested, Cassini is finally in orbit around Saturn. Prepare yourselves for some seriously enlightening data over the next few years including photos of things weve never seen before. NASA's web site has the latest images if yer interested.
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pretty cool stuff...
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the genesis capsule that left two years and one month ago to collect solar winds form the sun was supposed to re enter earths atmosphere today where its parachute was supposed to deploy and be picked up by one of two waiting helecopters. unfortunetly when genesis was going through reentry something went very wrong and genesis's parachute never deployed. it crashed into the dessert injuring no one at a speed of over 100 m/h. scientists are hopeful that enough solar wind samples will be left in the collector tiles for scientists and astronomers to study. the data collected could help to answer such questoins as how the hell did the earth form out of clouds of stellatr dust? and other big questions...
this might be the wrong thread to post this, but w/e. oh ya and i think im back for a little while. the format changed.
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Genesis capsule, you say? So that was what I saw a part of on CNN, I couldn't place it. It's a bloody pity it crashed but considering the speed it crashed with, it sure is sturdier than I thought.
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I'm surprised no one mentioned this news. The European space probe Huygens has split of NASA's Cassini spacecraft earlier this month and is today entering the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan to land! *is excited*
Not to mention the gorgeous photos Cassini and Huygens have taken and sent beack during their yearslong trip. Stardate Sciences hope rides on Huygens
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Indeed it is exciting stuff. Glad to see someone else out there actually gives a half a crap about this. It should just be a matter of days before some long standing mysteries are perhaps solved:
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Hey, I care. I just saw the rings of Saturn with my own eyes for the first time a couple of weeks ago through my girlfriend's telescope. This picture of Titan's surface is extremely cool.
On a side note, the "No Duh" quote of the day award goes to Carolyn Porco of the Cassini Imaging Center. "There are river channels. There are channels cut by something ... a fluid of some sort is my best guess." I found that quote amusing.
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It was very exciting to see the first picture of Titan's surface taken by Huygens within the moon's atmosphere. Seven years of anticipation, finally rewarded.
I liked the way how one scientist sketched a possibly landscape Huygens would find: "A green clouded sky with a surface of stone-hard frozen water with rivers of lighter fluid." Very alien imaging. It'd be interesting to see if that is what Huygens (and Cassini who will be transmitting the data) will find down there. If they both continue to work in perfect order, Titan may prove a just opened treasure box.
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Exciting stuff!!! Amazing pictures... can't wait for the processed ones!!!! [/fan-girl]
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Ever since I read about the Cassini mission years ago, I've been very interested in the moon Titan. I've been following this news closely and am really excited
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The Cassini Huygens mission has been a stunning success, well done NASA and ESA!
If you're interested, the official site is at http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html There's a press conference this afternoon where they're planning to reveal some more findings.
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