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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The First Color Panorama from Mars by Curiosity
NASA ^
| August 11, 2012
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 08/11/2012 2:09:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: You've just landed on Mars and opened your eyes -- what do you see? If you're the Curiosity rover, you see a strange gravelly place with a large mountain in the distance. You've landed on target near the edge of 150-km wide Gale Crater, with Mount Sharp on the horizon being the rise in the crater's center. As a car-sized rover with six wheels and a laser, you prepare yourself to go on a two-year mission of exploration, climbing Mt. Sharp, and looking for signs that Mars once harbored life. Currently you sit motionless, check yourself over, and receive a detailed briefing from Earth on things you will need to know while rolling around, trying to avoid flipping over or getting your wheels stuck in sand. Your rolling explorations will likely start in a few days. What will you find? What's out there?
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; curiosity; mars; marsrover; nasa; science
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posted on
08/11/2012 2:10:13 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
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posted on
08/11/2012 2:28:49 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
We never went to Mars. We never went to the moon either. It's all a hoax. /s
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posted on
08/11/2012 2:30:27 AM PDT
by
South40
("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
To: South40
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posted on
08/11/2012 2:39:01 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
To: SunkenCiv
Nope, don’t see Alice on there either.
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posted on
08/11/2012 2:46:36 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
To: wastedyears
LOL! She’s everywhere! AAAH!
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posted on
08/11/2012 2:49:19 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
To: SunkenCiv
I wait for the day when humans explore the planet Mars!
Thanks for posting SunkenCiv!
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posted on
08/11/2012 2:51:09 AM PDT
by
Las Vegas Dave
(".....All 57 states must stand together and defeat usurper O-bozo!.....")
To: wastedyears
Who is that woman? Is she trying not to pick her nose? Or is this her “disapproval” face?
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posted on
08/11/2012 2:56:04 AM PDT
by
Ken522
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
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posted on
08/11/2012 3:02:48 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Las Vegas Dave; KevinDavis
Hey, we’re doing it right now — just not in person. :’) The only reason we’ve done more to explore the surface of the Moon than the surface of Mars is, we’ve had no sample return mission from Mars.
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posted on
08/11/2012 3:03:53 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
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posted on
08/11/2012 3:04:00 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: Ken522
She got the silver instead of the gold.
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posted on
08/11/2012 3:05:02 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: South40; wastedyears
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posted on
08/11/2012 3:05:02 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Ken522
US Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney. I think she was making that face because she didn’t win the gold.
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posted on
08/11/2012 3:07:05 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
To: SunkenCiv
Here's one you missed:
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posted on
08/11/2012 4:34:16 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Harry Reid [PERVERT-NV] has Vickie-the-goat in lingerie and stiletto heels, tied-up in his office.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
I wait for the day when humans explore the planet Mars!
I agree. The Robots are great for what they do but they just can't match humans in speed, curiosity, intuition, intellect, etc. Humans have the desire to see what's over the horizon. We also have the ability to make instant decisions while a robot has to sit there for up to 40 minutes while it waits for a command to move a few inches.
Ideally would be a mission conducted jointly with humans and robots with the robots under direct control of the men on the surface.
The robots have really restricted us to some fairly uninteresting areas of mars. They have to land in flat places when we really need to be looking into mountains, canyons and caves.
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posted on
08/11/2012 4:40:18 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: SunkenCiv
Local interview with one of the nasa scientists who worked on this project was asked whats next? he said............nothing is next, this is the end of the line, nothing is planned for the future.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/11/2012 5:30:05 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
To: cripplecreek
Human spaceflight is romantic and appeals to the public, but the lions share of the real science so far has come from these robotic missions. If we really want to pursue manned spaceflight as most people envision it, we should terminate the current manned program (which hasn’t changed much since the 60s) and pour the money into basic physics research. We need warp drive or something like it and we haven’t the foggiest idea how to do that.
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posted on
08/11/2012 5:34:51 AM PDT
by
beef
(Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/11/2012 5:41:05 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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