Gusev Crater Planet Mars [Rover Saturday]

spacedaily.com ^ | 1 Jan 04 | Karen Miller

[RightWhale]

Doesn't compare with the excitement of the Yellowstone caldera, but several scientific hypotheses would be tested when Rover starts roving around the crater floor.

[farmfriend]

Space ping.

[Veritas_est]

"There's not much doubt: this site contained a body of liquid water, at least for some amount of time," says Jim Garvin, NASA's Lead Scientist for Mars Exploration.

Interpretation: "We're just guessing here, but we really want to look like professionals, and have you believe we know what we're talking about."

[Consort]

They should land it near that British Beagle to see what happened to it.

[per loin]

The martians are not currently admitting visitors.

[Orlando]

Gusev Crater is located 14.5 (South) and 175.3 (East)
just south of Mars equator, but what region is Gusev located ?

Here's the realtime approach of Mars Spirit Lander to Mars.
At 2:20 pm,est (0720 GMT) Spirit is approx 460,747 km , which is 286,294 miles.

The Earth/Moon lunar distance is 384,401 km, which = 238,856 miles.

http://mars1.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/realtime/mera1.jpg

The new avg daytime temp by the equator in summer-time is
approx 65 degrees F, which is 20 C.

http://tes.asu.edu/tdaydaily.gif

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

And they are photographing, fingerprinting all others.

This is a profiling planet!

[Orlando]

Here's a semi-done Mars Atlas without long/Lat...numbers,so
it hard to pin-point Gusev Crater without those Long/lat..
Does anybody know the region where Spirit is going to land at ?


http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/atlas/index.html


Hope that helps ?

[MHGinTN]

Does anyone know whether the landing will be covered for general public consumption ... as in live?

[Orlando]

I think there will be a 10 minute + delay not sure?

This might help alittle ?

http://www.msss.com/mer_mission/finding_mer/index.html

I guess they (jpl) don't want the public seeing live images. You never know, who might should up ?

[NewRomeTacitus]

Probably little live coverage considering only three of the last thirteen probes landed successfully. Bad PR potential.
Here's another page from the above-mentioned site with photographs of the crater. You have to love the optimistic diagram of Spirit's intended territory.
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/craters/

[Orlando]

sorry, that's show-up.

[MHGinTN]

Thank you.

[MHGinTN]

Appreciate the link. I find this a lot more interesting than the bowl games ... and I'm a football fan!

[woofer]

Interpretation: "We're just guessing here, but we really want to look like professionals, and have you believe we know what we're talking about."

"Send more money."

[Caipirabob]

The martians are not currently admitting visitors.

Yeah, they saw what happened with California and the Mexicans...

[GRRRRR]

I think Karl Rover should be staying at the White House and not roaming around, all over the place. He's got plenty of work to do for President Bush...sheesh, get our priorities straight!

GRRRRR

[Orlando]

If I was in charge in sending Mars Landers , I would send a lander to the most interesting place on Mars the Cydonia Region.


http://www.msss.com/education/facepage/pio.gif


The place I would STAY AWAY FROM is the "Arabia Terra Region" The was a image looking at a small cave in a dark
color spot in a crater, and the image speaks for itself, if you zoom in 2x,4x in middle of image, what you see looks
________ ??? Here's that imaage.


http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/dec00_seds/8N7W/M14-01647subc.jpg

[Orlando]

It changes #'s at times.

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/dec00_seds/8N7W/M14-01647subc1.jpg

[RightWhale]

The most interesting-looking place may not turn out to be the most interesting. The other image didn't load.