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Mars Rover's Bizarre Behavior Puzzles NASA
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485345,00.html ^ | 1/29/2009 | Tariq Malik

Posted on 01/29/2009 2:43:17 PM PST by james500

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To: DCPatriot; james500
This is one of my top five favorite surface images of of Mars.

Clouds above the rim of "Endurance Crater" in this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. These clouds occur in a region of strong vertical shear. The cloud particles (ice in this martian case) fall out, and get dragged along away from the location where they originally condensed, forming characteristic streamers. Opportunity took this picture with its navigation camera during the rover's 269th martian day (Oct. 26, 2004). (NASA/JPL)

61 posted on 01/29/2009 3:58:24 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: Repeal The 17th
I thought that was “V-GER”.

Yeah, her too. :-)


62 posted on 01/29/2009 3:59:00 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

Yeah, don’t you just want to be “The Kirk” - “The Creator”...


63 posted on 01/29/2009 4:05:57 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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To: james500

“The aging Mars rover did not beam home a record of its weekend activities and, more puzzlingly, apparently failed to even record any of its actions on Sunday”

My wife has the same complaint about me.


64 posted on 01/29/2009 4:06:22 PM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: DCPatriot

LOLOLOL


65 posted on 01/29/2009 4:13:34 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.)
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To: james500
"Excellent." The evil power companies!?
66 posted on 01/29/2009 4:15:06 PM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism, it's the new black.)
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To: james500

It’s a free Spirit and this is its Wanderjahr.


67 posted on 01/29/2009 4:19:46 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (American Revolution II, overdue.)
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To: james500

“You humans are so pecular...”


68 posted on 01/29/2009 4:21:36 PM PST by meyer (We are all John Galt)
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To: ReneeLynn

Dunno, maybe Rover was telling the truth. It was Monday, it was cloudy, the sun wasn’t shining. Rover probably thinking, “What is up with those stupid humans anyway? Don’t they think I would point my camera at the sun - if the sun was freaking shining today? Get a life and tell the watercooler to get cold or something...geesh.”


69 posted on 01/29/2009 4:21:53 PM PST by RonInNaples
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To: Professional Engineer
The returned data just says: 1:4:9

Genesis 4:9, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

70 posted on 01/29/2009 4:37:17 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (American Revolution II, overdue.)
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71 posted on 01/29/2009 4:42:41 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: BlueNgold
Wolowitz on the loose. Beautiful. We'll know for sure if it detects life.
72 posted on 01/29/2009 4:47:31 PM PST by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: Red Steel

NOMAD: The lamest premise for a movie. Ever.


73 posted on 01/29/2009 5:20:29 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: Williams
I think Rover tipped over.

"I'm looking over an in-vert-ed Rover, that I overlooked before..."

74 posted on 01/29/2009 5:45:42 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: james500
"You're parked in my spot!"


75 posted on 01/29/2009 6:00:06 PM PST by Starfleet Command
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To: james500
The aging Mars rover did not beam home a record of its weekend activities

Party time!

76 posted on 01/29/2009 6:02:10 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Welcome to Detroit, the Renaissance city......)
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To: swarthyguy

Novels? You mean that was FICTION?

Ach, hoot, Mon! Ye kinna troost no aine ainy maire!


77 posted on 01/29/2009 6:10:14 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: txroadkill
That guy gets my thoat!


78 posted on 01/29/2009 6:26:46 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: james500

This is the last complete image sent to earth by the Mars Rover:

Shortly afterwards, the Rover is said to have requested a shipment of munchies...


79 posted on 01/29/2009 6:31:16 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck, with McCain as his Kowakian)
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To: colorado tanker
thanks ct.
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80 posted on 01/29/2009 6:44:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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