GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 1/4/04-Gusev Crater,Kabul

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[Diogenesis]

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 1/4/04 - Gusev Crater, Mars, Kabul

BREAKING: Gusev Crater, Mars - American technology doing its thing in a far away place.
BREAKING: Kabul, Afghanis freed by the USA. New Constitution planted in a far away place.

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========= Gusev Crater =========

A panoramic image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover spacecraft
from the surface of Mars, taken after landing January 3, 2004.

At Gusev Crater, from the navigation camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit,
a 360 degree panoramic view of the rover on the surface of Mars.

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The Gusev Crater area on the planet Mars, landing site the Mars explorer Spirit,
is pictured in this overlay map from the USGS and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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At Gusev Crater, Mars, from the Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES) camera,
on the bottom of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's lander,
taken as the lander descended to Mars, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2004.

At an altitude of 1985 meters.

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At an altitude of 1690 meters.

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This picture was taken at an altitude of 1400 meters.
Numerous small impact craters can be seen on the surface of the planet.

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Other pictures taken on descent

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At Gusev Crater.

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At Gusev Crater, from the hazard avoidance camera.
This image shows the rover's rear lander petal and, in the background, the Martian horizon.
pirit took the picture right after successfully landing on the surface of Mars.

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========= NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory =========

At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

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========= Twin NASA robots =========

The twin NASA robots.

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The Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit, in this artist's drawings.

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========= Beagle Missing =========

Can Amerian karma find the missing European dogma?

This oblique Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
wide angle red image released 31 December, 2003 shows the Beagle 2 landing zone,
located in Isidis Planitia, about 18 minutes after the probe
was scheduled to touch down on 25 December 2003.
The white ellipse shows the approximate location of the putative landing site.

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========= Back on Earth: Kabul =========

In Kabul, Afghanis were conquered by the Americans to vanquish the Taliban
and then handed their own country back to them with a new Constitution
and with freedom for women.

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Don't you agree?

America - from Mars to Afghanistan to beyond this solar system,
America - A great people with superior technology seeking new lands and Democracies.

Please spend a few hours today helping for success in the War for Enduring Freedom.

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END OF TRANSMISSION 1/4/04 .......... K

[Diogenesis]

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[McGavin999]

An incredible contrast Diogenesis, yet both represent hope for the future.

[OXENinFLA]

Can you hear me now?

[Darksheare]

Dancing man on right: "Newton METERS not Newton Feet, and the mission is COMPLETE!"
Man on left: "Oh ho! you did it, I owe you 5 bucks."
Man in background, center: "Oh darn, I bet everything that we'd mess up again."

Good compilation Dioge, I just GOTTA bust on NASA though..

[MaeWest]

Bump for America

What a great way to start the day!

[BraveMan]

The Discovery Channel website has an interesting Flash presentation highlighting the various components of the Mars Rover. Click the link below to view the presentation.

Explore The Rover

[Incorrigible]

I wonder if the US rover will find the Beagle?

[Pahuanui]

Hey! Michael Chang now works for NASA. Who knew?

[Diogenesis]

Great pic, Incorrigible.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you for sharing your gift with us, Diogenesis. Always a joy.
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========= NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory =========

At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

 

========= Back on Earth: Kabul =========

In Kabul, Afghanis were conquered by the Americans to vanquish the Taliban
and then handed their own country back to them with a new Constitution
and with freedom for women.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

From the Middle East to Mars... vision and strength.

[Gordian Blade]

America - A great people with superior technology seeking new lands and Democracies.

I read this quickly the first time through and I thought you were saying, "America - A great people with superior technology seeking new lands for Democrats." As in send them all to Mars.

[F14 Pilot]

Thanks for this great PING, the greatest ping I ever received...!

[Valin]

And this would be a bad thing? :-)

[Valin]

Where's Marvin the Martian?

[blackie]

Great Stuff ~ Bump!

[RckyRaCoCo]

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[Diogenesis]

"Drop your linen, and stop your grinnin' .."
THE FIRST 3D picture from MARS in 2004. Grab your 3D-glasses.

[eureka!]

Yes, bump for America...

[windchime]

Fantastic photos. Looking forward to the color pics Rover should be sending back soon.

[TexasTransplant]

Fire up the sand rail! I have the ice chest.

[Aquamarine]

This picture just takes my breath!

[Criminal Number 18F]

The "dancing man on right" in the blue shirt and jeans is Steve Sqyres, Principal Investigator (in other words, science lead on the mission). The applauding man on the left, with the white hair and moustache, is NASA Administrator Sean O'Keeffe.

These guys (and the other celebrating pros in the pictures) have worked hard, and O'Keefe in particular has deserved a good break for quite a while now.

Dio, I just gotta thank you for these excellent posts. I really appreciate it and occasionally I save one complete to disk and use it to show people who say, "why are we there when they hate us?"

I tell them the best thing to do if you want to be informed is deep-six your TV and start surfing the net.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Happy2BMe]

Was that taken with one of those new digital cameras?

[Happy2BMe]

I agree.

Land of the free - Home of the brave.

Very impressive - very American.

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[Darksheare]

He really does look like he's dancing.
What's with the dour look on that guy's face in the center background?

[VOA]

========= NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory =========

At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
---caption of AMERICAN (of Asian extraction) pumping his fist in the moment of triumph...
OK, after all the times, I've thrown brickbats at NASA...WAY TO GO GUYS AND GALS!
And you'd think that Saddam would have realized that a country that can do
"action at a distance" all the way to Mars wouldn't have any trouble with
precision "shock and awe" here on Earth...or cleaning out spider-holes!


In Kabul, Afghanis were conquered by the Americans to vanquish the Taliban
and then handed their own country back to them with a new Constitution
and with freedom for women.

Here's a thought to wrap our minds around:
Women in Afghanistan may end up with more respect and better treatment...
than women get in the inner-city hip-hop/gangsta' culture of the
major metropolitan areas of the USA...weird...

[lizma]

I had a chemistry prof who was involved in the Viking Lander back in the 70's. He spent a whole class describing this feeling. What a great thing to experience.

(I bet it was almost as good as I felt when Bush won the election ;->)

p.s. Thanks Dio for all your work. It's much appreciated.

[Criminal Number 18F]

What's with the dour look on that guy's face in the center background?

Look at him closely, he's grinning very, very widely, just without showing teeth, and he's applauding (not the moving hand blurred by the camera). Other pictures show him even showing teeth.

He is one of the mission control staff and while he's personally involved, he may not be as deeply invested emotionally as O'Keefe and Squyres are. Their names are on this mission in a way that all of the many thousands of people who make it possible are not. So they are even more happy (and even more relieved) at a success, than the rest of the NASA crowd.

And then, as everyone knows from watching TV, which is never wrong about anything, scientists and engineers are cold unfeeling automatons, except when they are megalomaniacs.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[ThomasMore]

 BIG FREEDOM BUMP!

Here's a link to all the rest.

Great job Diogenesis!

Updated!! 12-16-2003

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God Bless America!

[ThomasMore]

Why We Fight!

View this Shock Wave Flash Presentation
...and see why we are still fighting Terrorism!

NEVER FORGET!

 

[Darksheare]

OKers.

[elfman2]

I twice tried through Freepermail to get you to address what the width of this photo’s doing to everyone’s message box, but you don’t seem to care enough to respond. Please delete me from your ping lists