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Mars Rover Encounters Dune
JPL Rover website ^ | 29 April 2005 | NASA photo

Posted on 04/29/2005 2:18:48 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo

Mars Rover Opportunity Raw Image site.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dune; mars; nasa; opportunity
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Where's a shovel and a strip of carpet when you need them?

Maybe a nine iron?


21 posted on 04/29/2005 2:28:59 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

This does not look good. There's no tread on the tires.


22 posted on 04/29/2005 2:29:04 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: cabojoe

Looks like that soil has a crust. Icy layer on top?

Here's a question. Go to the link cabojoe gave, click on the image that shows the small crater. What is it about the human brain that makes that crater look like a bump, but if you turn the picture upside down, it looks like a crater? Where did we get the inability to see craters correctly if they are lit "wrong"? And why?


23 posted on 04/29/2005 2:30:15 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: dts32041

You got it. I've always wondered if they can see in the dark with those things.


24 posted on 04/29/2005 2:30:46 PM PDT by Bacon Man (I wanna live to see how global warming turns out. I have an inside tip it's all a load of crap.)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

They will have to defeat House Atraides, Leto, Ma'adib and Susan Sarandon ick!


25 posted on 04/29/2005 2:30:51 PM PDT by STD (Last Action Hero)
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To: AdmSmith; spetznaz; F14 Pilot

pong


26 posted on 04/29/2005 2:33:13 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
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To: mhking
LOL

Thought you might get a kick out of this.

He Who Controls the Cheese Controls the Universe

27 posted on 04/29/2005 2:33:19 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
There's no tread on the tires.

Sand has packed on over the cleats. Seems like they started losing traction after going over that last ridge.


28 posted on 04/29/2005 2:34:19 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Boys, we'll set up camp......here!

famous last words...

29 posted on 04/29/2005 2:37:10 PM PDT by ImProudToBeAnAmerican (Tom Daschle is deeply saddened... Remember him? Bahahahahahahahahaha!)
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To: siunevada

My thoughts exactly.


30 posted on 04/29/2005 2:38:28 PM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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To: d-informed-1

The little Rover that could..


31 posted on 04/29/2005 2:39:14 PM PDT by Dog ( Premier news hound and proud member of FR's Pajama News Service...winner of several Buckeye awards.)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Prelude to getting stuck...


32 posted on 04/29/2005 2:42:48 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Fitzcarraldo
" Sand has packed on over the cleats. Seems like they started losing traction after going over that last ridge."

Not good at all. Can the wheels be cantilevered to ride more on the rims?

33 posted on 04/29/2005 2:44:04 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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Where the soil starts sticking to the wheel?


34 posted on 04/29/2005 2:44:14 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Time to call the other rover over from the other side of that thar beach ball.


35 posted on 04/29/2005 2:44:26 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
Can the wheels be cantilevered to ride more on the rims?

Checking...

36 posted on 04/29/2005 2:46:05 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Right Wing Assault

"Here's a question. Go to the link cabojoe gave, click on the image that shows the small crater. What is it about the human brain that makes that crater look like a bump, but if you turn the picture upside down, it looks like a crater? Where did we get the inability to see craters correctly if they are lit "wrong"? And why?"

Funny, I noticed that too.. I am an avid viewer or space pictures.. I always notice that a depression can look like a raised area, and vice versa, if it is lit a certain way..

It is very strange, interesting you brought it up. I thought I was the only one...

I remember thinking.. "Olympus Mons is that big hole in the ground?"

LOL

Bones


37 posted on 04/29/2005 2:46:33 PM PDT by Bones75
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Maybe the aliens living in the pyramid in the eye of the face on Mars (you know, the ones that got Bush elected and caused the Iraq war?) can go and dig the rover out.


38 posted on 04/29/2005 2:48:59 PM PDT by ClaudiusI
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To: Fitzcarraldo

They should have used a real Jeep, it wouldn't be stuck!


39 posted on 04/29/2005 2:49:06 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (Let Me Die on My Feet in the Swamp, BUAIDH NO BAS)
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bttt


40 posted on 04/29/2005 2:51:59 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Converting trees into blueprints as fast as I can.)
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