Sand has packed on over the cleats. Seems like they started losing traction after going over that last ridge.
Posted on 04/29/2005 2:18:48 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
Where's a shovel and a strip of carpet when you need them?
Maybe a nine iron?
This does not look good. There's no tread on the tires.
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?
You got it. I've always wondered if they can see in the dark with those things.
They will have to defeat House Atraides, Leto, Ma'adib and Susan Sarandon ick!
pong
Thought you might get a kick out of this.
Sand has packed on over the cleats. Seems like they started losing traction after going over that last ridge.
famous last words...
My thoughts exactly.
The little Rover that could..
Not good at all. Can the wheels be cantilevered to ride more on the rims?
Where the soil starts sticking to the wheel?
Time to call the other rover over from the other side of that thar beach ball.
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"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
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.
They should have used a real Jeep, it wouldn't be stuck!
bttt
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