On Dec 4, 11:27 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
....as was suspected in recent weeks:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7765818.stm
This will further drive up the costs of the already way-over-budget program.

Pat

With that nifty plank of Mars wood setting in plain sight, as such
sort of changes most everything, doesn't it.

An old railway sleeper found on Mars?

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.s...a5bc47d?hl=en#
On Dec 2, 3:21 am, Neil Gerace wrote:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...l_L-B118R1.jpg

Opportunity / Sol 115, May 25, 2004
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...nity_n115.html

Makes this nifty plank of Mars wood from a fairly old archived image
kind of weird. Wonder why it was intentionally withheld for so many
years. Apparently the faith-based rusemasters that are about to lose
their public funded jobs are starting to uncontrollably sweat.

Perhaps keeping our public media focus on Mars instead of Venus is
clearly their priority number one.

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That's certainly a good one, as though looking kind of "old railway
sleeper" artificial. (? apparently Mars once had trees to make rail
ties?)

Seems they ran directly over the top of it, so it's not such a large
rail sleeper/tie as you'd think.

However, small Mars folks shouldn't have needed much bigger than
quarter-scale.

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