Mars rabbits and other malfunctions

Carlos Santillan wrote:




Surely dust storms and dust devils can produce lightning bolts.


They can on Frank Herbert's Arrakis, but on Mars? And with enough energy
to fuse the soil?

If the arm can not pick objects up then I fell victim to a website
that posts false information, What's that picture of the Robot arm
holding an object then?


The tools on the end of the robot arm, not an object in its grasp. It
appears to be examining the soil.

Pat

Dosco Jones wrote:

You may be referring to the set of instruments on the end of the arm.


Here's the pictu http://www.freepressinternational.com/marshorn.html

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote in
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http://www.freepressinternational.com/marshorn.html

That picture shows a Rover arm, with the normal attached instruments. There
is nothing extra or missing in it. Every single knob, line and doodad in
the picture is accounted for in the rover inventory.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_rover_arm.html shows
schematics of what to expect on the arm.

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Dosco Jones wrote:

You may be referring to the set of instruments on the end of the arm.


Here's the pictu http://www.freepressinternational.com/marshorn.html

Pat


What hoser put that web page together?

Marvin wrote:

That picture shows a Rover arm, with the normal attached instruments. There
is nothing extra or missing in it. Every single knob, line and doodad in
the picture is accounted for in the rover inventory.


The other question would be once the nonexistent claw picked up a rock,
what the hell was the rover supposed to do with it?

Pat

Dosco Jones wrote:

Here's the pictu http://www.freepressinternational.com/marshorn.html

Pat




What hoser put that web page together?


These hoseheads: http://www.freepressinternational.com/life.html

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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The other question would be once the nonexistent claw picked up a rock,
what the hell was the rover supposed to do with it?

Take it to Grandma's house?

Michael Gallagher wrote in message . ..
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:37:20 -0000, "Icarus"
wrote:

The thingummyjig was gone before the rover even left the lander,
so it couldn't have squished it.


GONE, you say?

Hmmmmmm ......

Must be wabbit season on Mars. Oh, and I hope those guys at JPL
don't mind that guy's smoking inside, nope, don't mind him at all; you

It must be just Sandtrout. I hope the rover does not produce to much
vibration thou...

won't disa




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(Carlos Santillan) wrote in message . com...
Pat Flannery wrote in message ...

I saw a picture of the object being held on the arm of the rover.

Mars? Lightning storms? That's not the weather it has nowadays.


Surely dust storms and dust devils can produce lightning bolts.

Pat


If the arm can not pick objects up then I fell victim to a website
that posts false information, What's that picture of the Robot arm
holding an object then?

Yeah. I'll point out however that on Earth we can find naturally
formed rocks that look like anything from rabbits to cars, bones
and locomotives. That's why only usining visual information to
try and spot fossils is a bad idea.

-McDaniel

Hobbs aka McDaniel wrote:


Yeah. I'll point out however that on Earth we can find naturally
formed rocks that look like anything from rabbits to cars, bones
and locomotives. That's why only using visual information to
try and spot fossils is a bad idea.



I'm an amateur paleontologist, and rocks that happen to resemble fossils
are called pseudofossils (I've got a rock that looks like a giant
toothy grin because a whitish mineral got into a crescent-shaped crack
in it, and then it was ground down smooth be glacial effects.- this is
my "Fossil Cheshire Cat".) but using the rover's microscopic viewer on
any Martian fossils should be able to identify them with some degree of
certainty true fossils show detail and symmetry under magnification;
pseudofossils don't.

Pat