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In case anyone hasn't bookmarked it; here's the official webpage for the
incoming Phoenix imagery: http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=0&cID=8 BTW, did the landing gear incorporate coiled springs for shock absorption?: http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=507&cID=8 Pat |
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On Mon, 26 May 2008 22:47:54 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote: BTW, did the landing gear incorporate coiled springs for shock absorption?: http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=507&cID=8 ....Sure looks like it. Wonder if they're using hexene inside the struts? ....And the downward-looking panoramas have started being assembled: http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=536&cID=8 ....Always thought those were the k00l3zt pictures from the early days of the MER deployment. Gave you the feeling as if you were riding the damn thing! OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 02:11:59 -0500, OM
wrote: Wonder if they're using hexene inside the struts? ....HexCELL. I meant Hexcell, dammit! OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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OM wrote: ...Sure looks like it. Wonder if they're using hexene inside the struts? ...And the downward-looking panoramas have started being assembled: http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=536&cID=8 ...Always thought those were the k00l3zt pictures from the early days of the MER deployment. Gave you the feeling as if you were riding the damn thing! They are going to have a hard time naming any features at this landing site, unless you want to start naming individual small rocks. Pat |
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Pat Flannery writes:
OM wrote: ...Sure looks like it. Wonder if they're using hexene inside the struts? ...And the downward-looking panoramas have started being assembled: http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=536&cID=8 ...Always thought those were the k00l3zt pictures from the early days of the MER deployment. Gave you the feeling as if you were riding the damn thing! They are going to have a hard time naming any features at this landing site, unless you want to start naming individual small rocks. Which could be a bit offendig... but you can turn this into a feature, of course! What about naming a grain of sand after George W. Bush? Well, once they start digging and *if* they find something remarkable, you can always name the scratch at the surface which yielded that microscopic fossile after Arthur C. Clarke or so. And naming the landing site "Blabla Station" works every time. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:23:55 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote: They are going to have a hard time naming any features at this landing site, unless you want to start naming individual small rocks. ....The biggest of the smaller rocks they can finally call Boo-Boo. OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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tatelephone, Pat Flannery wrote: They are going to have a hard time naming any features at this landing site, unless you want to start naming individual small rocks. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/sc...ce/30mars.html The science team has started naming the rocks, drawing from fairy tales and folk legends. One Humpty-Dumpty-inspired rock was named ³King¹s Men,² and another ³King¹s Horses.² One otrough was named ³Sleepy Hollow,² so two nearby rocks are now ³Ichabod² after Ichabod Crane, the main character of the story, and ³Headless,² the headless horseman who pursues Ichabod. -- David M. Palmer (formerly @clark.net, @ematic.com) |
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