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Old May 27th 08, 04:47 AM posted to sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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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

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Old May 27th 08, 08:11 AM posted to sci.space.history
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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!

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Old May 27th 08, 08:13 AM posted to sci.space.history
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 02:11:59 -0500, OM
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Wonder if they're using hexene inside the struts?


....HexCELL. I meant Hexcell, dammit!

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Old May 27th 08, 07:23 PM posted to sci.space.history
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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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Old May 27th 08, 07:47 PM posted to sci.space.history
Jochem Huhmann
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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

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Old May 28th 08, 07:16 AM posted to sci.space.history
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:23:55 -0500, Pat Flannery
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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.

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Old May 31st 08, 08:57 PM posted to sci.space.history
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In article
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.


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