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Odyssey Arriving at Mars Tonight

Posted by michael on Monday October 22, 2001 @11:31PM from the home-from-the-wars dept.

moloader writes: "Odyssey will arrive at Mars on October 24, 2001, 0230 Universal Time (October 23, 7:30pm PDT/ 10:30pm EDT). As it nears its closest point to the planet over the northern hemisphere, the spacecraft will fire its 640-newton main engine for approximately 19.7 minutes to allow itself to be captured into an elliptical, or looping, orbit about 20 hours long. Go Mars!"

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Re:Commander Taco by 348 · 2001-10-23 00:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

LOL, actually it was Taco himself. When he wrote the infamous First Post Script. But that aside, it would have to be Signal 11.

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I admit it. by 91degrees · 2001-10-23 01:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It was blatant Quayle plagarism. Well spotted.
Re:640 Newtons by dev!null!4d · 2001-10-23 01:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

can they run linux...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these !!!

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Re:640 Newtons by [amorphis] · 2001-10-23 05:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

funny, but whomever modded that up as "Informative" is smoking crack.