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News from Mars
An anonymous reader writes "While the Beagle 2 may have been gobbled up by Mars--Eater of Spacecraft, the main part of the ESA's recent Mars mission is doing well. The Mars Express Orbiter has sent back some amazing pictures of The Grand Canyon of Mars (Valles Marineris). Yes, this is the same gigantic geological feature that was missed by Mariner 4, 6, and 7 but finally found by Mariner 9. In other news, the Spirit rover is getting ready to grind the rock Adirondack (picture)."
How much time does it take it to grind a rock compared to the amount of time it takes to move one meter?
Check out Lunokhod, two Russian moon rovers from the early 1970s that drove around for months.
Not to bring down the Spirit guys or their great work, but their talk of pioneering 30cm moves sound a bit dull compared with Lunokhod, or the Pathfinder. Also look at the Russian Venera probes that managed to return images from the surface of Venus, at temperatures hot enough to melt lead and pressures of 90 bar.
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"While the Beagle 2 may have been gobbled up by Mars--Eater of Spacecraft, the main part of the ESA's recent Mars mission is doing well."
Um, excuse me, but wasn't the main part of the mission eaten by Mars? Let's not sugar-coat this now-- The biggest reason for going to Mars was to put something on Mars. That said, it's nice to know they're making use of the leftovers.
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Well, hell... the Brits still call the USA "the Colonies"... Sounds like "being very American" can actually be traced back to Europe in the first place :)
---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
. . . of "Adirondack Al," the wise-cracking otter from the Allegheny Animation Studio's show _The Runciple Potts Hour_?
You know, ran on the Muntz TV Network?
Had the guy who played Commodore Langly on _Space: Mission Upwards_ as Runciple Potts, the friendly lumber deliveryman who introduced the cartoons?
Jeeze, kids these days don't have appreciation of culture.
Stefan
>stupid mars probe. Also, hooray for communism!
Lets see,
links for the history of missions to the red planet
US Mars Missions
16 Launches containing 21 different probes (4 fly by, 8 orbiter, 4 landers, 3 rovers, 2 penetrators) of which only 7 where lost (1 fly by, 3 orbiters, 1 lander, and both penetrators).
Communist missions
19 Launches containing 25 different probes (6 flyby, 12 orbiter, 7 landers, 0 rovers, 0 penetrators) of which all where lost or failed.
Hurray for ?
And for those keeping score the European orbiter and lander went up on a russia rocket (1 orbiter, one lost lander).
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
That's probably because it is - the shadow is seperating the view from above (the top portion of the picture) from the side profile view (the bottom portion of the picture). I'd imagine the shadow is the only modified section of the picture.
Didn't this rover land near the old Viking probe sent down in the 70's? How about sending the rover off on it's last mission to get a picture of the Viking Probe? NASA could see how the probe has held up all these years. NASA would also get mad props too. :)
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It's not that the tops were sliced off. The whole area was probably a pretty flat plain before whatever (zillions of gallons of water, most likely) carved out the canyon. The flat areas are what's left of the original surface.
You'll see the same thing in canyon areas on Earth. As the valleys widen you get less and less of the original surface left, until the whole terrain is rugged.
-- Alastair