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One Year on Mars
RetroGeek writes "It has been almost a full year for the Mars rovers. NASA has created a flashback of rover images and information. You can use either HTML or Flash (it is the best use of the technology I have seen). There is even a movie taken from the hazard avoidance camera showing the full year of travel."
A martian 'year' is much longer...
Or so it seems. The video is loading very slowly.
I liked the flash presentation. Informative and interactive without being a full blown technology show-off.
Sigs are for Terrorists.
Those of us in the U.S. may be interested in the Welcome to Mars tht will be broadcast next Tuesday, January 4th, on Nova.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Now lets try for a Mars Year,
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322 days to go.
Interesting information on Mars Time:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.
What is time really?
It helps us sync here on Earth, but it certainly
gets crazy once we move into the great beyond.
Wonder what those Mars team members are doing for New Year?
They had to follow a different time.
Cicadian Time would certainly be muddled.
http://www.nsbri.org/Research/Projects/viewsummar
Works fine with Firefox/WinXP for me. Are you sure you don't have any funny extensions installed? For example, I did indeed discover that the Tabbrowser Preferences extension doesn't play well with windows that have no menu bars.
I seem to recall, from reading Lucky Starr in the 1970s, that the Martian year is 687 Earth days.
With the rovers there for so long, it sure would be interesting to get them back here. Nice chance to study the long-term effects of the Martian environment.
Apollo lunar rover dimensions: 3.0m x 2.3m
Mars Exploration Rover dimensions: 1.6m x 2.3m
Perhaps the copy you saw was a scale model?
It works fine on my (Mandrake) Linux laptop with Mozilla 1.7.3 and the Linux Flash Player 7...
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
Helium-3 is considered the prime resource for the Moon, not Mars. Martian soil is unlikely to have much Helium due to the fact that it has a (compared to the Moon) thick atmosphere of other gasses. On the moon, much of the solar wind is able to directly impact the soil, which allows the Helium-3 to embed into the rocks on the lunar surface.
Similar conditions also exist on Phobos and Deimos, but in that case any Helium-3 extracted there will probabaly be used by Mars, and not the Earth, if any Martian colonies ever get established.
As far as a good location for a telescope, the Sea of Moscow (on the far side of the moon) or perhaps even closer to the lunar equator would be a fantastic location for a radio telescope.... you would be able to block out almost all human radio traffic, and all that is left would be from space missions in interplantary space. I hope that I can see it built in my lifetime.