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One Year on Mars

Posted by michael on from the tempus-fugit dept.

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."

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  1. PBS special next Tuesday by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  2. A new milestone. by qualico · · Score: 4, Informative

    Now lets try for a Mars Year,
    322 days to go.

    Interesting information on Mars Time:
    http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.h tml

    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/viewsummary .epl?pid=55

  3. Holy Childhood Flashbacks... by JohnPerkins · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Wow, I didn't realize they were so BIG by wronkiew · · Score: 4, Informative

    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?