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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."
stay tuned as the rovers welcome a brand new year on Mars.
What does an earth year have to do with a martian year? Nothing thats what!
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
One of the things that impressed me most about this mission is when they had to take into account the changing seasons on Mars, and their effect on the rovers.
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We are not only on other planets, but planning for spring!
Happy new year! (And let's hope the evaporating methane does not mess up the sensors come summer
maybe they could use the same sets for the manned mission.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
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.
You have _got_ to be kidding me.
It's only saving grace is that it's not flash by default. The intro looks like one of those late 80's slideshow, and the navigation of the main page is infuriatingly confusing and useless.
I'm about to fire it off to one of my friends who teaches web design as an example of what _not_ to do in a web page.
I actaully _like_ pretty flash, but when it just slows things down and makes navigation harder, well then it's stupid.
I guess it's better than the html, which seems broken with my firefox setup.
Seems to put to bed the question of liquid water on Mars.
And how do we know that isn't the rover's transmission fluid that leaked out??
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
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
I think NASA rovers was one of the rare things in 2004 which united whole world. They were there for purerly scientific reasons, they did what they had been sent to do, even more - they continue to rock on and provide more and more details, overloading NASA scientists with work for years.
I see it as victory of science over money, politics, everything which seperate us. Because I think nothing beat those news that we discovered that Mars once definetly has water. So... there should be living organisms on other planets. There could be something like us, humans.
I think nothing beats that feeling when science and common sence works for whole humanity.
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The movie section says "grab some popcorn and select one of the movies to the left to start the show". I'd rather say "select one of the movies to the left, then drive to the mall to buy some popcorn, and when you're back, it will start".
Dear Sirs. We managed to slashdot NASA. Congratulations.
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For some reason I thought the rovers were MUCH smaller than they really are. Heck, this thing is bigger than the lunar "automobile" (the copy of it I've seen in Boeing museum).
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.
Are you alowing for the time-lag to Mars and back?
Want me to dig up the "Beagle 2 lost" and "NASA Rovers working" stories? All that rambling about NASA superiority over ESA, "US - Europe 2:0" and such? Maybe if they were a common effort, they would unite the world, but it seems with Beagle 2 demise they only made the conflict deeper.
No, of course they are great devices, great succes, and scientifically priceless and all that. It's just that they didn't help a thing on the social level.
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Technically, a year is how long it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun.
A martian year is measured in terms of earth years.
So technically, a year is a constant as the earth's rotation around the Sun.
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And how do we know that isn't the rover's transmission fluid that leaked out??
Because Ford motor company didn't make it.
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Spirit landed in early January and Opportunity in late January. If something goes wrong between now and then, the "Year on Mars" campaign will have egg all over it.
Table-ized A.I.
A martian 'year' is much longer...
Oh, stop complaining about download times.
Table-ized A.I.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
First prize: a year on Mars.
Second Prize: two years on Mars.
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322 days? Should't you be measuring in sols?
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
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.