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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.
:)
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.
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 guess it's better than the html, which seems broken with my firefox setup.
Yep, it's broken on firefox with me too, running default setup on WinXP.
Given the fact that they can't make a simple webpage work with more than one browser makes me wonder how the hell did they manage to put two rovers on an another planet for a year...
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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".
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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.
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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Squirrel