I've been using a iHP-120 for a month now and I love it. (except for this morning when I found out that if you completely fill the HD it won't play anything!). The sound quality with the supplied earphones is great. Works well with linux (just another USB hard drive). I can use it when I'm running, but if it's just in my pocket, it can take a few seconds for the next song to be transferred from HD to ram. If its on my belt, no problem. I haven't used the recorder much but I'm impressed with the sound quality. The radio is OK, but I didn't spend all that moner for a radio. It's got upgradeable firmware which is useful. Best of all I don't look like another trendoid with my iPod!
Hematite (Fe2O3) is never magnetic. It's atomic structure makes it impossible. Magnetite (Fe3O4) is the magnetic iron oxide. If you want pictures of natural hematite, go to http://www.mindat.org Of course most hematite on Mars won't be so pretty.
I guess slashdot now has it's first Martian reader. There must be a hellish latency between here and mars!
http://stoner.eps.mcgill.ca/wtp/planets/welcome/ma rs.htm
You need to run setup/net from the install directory (as root). Next (as an ordinary user) run the setup program in the directory where you installed the suite. This sets up the program for regular users.
HTH
Glenn
The reason that at least some of these rocks are thought to be from Mars is that bubbles in the the impact glass (i.e glass formed during the impact that ejected them from Mars) contain gasses whose isotopic rations could only be found in the Martian atmosphere. Others are believed to originate on Mars because the chemistry of the rocks indicate extensive geological processing that could have only occurred on a relative large (and wet) planet. Since these rocks have O isotope ratios that are unlike Earth's and it is really hard to get rocks up the gravity well from Venus, Mars is the only choice.
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I don't imageine the samples would be left lying on the surface. A few meters of rock would stop most of the cosmic radiation
I've been using a iHP-120 for a month now and I love it. (except for this morning when I found out that if you completely fill the HD it won't play anything!). The sound quality with the supplied earphones is great. Works well with linux (just another USB hard drive). I can use it when I'm running, but if it's just in my pocket, it can take a few seconds for the next song to be transferred from HD to ram. If its on my belt, no problem. I haven't used the recorder much but I'm impressed with the sound quality. The radio is OK, but I didn't spend all that moner for a radio. It's got upgradeable firmware which is useful. Best of all I don't look like another trendoid with my iPod!
Hematite (Fe2O3) is never magnetic. It's atomic structure makes it impossible. Magnetite (Fe3O4) is the magnetic iron oxide. If you want pictures of natural hematite, go to http://www.mindat.org Of course most hematite on Mars won't be so pretty.
I guess slashdot now has it's first Martian reader. There must be a hellish latency between here and mars! http://stoner.eps.mcgill.ca/wtp/planets/welcome/ma rs.htm
You need to run setup /net from the install directory (as root). Next (as an ordinary user) run the setup program in the directory where you installed the suite. This sets up the program for regular users.
HTH
Glenn
The reason that at least some of these rocks are thought to be from Mars is that bubbles in the the impact glass (i.e glass formed during the impact that ejected them from Mars) contain gasses whose isotopic rations could only be found in the Martian atmosphere. Others are believed to originate on Mars because the chemistry of the rocks indicate extensive geological processing that could have only occurred on a relative large (and wet) planet. Since these rocks have O isotope ratios that are unlike Earth's and it is really hard to get rocks up the gravity well from Venus, Mars is the only choice.
Hey! :->)
There's a whole other province in that area code!
You have to watch out for these mainlanders