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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2012 2:00:14 GMT -6
I have still seen nothing on these links except people talking about it is going to land. Lois- the link I posted was a live feed. It landed live through that link but I have no idea what the link goes to now... There are lots of pictures on the internet and on facebook (I shared a couple) of the photographs Curiosity took after it landed.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2012 9:31:20 GMT -6
Thanks to Swampy, Auntym, Lorelei, and of course NASA for providing links to this awesome event. I'm ecstatic at the fact that NASA was able to actually pull this off successfully, it just goes to show good ole American ingenuity at it's finest .
There is nothing we can't do if we just set our minds to it !
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Post by auntym on Aug 7, 2012 13:39:18 GMT -6
AP AP PHOTOS: More images of the red planet, courtesy of Curiosity: IMAGES OF MARS[/color] New photos from the rover Curiosity show the Martian surface that scientists hope to search for clues on whether the red planet was once home to water, an essential building block of life. These photos released by NASA also give us our first view of a spacecraft landing on an alien world. CLICK TO SEE SLIDE SHOW: bigstory.ap.org/slideshow/curiosity-lands-mars
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Post by auntym on Aug 9, 2012 21:19:17 GMT -6
NASA JET PROPULSION LABRATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY FOLLOW YOUR CURIOSITY[/color] CLICK TO WATCHmars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
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Post by skywalker on Aug 9, 2012 23:33:12 GMT -6
I have a question. Why do they make all the photos black and white? Is there a reason for that? NASA does realize that were are in the 21st century now don't they? We do have this stuff called color film now...not to mention colored digital images. Hello? What's up with that?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2012 2:37:45 GMT -6
I have a question. Why do they make all the photos black and white? Is there a reason for that? NASA does realize that were are in the 21st century now don't they? We do have this stuff called color film now...not to mention colored digital images. Hello? What's up with that? It makes it harder to spot the little green men ;D
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Post by swamprat on Aug 10, 2012 7:27:15 GMT -6
Nah, they can't afford color since their budget got cut.....
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Post by auntym on Aug 10, 2012 11:12:26 GMT -6
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19201742 9 August 2012 Mars rover makes first colour paannama By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News, Pasadena The first 360-degree colour paannama is made up of low-resolution thumbnails. It will take a while to get the hi-res frames down Nasa's new Mars rover has returned its first 360-degree colour paannama from the surface of the Red Planet. The Curiosity robot used its wideangle science camera placed high up on a mast to acquire the frames. The low-resolution vista shows at centre the big mountain that lies in the middle of Gale Crater, the deep depression in which the rover landed. Curiosity's ultimate goal is to drive towards this peak - informally known as Mount Sharp - to study its rocks. "This is a very low-resolution paannama," explained Mike Malin, the principal investigator on the rover's Mastcam cameras. "The individual frames are only 144 by 144 pixels. There are 130 of them in there. It took us about an hour and six minutes to take the mosaic. "For the full-resolution paannama, the data volume will be 64 times larger, [and] the resolution will be eight times better. But this was pretty enough and interesting enough that we thought it was worth sharing with you guys," he told BBC News. The colour is what the camera saw. Apart from the process of blending the individual frames, the only modification made was to brighten the image slightly. Pictures are deliberately acquired underexposed so as not to saturate any bright regions in the field of view. Rock targetThe full-resolution frames are currently held in the camera memory, but at 4MB per shot it will take some time to get them all back on Earth. Curiosity has two Mastcams. The one that took this paannama has a focal length of 34mm. The other camera has a 100mm telephoto lens. The two can be used together to make stereo pictures. The Mastcams will be paramount in helping to plan Curiosity's science mission, choosing where to drive and which rock targets to investigate. Researchers want eventually to take the robot to the base of Mount Sharp. Evidence from satellite photos has suggested there are sediments exposed at the base of the 5.5km-high peak that were laid down in the presence of abundant water. The rover will use its instruments to try to understand what kind of environments existed at the time of the rocks' formation, and whether there were periods in Mars history when any type of microbial life could have thrived. CONTINUE READING: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19201742
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Post by auntym on Aug 11, 2012 15:13:12 GMT -6
www.ufodigest.com/ Did Curiosity Catch UFO or Orbital Debris Crash on Mars?[/color] By Dirk Vander Ploeg August 11, 2012 These before-and-after images show a plume of dust, left, that disappeared. NASA thinks a camera aboard Curiosity caught the rocket stage crash... Publisher's Note: A few days back, one of Curiosity's cameras caught what appeared to be a crash landing of some sort on the horizon. A mysteirous plume of dust obscured the event and now NASA is claiming the crash was of its rocket-powered backpack. But was it? Publisher's Note: A few days back, one of Curiosity's cameras caught what appeared to be a crash landing of some sort on the horizon. A mysteirous plume of dust obscured the event and now NASA is claiming the crash was of its rocket-powered backpack. But was it? Mystery solved on Mars rover's UFO Space enthusiasts have been abuzz for days over whether the Mars rover Curiosity captured an extraterrestrial crash. On Friday, NASA declared the mystery solved. Seconds after the car-size rover parked its six wheels in an ancient crater, a tiny camera under the chassis snapped a picture revealing a smudge on the horizon. The feature disappeared in a later photo. Was it dirt on the camera lens or a spinning dust devil? It turned out Curiosity spotted the aftermath of its rocket-powered backpack crash-landing in the distance. It "was an amazing coincidence that we were able to catch this impact," said engineer Steve Sell of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $US2.5 billion ($A2.37 billion) mission. The nuclear-powered rover landed in Gale Crater near the equator on Sunday night to study whether environmental conditions could have favoured microbes. Its ultimate target is a mountain looming from the crater floor where mineral signatures of water have been spied. Curiosity performed a novel, complex landing routine. In the final seconds, the rocket stage hovered as cables delicately lowered the rover to the ground. After landing, it cut the cords and the rocket stage flew out of the way, crashing 610 metres from the landing site. Speeding at 161km/h, the high-speed impact kicked up a plume of dust - which showed up in Curiosity's field of view. Curiosity was in the right place at the right time and facing the right direction, Sell said. Photo credit: NASA CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/did-curiosity-catch-ufo-or-orbital-debris-crash-mars
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Post by auntym on Aug 11, 2012 15:23:54 GMT -6
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/08/curiosity-rover-to-get-a-brain-transplant-for-upcoming-science-tasks.htmlAugust 10, 2012 Curiosity Rover to Get a "Brain Transplant" for Upcoming Science Tasks[/color] NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars getting a "brain transplant," which will occur during a series of steps Aug. 10 through Aug. 13. NASA/JPL will download a new version of software on both of the rover's redundant main computers. This software for Mars surface operations was uploaded to the rover's memory during the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's flight from Earth. "We designed the mission from the start to be able to upgrade the software as needed for different phases of the mission," said Ben Cichy of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., chief software engineer for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. "The flight software version Curiosity currently is using was really focused on landing the vehicle. It includes many capabilities we just don't need any more. It gives us basic capabilities for operating the rover on the surface, but we have planned all along to switch over after landing to a version of flight software that is really optimized for surface operations." A key capability in the new version is image processing to check for obstacles. This allows for longer drives by giving the rover more autonomy to identify and avoid potential hazards and drive along a safe path the rover identifies for itself. Other new capabilities facilitate use of the tools at the end of the rover's robotic arm. While Curiosity is completing the software transition, the mission's science team is continuing to analyze images the rover has taken of its surroundings inside Gale Crater. Researchers are discussing which features in the scene to investigate after a few weeks of initial checkouts and observations to assess equipment on the rover and characteristics of the landing site. CONTINUE READING: www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/08/curiosity-rover-to-get-a-brain-transplant-for-upcoming-science-tasks.html
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Post by auntym on Aug 14, 2012 12:34:45 GMT -6
PaulTheAlien Just had a tweet from the @marscuriosity Team at @nasa. It said "Our next mission will be to probe URANUS". Very funny guys.
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Post by auntym on Aug 18, 2012 14:05:54 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Aug 18, 2012 14:20:46 GMT -6
August 17, 2012 Interactive Paannama: The big picture from MarsCLICK TO INTERACT WITH CURIOSITY & SEE PAannaMA VIEW OF MARS place your arrow on picture and click & drag... www.latimes.com/news/local/photography/la-sci-bw-mars-curiosity-pano,0,5525118.htmlstory This 360-degree paannama from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the area within Gale Crater on Mars. The rover's deck is seen below. The rover's "head," or mast, where the navigation cameras that took this picture are located, casts a shadow seen near the center. The rim of Gale Crater is in the distance, and the base of Mt. Sharp is beyond the rover's shadow.
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Post by auntym on Aug 24, 2012 10:55:28 GMT -6
UFO in mars - curiosity video Published on Aug 23, 2012 by weigreg This video was posted on the website of NASA www.nasa.gov. few minutes later was removed. In this video you can see an unidentified object in front of the lens going through "curiosity". Este video fue publicado en la pagina de la NASA www.nasa.gov. pocos minutos después fue eliminado. en éste video se puede ver un objeto no identificado atravezando frente al lente de "curiosity".
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Post by skywalker on Aug 24, 2012 20:58:36 GMT -6
Interesting if it is real. Could somebody have modified the video? Stupid hoaxers are getting sneakier all the time.
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Post by auntym on Aug 26, 2012 12:07:16 GMT -6
4 UFOs hover near Curiosity Rover - Aug 2012 [/color]
Published on Aug 26, 2012 by isthisodd
Image Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Four UFOs hovering below horizon level.
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Post by auntym on Sept 2, 2012 13:55:14 GMT -6
trap.it/# NASA Mars rover Curiosity's dirty little secret: Nuclear waste (Commentary)Published: Sunday, September 02, 2012, By GEOFF BRUMFIEL LONDON — I’m as happy as anyone that the Curiosity rover got to Mars; it’s hard not to root for all those NASA geeks in their blue polo shirts. But before you get all American and apple pie about the achievement, there’s something you should know: Curiosity runs on plutonium from a Soviet-era nuclear weapons plant. Take a look at the back of Curiosity. Other rovers have solar panels, but Curiosity doesn’t. Instead, there’s a little white thing that looks cute, almost like a tail. Inside are eight boxes filled with pellets of nuclear fuel. This stuff is hot, so hot that the boxes glow bright red, and will glow for years to come. Think of it as nuclear charcoal. The fuel will keep the rover toasty on cold Martian nights and supply it with electricity. It’s a neat trick, and one that NASA has used before. Since the 1960s, the United States has been launching nuclear-powered spacecraft. The first were military satellites. That worked swell, except that when the mission ended, you had a radioactive pile of junk orbiting the planet. And every now and then, one would fail to launch or fall back to Earth. That was bad for PR. These days, NASA puts nuclear fuel on things that aren’t coming back. The Voyager missions that left the solar system carried it, as did the first Martian missions, the Viking landers. It’s particularly useful when you’re going far from the sun — places where solar panels don’t work. The particular kind of fuel inside Curiosity is called plutonium-238. It’s the perfect stuff for the job: It’s extremely radioactive, so it gives off plenty of heat, but the type of radioactive particles released by plutonium-238 can’t even penetrate a sheet of paper. As long as you don’t touch it or swallow it, plutonium-238 is safe, and with a half-life of 87.7 years, it decays slowly enough that a fairly small supply can power a spacecraft for a decade or more. But plutonium-238 isn’t easy to come by. It doesn’t exist in nature, and only two places in the world have made serious quantities of it. Both made something else: nuclear warheads. You see, plutonium-238 is really a byproduct of the process for making another kind of plutonium, known as isotope 239. Plutonium-239 is the real terror: It takes just a couple of pounds of the stuff to make a bomb as powerful as many kilotons of TNT. Almost all modern warheads in the U.S. arsenal use plutoniuim-239 as a trigger. When it explodes, it sets off an even larger thermonuclear device capable of flattening a midsized city (say, Boulder, Colo., or Ann Arbor, Mich.). Russian warheads have even higher yields. CONTINUE READING: t.co/uGMDAeon
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Post by swamprat on Sept 2, 2012 16:07:17 GMT -6
I agree with some of the comments below the article. What's his point?? The stuff wasn't made for the rovers. It was made to provide weapons to keep us free. NASA and the rover programs did not pollute the rivers; that was already done. I think it is making good use of a nasty material!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2012 4:05:15 GMT -6
Tonight was a very interesting night for observing through the telescope. I first turned it towards the moon under low power. Under low magnification (26)x it displayed a wide field of view of 2.7 * degrees. No sooner than I had put the scope into focus a satellite flew by, then immediately following another one. Within 20 minutes I clearly counted 27 . One of them was extremely odd looking,,,it had wings ! Strange looking wings ! It wasn't a bird. I have been talking with other amateur astronomers around the world about many subjects, and space debris is one of them. Many astrophotographers have mentioned that they normally take at least 2 or more pics of the same object because of space junk entering the photo, especially when doing long exposures. It is a common thing now to see at least one satellite enter the field of view when observing about any object up there. The sky is polluted . What I am getting at is what goes up must come down. Some of these do not even make it up to orbit to begin with which contaminate our planet fully fueled with radioactivity and tons of highly toxic chemicals . I believe there is a good reason why NASA is investing bookoo buck$ into Mars. There have been pics sent back of things that appear to be fossils of micro-organisms Imo. Curiosity just sent one back the other day which they fired several laser shots at and closeby I questioned some of these. They looked like fossils.Not counting at least 2 meteorites that fell to Earth which have possibly showed life may have existed on Mars. Let's say that they're not fossils and no life has been there yet. Or maybe life has and continues to lay dormant. If it ever even did finally develop life it would be very fragile. Radiation and chemicals alter genetics. Someday we may end up sending one of these probes to a place that has an advanced civilization if we haven't already done so. What are they going to think of our irradiated greetings ? The irony in all of this is that radiation has kept us alive in some ways. Because of the damage previously done by the earthquake and tsunami at unit 4, it would only take one bad earthquake of the right magnitude in Fukushima to be our demise,,,, or an upset leader who possesses nukes. I would like to see all of the radioactive particles sent out somewhere to a place such as a deep lunar crater but it would take hundreds of rockets to remove it all. It would only take one of those rockets full of this stuff to malfunction and not make it to orbit,,, NASA displayed incredible technology when they landed Curiosity, I challenge them and all other countries involved in the space race to find a even better technology in the future to keep these rovers , probes, and satellites fueled for a long duration without using radiation.
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Post by auntym on Sept 13, 2012 13:21:30 GMT -6
www.ghosttheory.com/2012/09/13/another-curiosity-ufo-sigtingAnother Curiosity UFO SightingSubmitted by Henry Paterson September 13, 2012 What qualifies as a UFO seen on another planet? Humans have been sending cameras to other planets for roughly forty years now. Some people believe that some of those cameras have given us new evidence of the unexplained. Bringing that series up to date is the Mars Rover, Curiosity. For a robot it would seem to be getting more attention than a Kardashian some days. Of course it takes a UFO to get us to notice it. Not the first unexplained image to come from Curio’s cameras, here is the newest. Until next week. Now it is likely that since Curiousity is just the latest thing to go viral on the internet, scrutiny of its images is so unwittingly crowd sourced that any anomaly will be spotted and quickly identified as something…um, unidentified. But then Curiosity is on Mars, where pretty much everything we did not put there is unidentified. As to this object being an alien visitor? Or possibly a Martian craft? Mars Curiosity Buzzed By UFO? 2012 HD [/color] Published on Sep 12, 2012 by StephenHannardADGUK Strange object caught by Mars Curiosity, does this confirm that an extraterrestrial presence is indeed observing NASA's exploration of Mars, or is it a martian creature of some kind? Raw image data here: alien-disclosure-group-tv.ning.com/profiles/blogs/curiosity-buzzed-by-... Many thanks to Luis Renato Dueñes Torrelles for spotting this little gem. 4 UFOs Caught By Mars Curiosity? 2012 HD: Two Alien Lifeforms Next To Mount Sharp? 2012 HD: Alien Bio Humanoid Found On Mars? 2012 HD Mars Curiosity Anomalies 2012 HD Weird Anomolies Captured By Mars Curiosity 2012 HD UFOs Observe Mars Curiosity Rover? 2012 HD
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Post by skywalker on Sept 13, 2012 21:24:30 GMT -6
So what is NASA saying about all of this stuff?
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Post by plutronus on Sept 15, 2012 4:13:47 GMT -6
www.ghosttheory.com/2012/09/13/another-curiosity-ufo-sigtingAnother Curiosity UFO SightingSubmitted by Henry Paterson September 13, 2012 What qualifies as a UFO seen on another planet? Humans have been sending cameras to other planets for roughly forty years now. Some people believe that some of those cameras have given us new evidence of the unexplained. Bringing that series up to date is the Mars Rover, Curiosity. For a robot it would seem to be getting more attention than a Kardashian some days. Of course it takes a UFO to get us to notice it. Not the first unexplained image to come from Curio’s cameras, here is the newest. Until next week. ....Curiosity is on Mars, where pretty much everything we did not put there is unidentified. As to this object being an alien visitor? Or possibly a Martian craft? Mars Curiosity Buzzed By UFO? 2012 HD [/color] Published on Sep 12, 2012 by StephenHannardADGUK Strange object caught by Mars Curiosity, does this confirm that an extraterrestrial presence is indeed observing NASA's exploration of Mars, or is it a martian creature of some kind? Raw image data here: alien-disclosure-group-tv.ning.com/profiles/blogs/curiosity-buzzed-by-... Many thanks to Luis Renato Dueñes Torrelles for spotting this little gem. [/quote] Most folks don't typically realize the degree of news censorship, twisting of the facts, out-right lying, that is taking place in American Television. Most Americans are unaware for instance that there are multiple space-stations in orbit around Earth, with only the space-station that the American Powers-That-Be, desire Americans to know about is publicized. For instance, Robert Bigelow has two space-stations in orbit that he constructed. Having developed his own launch vehicles well before the current crop of Gvmnt approved launch vehicles. Bigelow's launch vehicles were low-launch cost, reusable vertical takeoff, from anyplace, such as an airport, as well as vertical landing, such as at an airport or someone's backyard. With the cost of The Space-Shuttle, Robert Bigelow was unable to get launch wavers, because, he believed (very smart guy), that his strategy would embarrass NASA and their heavy iron tax-payer hardware approach. Mr. Bigelow says that 'NASA' stands for, "No Access to Space for Americans". In any case, Mr. Bigelow was unable to acquire from NASA and-or US Gvmnt launch permissions. Same thing happened with SpaceEx, they had to construct their launch facility in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to do their testing. Mr. Bigelow was forced to take his space-stations to China, having paid them to launch his stations into orbit for him. Not a peep about that in the American TV press, although AW&ST magazine did include a one sentence announcement (which I read) of the achievement in 2008. They really pushed the limits of what they were allowed to say, undoubtedly. AW&ST are noted for doing so, it was they that cracked open the canister of lies that NASA/Gvmnt pumped out about the Columbia re-entry disaster. Did you all know that the astronauts knew that there was a problem with the wing (there were e-mails about the situation between astronauts and their family members on the ground)? Why wasn't the 75,000 NASA taxpayer salaried engineers alerted to the problem? Giving the engineering community the chance to save those American Hero's lives from the firey re-entry death they died? I heard that it was because the gvmnt did not want to distract the public from the Iraqi Invasion Plan.
Little or no gvmnt integrity remains since the Masons (quietly) exited power.
Mars is another similar situation, we hear next to nothing in the press about other country's space exploration, TPTB desire the tax-payers to stay focused on terrorism, war, low-frequencies, angry, instead of things that move Humanity forward, things such as the Japanese Martian probes, or Russian, or Chinese, or the French, etc. It would be good for America to get into positive competition.
Then there are those objects being 'sighted', we all know that the gvmnt lies about that stuff, but on Mars, it could be any number of things, including camera artifacts, digital data transmission artifacts, as well as other country's robotic probes (that US News was verboten to tell us about) coming into view exploring the planet, and as well as keeping track of what NASA's Curiosity probe is doing there and-or other natural unknown phenomenon, including alien mecha.
I would not be at all surprised to learn that the US Military also has frontier sensors operating around Mars. We know that the military has frontier sensors, just remember the Clementine, it was RADAR topo-mapping every square foot of the Moon's surface, when it discovered that huge ocean sized chunk of frozen Martian water.
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Post by skywalker on Sept 21, 2012 21:40:07 GMT -6
Check this out. I just found it on facebook. Somebody is claiming that NASA is manipulating some of the images from the Curiosity rover and it looks like they have proof of it. I haven't had a chance to watch the entire video yet but it seems interesting so far.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 10, 2012 21:57:23 GMT -6
Curiosity Finds Shiny ThingThe Curiosity rover was scooping up its first shovel full of Martian soil to be analyzed when somebody on the Mars Curiosity Rover team noticed something that didn't look quite right. Lying there in red Martian dirt was a shiny silver thing. What exactly it is is still uncertain. The team quickly halted the digging operation and zoomed in for a closer look. NASA is waiting to have the images of the thing analyzed before coming to any conclusions but they suspect that it may be a small piece of the rover that may have fallen off. Possibly a screw or some other small thingy. At the moment nobody has any idea what it might be but they are halting all operations until it can be determined what the thing is and whether or not it will effect any future operations or experiments. The last thing NASA would want to do is analyze a scoop full of supposedly pristine Martian soil only to find that it had been contaminated by something from earth. That could cause all kinds of faulty data and would totally ruin the experiment. If it turns out that it is not a piece of the Mars Rover than it might be...well...it might be something pretty interesting indeed. There is not much else it could be unless one of the UFOs flying around up there lost one of its lugnuts. There just aren't supposed to be shiny things lying on the surface of uninhabited planets. Hopefully they will get this little mystery solved quickly. So far the Mars rover has performed flawlessly. Let's hope it continues.
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Post by lois on Oct 18, 2012 17:19:29 GMT -6
That is pretty funny.. ;D Digging up our own junk already.. Wait years down the road and we will have that planet a Debri field. Or did I miss something here.
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Post by auntym on Oct 19, 2012 12:10:18 GMT -6
www.ufodigest.com/article/mars-mysteries-unexplained-discoveries-red-planetOctober 19, 2012 Mars Mysteries: Unexplained Discoveries on the Red Planet![/color] By Diane Tessman Are we too quick to accept the conspiracy theory that photos from the Mars rover are bogus and thus lose our curiosity (no pun intended), thus not keeping a close watch of NASA’s information? Yes, perhaps Curiosity is photographing incredible buildings, objects or life-forms which are top secret and are forbidden for us to see, or possibly (a variation), the Mars rover isn’t even on Mars and it is all a fake scenario. However, perhaps (just perhaps), we are being shown the rover’s actual photos of Mars and perhaps they reveal incredible mysteries just as they are. Regarding the recent conspiracy theory that NASA is using Earth photos but calling them photos from Mars: NASA does use pictures of Earth terrain in an effort to compare it with Mars terrain. It is possible that NASA didn’t purposely mislead us but that somewhere along the line, NASA made honest mistakes or civilian conspiracy theorists got it wrong in not realizing NASA had intentionally used Earth photos for comparison with Mars. (Yes, that does sound a little implausible). Let’s assume Curiosity is actually on Mars taking the pictures which are shown to us, or at least actually taking some of the photos that are shown to us: Take a look at this “shiny object!” Are we sure this shiny object fell off the space craft? This photo was taken on the 65th day of Curiosity’s mission, so certainly even though it goes slowly, the rover is getting away from its own landing area and possible landing debris? Also, other “shiny objects” are mentioned in another photo and NASA says, “Some might be from the space craft landing and others might be native to Mars.” Does that make sense? Here is the NASA statement on the shiny object in the photo above: “Small debris on the ground beside Curiosity: This image from the Mars Hand lens (MAHL) camera on NASA’s rover Curiosity shows a small bright object on the ground beside the rover at the “Rocknest” site. Object is just below the center of the image. It is about half an inch (1.3 centimeters) long. The rover team has assessed this object as debris from the spacecraft possibly from the event of landing on Mars. The image was taken during the mission’s 65th Martian day (October 11, 2012).” CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/mars-mysteries-unexplained-discoveries-red-planet
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Post by skywalker on Oct 19, 2012 13:06:31 GMT -6
I posted something about this when they first discovered the shiny thing but back then they thought it was something that had fallen off the little rover dude. Now it seems they are finding these little shiny things all over the place. Anybody want to guess what they might be? Meteorites? Silver? Diamonds? Prehistoric Martian tooth fillings?
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Post by paulette on Oct 19, 2012 23:59:45 GMT -6
An old trash dump from intergalactic picnickers? Silver isn't likely (IMO) because if there ever had been oxygen, it would be oxidizied and not bright silver (unlike gold that doesn't tarnish or react with air). Diamonds aren't a bad guess - a lot of impacts on Mars - could have made fused diamonds or they just weathered out and laid around with no water to move them anymore, and no one to pick them up.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2012 0:25:46 GMT -6
I dunno but it doesn't look like it belongs..I'd laugh if it was silver..know how fast Mars would be a mining colony?
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