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Mars and Water: Major Announcement Tuesday!
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[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20707-2004Mar1.html[/url]
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"NASA plans to announce "significant findings" about the history of water on Mars discovered by its Opportunity rover, which has been studying rocks and soil for evidence that the Red Planet was once a wetter place that could have been hospitable to life.
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The findings were to be released Tuesday during a press conference at National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington."
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"NASA plans to announce "significant findings" about the history of water on Mars discovered by its Opportunity rover, which has been studying rocks and soil for evidence that the Red Planet was once a wetter place that could have been hospitable to life.
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The findings were to be released Tuesday during a press conference at National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington."
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prolly more like 15 hours I'd say
03.01.04 - Mars-Rover Opportunity Press Briefing
Significant findings from Mars will be announced at a press briefing at 2 p.m. EST, Tuesday, March 2, at NASA Headquarters.
[url=http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040301.html]Meteorite impact tests with bowling ball[/url] :D
40% of outcrop is some form of salt...and that is all probably preciptate! Most of it is sulfur salts. Water was possibly as salty as the dead sea! In order to form that ammount of salt in the rocks!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[url]http://marsrover.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/20040302a.html[/url]
i anticipate some interesting times ahead!
[B]Yar! Thar been water there! [/B][/QUOTE]
I don't know why, but Futurama's "Whalers on the Moon" song just came into my head...
(har har... I crack me up.)
...It would be cool to dig up an old photo containing green Mars and Green earth...
...of course thinking about it, Earth and Mars would not both be visible, so not as cool as I thought, but I wanted to share it with you :D
Maybe it's purple water?
We have Red Mars and Blue and Brown Earth presently. Look at the pictures from space.
What would be best is photos of Blue and Brown Mars :) :)
[B]...of course thinking about it, Earth and Mars would not both be visible, so not as cool as I thought, but I wanted to share it with you :D [/B][/QUOTE]
How do you mean both not visible? :confused: :)
If you took the same situation (close approach) and looked almost straight down the line between them so one was right beside the other, you'd still probably be unable to get detail on both in a single frame because to get the detail on the farther one would require the closer one to be too big for the frame (unless you had some ultra-wide FOV or something I guess).
Alternatively, it's possible that because it's late and I'm tired that I've screwed up my geometry. :)
The small fov and the huge distance between you and the target object just might do it.