RE: [Utah-astronomy] Fossils found on Mars!
I have no idea what y'all are looking at - all I see is some remote corner of Area 51. True to its nature, the government has cropped the jet contrails from the top of the frame. -----Original Message----- From: Josephine Grahn [mailto:bsi@xmission.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:16 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Fossils found on Mars! Brent, You missed the really important one! Halfway down the picture, on the extreme left, is a partially buried alien, with human characteristics, including it's personality. The upper part of it's skull is showing, and slightly to the left, it's hand bones are exposed. giving a classic gesture,,, apparently more universally known than we thought.... Jo Grahn At 10:58 AM 1/6/2004 -0800, you wrote:
Go to the following URL and enlarge the photo as much as possible.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040106a/PIA04995.jpg
In the lower left hand corner there is a fossil of a fish and a mollusk shell.
Brent (With tongue planted firmly in cheek)
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You can distinctly see a car on a road in the distance, between the two hobbits... --- Kim Hyatt <khyatt@smithlayton.com> wrote:
I have no idea what y'all are looking at - all I see is some remote corner of Area 51. True to its nature, the government has cropped the jet contrails from the top of the frame.
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Hi all, The really strange thing from today's release of the high-resolution color photo is the MUD! Or something much like it. It shows up at the lower right and, a bit less prominently, on the lower left. The scientists interviewed had no idea what it was. These gunky dark cohesive impressions were caused when the airbags retracted, and the patterns are exactly like mud. One guess is that while no water is around to make mud, some peculiar mineral might have mud-like cohesion. In that case, I think the rover could be in deep trouble when it starts trundling around. It may not get much more than a foot or two from the lander, if this gunk clomps to the wheels and it gets stuck. But I expect that even in such a case, the instruments could analyze the stuff and we'd learn much about Mars that we didn't know. I too had my eyes nearly pop when I saw the "skull" or turtle shell thing in the first set of photos, then decided it was an optical illusion and just an "ordinary" Mars rock. Best wishes, Joe
--- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
One guess is that while no water is around to make mud,
Joe, who told you there was no water around? You have been misinformed! There are seasonal water-ice frosts on Mars all the time. Just look at old Viking & Pathfinder fotos. Plenty of water for mud-making. Some of these frosts last for months. There just doesn't seem to be enough water to account for the "flow" channels & other large features. But cohesion of solid particles doesn't require liquid. Recall how the moon dust "clumped up" and compressed under the astronauts' boots just like we expect damp earth to do. As I recall, it surprised Gene Shoemaker at the time. To be sure, NASA should equip the next rover with "Monster Mudder" tires & a 10" lift kit! C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
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