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12-27-2012, 06:09 PM
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ˇNo Pasarán!
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Curiosity evidently brought its own supply of skunk. Now sitting up there at Grandma's House, listening to dub reggae, livin' the life.
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12-27-2012, 06:13 PM
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Great! All my tax dollars and Curiosity gets to spend Christmas cackling and rolling a blunt!
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12-27-2012, 06:31 PM
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ˇNo Pasarán!
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This is on C.'s iPod as it sets there smiling out at the vast expanses of a quiet red planet, fourth stone from the sun.
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12-27-2012, 06:33 PM
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I forgot about that. 
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12-27-2012, 08:41 PM
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Excellent choice.
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12-29-2012, 12:08 PM
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Mars Curiosity Rover takes no prisoners as it runs over Martian Man Dog. Not photo shopped.
From NASA
http://www.space.com/19057-mars-rove...ait-photo.html
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12-29-2012, 08:19 PM
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I find this era of robot-exploration so interesting, I see no reason why we need to send human beings to inhospitable places such as Mars (or any of the other planets in our solar system).
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12-30-2012, 07:00 AM
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That's like a see what ya want to see photo. JMO
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01-28-2013, 10:18 PM
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Thawing 'Dry Ice' Drives Groovy Action on Mars
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MR...o20130124.html
"Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures the springtime thaw of seasonal carbon dioxide ice on Mars."
"Transient grooves form on dunes when gas trapped under the ice blanket finds an escape point and whooshes out, carrying out sand with it. The expelled sand forms dark fans or streaks on top of the ice layer at first, but this evidence disappears with the seasonal ice, and summer winds erase most of the grooves in the dunes before the next winter. The grooves are smaller features than the gullies that earlier research linked to carbon-dioxide sublimation on steeper dune slopes."
"It's an amazingly dynamic process," said Candice Hansen of the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson. She is lead author of the first of the three new reports. "We had this old paradigm that all the action on Mars was billions of years ago. Thanks to the ability to monitor changes with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, one of the new paradigms is that Mars has many active processes today."
Much more at link, along with video.
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03-12-2013, 03:33 PM
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@MarsCuriosity
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I was sent to Mars to find evidence of past habitable environments. Achievement unlocked! [info & images] http://t.co/2dtUS982Lm
March 12, 2013 6:30 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2861505.html
Life On Mars Evidence? NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Essential Ingredients In Ancient Rock Sample
The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble
Posted: 03/12/2013 1:55 pm EDT
At a press conference Tuesday, scientists revealed NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered signs that ancient Mars had the essential elements necessary for supporting life.
A rock sample analyzed by Curiosity in February contained sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and carbon, critical building blocks for a living organism. An ancient streambed, analyzed in September, also contained minerals likely to have formed in the presence of "relatively fresh water," according to a written statement from NASA.
"We have characterized a very ancient, but strangely new 'gray Mars' where conditions once were favorable for life," said John Grotzinger, Mars Science Laboratory project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., in the statement. "Curiosity is on a mission of discovery and exploration, and as a team we feel there are many more exciting discoveries ahead of us in the months and years to come."
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