Space Forum / Space Science / January 2004

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Hematite
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
January 23, 2004

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I posted my stereo panorama of the Spirit landing site.  So, slap on
your 3D glasses, subscribe to alt.binaries.pictures.stereo, and take a
look!
NA

I asked this question at sci.space.tech, likely the wrong place.
If something physical or meta-physical happened whereby the Moon's
orbit was suddenly changed to an apogy of just within Earth's
gravitational pull (sorry, don't know the distance) and a perogy of

I am unable to articulate this, but, why go to mars? How does what we're
doing on mars relate to us on earth? And is there any beneficial reasons
why we should spend money on exploring mars? I guess what i'm asking is,
how do the recent probes do us any good and why should we ...

-> The green is plant life
That would be fun!
But it's more likely to be olivine, a type of rock that is formed by
volcanic action, and that doesn't last long, by geological standards,

It takes 9 minutes for signals from Mars to reach earth... OK
One thing struck me when I was watching last Saturday's  landing,
it seems that everyone was reacting as though it was happening real time?
The tones from each EDL sequence and everything?

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Hello all, I recently watched a show on Discovery about supermassive
black holes.  Black holes have always fascinated me and this show what
also very interesting.  I have a question though. Black holes
supposedly have such a strong gravitational pull that nothing can

I was wondering why NASA accepts a shortened life for the Mars Rovers
due to "dust build-up on the solar panels".
Is cleaning them beyond their rocket scientists ?

Guy Webster (818) 354-5011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Donald Savage (202) 358-1547
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

-> Nope.  The industrialized countries have found their own approach to this,
-> involving neither large-scale people exporting nor draconian social
-> controls:  provide effective methods of contraception, and reduce the
-> economic value of children by urbanization, ...

Guy Webster (818) 354-5011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Donald Savage (202) 358-1547
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Well for no particular reason I've produced a light-hearted song about the
MER mission, called "I Want To Be A Mars Explorer".
You can stream or download it from here:
http://ma.fihs.net

Can anyone shed light on the naming system JPL uses for their raw image
filenames?  This is what I have figured out on my own:
Eg: 2 P 126553081 ESF 0200 P 2100 L6 M1 .JPG
2 = MER-2 (Spirit aka MER-A)