Space Forum / Space Science / April 2005

Have panoramas been done and released, or have I missed them somehow?
"Spirit's focus on sols 408 through 412 was the spectacular panorama
from Larry's Lookout" says nasa.gov - this I want to see.

Why don't the asteroids in the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter
coalesce into a planet if that's how the other planets formed?

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I hope no one minds the commercial, but I've recently placed a copy of
the 1722 first English edition of "Celestial Worlds Discover'd" by
Christian Huygens on eBay. It is item number 6957613677. I thought my
colleagues in the newsgroup may be interested.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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NASA Headquarters, Washington

Cassini Significant Events
for 04/14/05 - 04/20/05
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday from the
Goldstone tracking station. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent

On the Spirit Sol 454 PamCam image
http://www.lyle.org/mars/imagery/2P166676295EFFA9C2P2404R1M1.JPG.html
http://www.lyle.org/mars/imagery/2N166675764EFFA9C2P0894R0M1.JPG.html
Look at the way all the rocks have a surface facing the same

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html
OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Steering Tests After a Long Drive - sol 430-437,
April 18, 2005
The terrain that Opportunity is crossing has been steadily getting more

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
April 14-20, 2005
The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:

When our dear sun will die it will flare up in red gint frying till
earth maybe mars, after that it will  end up in white dwarf, is this
mean that gravity of sun will also die off, then what will happen to
outer planets like saturn jupiter ect, will they wander in to deep

On Sol 433 Opportunity saw these 20cm and 10cm diameter "crater" first
time with its NavCam. On Sol 436 more images were taken, this time in
color with PanCam: http://mars.gh.wh.uni-dortmund.de/mer/opportunity/436/
What do you think it is?

I've just finished reading "the big splat" by Dana Macenzie. In it she says,
that Theia's impact site is impossible to determine given that the Earth
would have contained a magma ocean straight afterwards. Ok, fair enough, but
I think it was the Rev Usher who first suggested that ...

There are different opinions on planetary formation in the period
before solar ignition. In my opinion, evidence exists showing nearly
complete development by the time of the first sunrise. The inner worlds
may have resembled Enceladus in the dawn's early light, frosty and

Presentations from the First Mars Express conference held in February
are available here:
First Mars Express Conference Presentations.
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=36537

http://www.gemini.edu/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=126
Sedna Reveals Pristine Surface in Gemini Near-infrared Spectra
Gemini Observatory
12 April 2005