Space Forum / Space Science / August 2005

Will either one of the rovers come near any old spacecraft that have landed
on Mars? Viking, that little first rover Mars rover?
thanks

http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2005/physics-astron/lidar.html
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Sandia National Laboratories
August 25, 2005

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/08/22/britain.avebury.ap/index.html
" Some people have claimed to see small figures lit by moonlight moving
among the stones. There are those who claim the mysterious site was built by
aliens and is related to a Martian formation named ...

When I read these complex reports of Cassini's activities, I am
reminded that it is basically very similar to the Galileo craft that
went to Jupiter and spent some years there. But, even though its
mission was deemed a success, Galileo achieved only a tiny fraction of

-> I also unearthed a well illustrated book with detailed discussions of  
-> this which is well worth reading or re-reading. It is 'The Case for the  
-> Face: Scientists Examine the Evidence for Alien Artefacts on Mars'  
-> edited by Stanley V. McDaniel & Monica Rix Paxson ...

SpaceWeather.com
What's Up in Space -- 16 Aug 2005.
MARTIAN STREAMERS.
http://www.spaceweather.com/index.cgi

An IAU committee is going to come up with a definition of a
planet. Most people talking about it seem to think it will be
based on either size or whether it is pulled into a sphere by
gravity[1] or something like that.

Question:
When was the last time that there were no humans in space?

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
August 11-17, 2005
The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:

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http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/snews/2005/0815_hayabusa.shtml
Hayabusa performed the Star Tracker imaging of Itokawa!
Japan Aeorospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
August 15, 2005

http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/8/wa/SciDetails?ArticleID=11437
UA Team Cheers Launch of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, HiRISE
By Lori Stiles
August 08, 2005

Would anyone remember the scene in 2001: a space odyssey wherein David
Bowman has to basically bust his way back into the spaceship Discovery?
He's not wearing a helmet and he takes about 5 seconds before he starts
closing the powered door and flooding the room he's blown himself ...

Before leaving for summer holiday I record a few items of interest. It
seems that the opposition and in some cases antagonism to the idea that
there may be artefacts on Mars is based on psychology rather than actual
evidence because as soon as the Viking images of an apparent ...