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NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatically lit view eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars. The rover used the panoramic camera (Pancam) between about 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. local Mars time to record images taken through different filters and combined into this mosaic view. Most of the component images were recorded during the 2,888th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's work on Mars (March 9, 2012). At that time, Opportunity was spending low-solar-energy weeks of the Martian winter at the Greeley Haven outcrop on the Cape York segment of Endeavour's western rim. In order to give the mosaic a rectangular aspect, some small parts of the edges of the mosaic and sky were filled in with parts of an image acquired earlier as part of a 360-degree panorama from the same location. Opportunity has been studying the western rim of Endeavour Crater since arriving there in August 2011. This crater spans 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter, or about the same area as the city of Seattle. This is more than 20 times wider than Victoria Crater, the largest impact crater that Opportunity had previously examined. The interior basin of Endeavour is in the upper half of this view. The mosaic combines about a dozen images taken through Pancam filters centered on wavelengths of 753 nanometers (near infrared), 535 nanometers (green) and 432 nanometers (violet). The view is presented in false color to make some differences between materials easier to see, such as the dark sandy ripples and dunes on the crater's distant floor. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
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Daily Archives: October 17, 2008
WOW Moment
I’ve posted a lot of “stuff” up here on the presidential elections. I’ve thrown economic points, foriegn policy points, advertising, cartoons, all sorts of things. But until today I’ve never really seen the entire campaign boiled down to just a … Continue reading
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Friday Quiz Time
Your result for The Lover Style Profile Test… The Suave Lover 50% partner focus, 67% aggressiveness, 35% adventurousness Based on the results of this test, it is highly likely that: You prefer your romance and love to be traditional rather … Continue reading
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Jolly Rogers
Being a bit of a pirate at heart any title that has a Jolly Roger in tends to get my attention. The good Doc over at Bloodletting set forth on a rant that is titled “Hoist the Jolly Roger and … Continue reading
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The Other Side of Maverick
I love these events when the candidates or office holders get to have some fun. I realize that someone else is still writing the gags but the delivery is always key.
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Financial Reform When it Mattered
In hindsight, most of the political and economic crises in United States history have had a fairly long run up. It has mostly been the actions, or lack of actions, of the national leadership that has allowed the crisis to … Continue reading
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Friday Funny
I’ve seen this before. Perhaps you have too. It is too good not to run here today. http://view.break.com/173365 – Watch more free videos
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