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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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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Friday Quiz Time
Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test… Pure Nerd 52 % Nerd, 30% Geek, 9% Dork For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some … Continue reading
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New Skills
Old skills in a modern fight. You don’t always have a Humvee nearby. Pfc. Mike J. Parks, a mortarman with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division goes over how to evenly distribute weight onto a mule. … Continue reading
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Reputations
Typically, reputations are built on historical actions. The Marine Corps has a reputation has the finest fighting force on this planet. As a result there are always those who ask us to validate our reputation on a regular basis. When … Continue reading
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Mindset
Life is about your mindset. If you are not mentally prepared to succeed you will not. I ran across the below list, and while I was chuckling over much of it (you may have seen some of it before) I … Continue reading
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Too Much Time
Someone has too much time on their hands. But, I am glad that they do – this is quite funny (if you are into Trek and Python).
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Valour IT – 3
Life has intruded… I have had no postings recently. Not even a comic. Time to fix that. VALOUR IT – forget that next six pack and toss a couple of bucks in the coffers. We need to pick up the … Continue reading
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Friday Quiz Time
Your result for The Would You Have Been a Nazi Test… The Resistance Achtung! You are 38% brainwashworthy, 32% antitolerant, and 57% blindly patriotic Welcome to the Resistance (Der Widerstand)! You believe in freedom, justice, equality, and your country, and … Continue reading
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Your result for Test Your Ideal Role in a Rock Band… Lead Guitarist 5 Talent, 6 Energy and 2 Charisma! What is there to say? Half the world’s population desperately wants to be you and the other half desperately wants … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Part Duex
I plum forgot about the annual Go Daddy salute to our Corps… Happy 233nd Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!
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