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- Opportunity's Selfie
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: February 2009
sitting on hertz bus in memphi…
sitting on hertz bus in memphis and the lot is 90% empty – where is this recession I keep hearing about?
POTUS Rockstar
So, POTUS is continuing in his rockstar approach to the presidency. Today we find out, that he will wear an earpiece to be fed answers to questions asked during press conferences. There are two things that I am waiting for: … Continue reading
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Alternate Identity
And the verdict is…. Of course I have a tendency to run an alternate version as well… Go to The Hero Factory for your alternate identity today.
Posted in Humor
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Tornados In Memphis
Just landed in Memphis – waiting for baggage on the Tarmac – 5 ship flight of Tornados just ripped by on AB for takeoff. Seriously loud. I’m pretty sure there are none of these in US Inventory – so they … Continue reading
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Just landed in Memphis – waiti…
Just landed in Memphis – waiting for baggage on the Tarmac – 5 ship flight of Tornados just ripped by on AB. Seriously loud.
Women and Guns
It’s interesting to see this come out of Milwaukee.
Posted in Culture, Guns
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Missing
Sorry that I have been missing for so long. Real life caught up to me for a while. Pressure has come down a little but things are still hectic, and professionally difficult. So here is one of those funny stories … Continue reading
Posted in Admin, Humor
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from the crowds here a disney …
from the crowds here a disney world this week I don’t see the impact on spending the place is packed
i’ve been speculating on if we…
i’ve been speculating on if we really are having recession