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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: March 2009
Tiredness
“I’m Tired” by Robert A. Hall I’ll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. … Continue reading
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Words of Wisdom
Shamelessly reposted from Major Pain’s site… “Author Unknown” Why I like The Marines I like the fact that if you are a self-declared enemy of America, running into a Marine outfit in combat is your worst nightmare… and that your … Continue reading
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Maximus
Which Super Hero are you… Pretty cool quiz and breakout of scoring. You Scored as MaximusAfter his family was murdered by the evil emperor Commodus, the great Roman general Maximus went into hiding to avoid Commodus’s assassins. He became a … Continue reading
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Different Presidents, A Different Corps
Not a good very good comparison. Not just from the audience response but in the way it is handled as well. Particularly note the current POTUS on the conclusion of his remarks vs. the last POTUS at the conclusion. It’s … Continue reading
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A Day in Iraq
As the violence in Iraq has wound down, so has the news coverage. What are you missing? Orphanage receives help from Iraqi community, 2/9 Marines Story and photos by Cpl. Ryan Turnage IMG_1807small SOFIYA, Iraq – Through the winding dirt … Continue reading
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Oh Dear…
Go quick before someone takes this one down… http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html
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Changing Culture
I think we have all heard the stories of our grandparents, and parents, on how life was different when they were growing up, and living their lives. Much of that culture change can be attributed to changing technology. My grandmother … Continue reading
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Fishing Trip
All the time that I have spent fishing in the Northwest and this is the first time that I have ever seen this. Did you check how close that Orca was (repeatedly) to the boat.
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Climate Change
Evidently our friends at the UN are holding a “Global Warming” summit in Copenhagen this week. Ok, that’s good. So, the wonderful folks in the media start an article on this event as: The worst-case scenarios on climate change envisaged … Continue reading
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