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Mars like I've never seen it before
« on: October 26, 2016, 01:34:01 PM »
I've wasted a lot of time with this but I just can't look away:

http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-gigapixel-panorama-curiosity-solar-days-136-149

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2016, 01:42:45 PM »
And now I'm not going to get any sleep tonight...Thanks Rhino.
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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2016, 03:00:28 PM »
I noticed that the Curiosity rover has no solar panels. So I looked it up. It has a nuclear power generator. No problem with dust build up on solar panels.

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2016, 03:01:59 PM »
wow, did you see the bear?

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2016, 06:53:58 PM »
No, but I did find the Yellow Brick Road..and some Martians Munchkins.

http://youtu.be/1cwCIkKFFR4

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2016, 07:26:10 AM »
wow, did you see the bear?

Does a bear $hit on mars?

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2016, 07:41:25 AM »
Martian bears do.

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2016, 11:15:02 AM »
No, but I did find the Yellow Brick Road..and some Martians Munchkins.

http://youtu.be/1cwCIkKFFR4

Mmmmm, Munchkins

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2016, 11:15:38 AM »
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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2016, 12:46:22 PM »
The thing that I find fascinating is that we'er looking at another world yet if you showed this to someone and didn't tell them what it was they would be like: "wow that's a desolate place, is that Death Valley?"

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2016, 12:53:17 PM »
Same place they filmed the moon landing.

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2016, 01:59:12 PM »
Yep.  If it works, use it again.
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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2016, 05:33:42 PM »
When I see things like this I wonder why in heck are we even thinking of a manned mission there? The robots are discovering everything we would ever need to know about the planet (and more).

I can see going to the moon (again), good reasons to do so, but Mars?

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2016, 05:47:09 PM »
Oh, I don't know Dan....there's a goodly number of folk I'd like to see on a slow boat to Mars.  :)

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2016, 05:49:21 PM »
When I see things like this I wonder why in heck are we even thinking of a manned mission there? The robots are discovering everything we would ever need to know about the planet (and more).

I can see going to the moon (again), good reasons to do so, but Mars?

Dan

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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2016, 10:46:42 PM »
The thing that I find fascinating is that we'er looking at another world yet if you showed this to someone and didn't tell them what it was they would be like: "wow that's a desolate place, is that Death Valley?"

I was thinking exactly the same thing, only difference being in the Karoo in the RSA, not Death Valley USA....
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Re: Mars like I've never seen it before
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2016, 07:07:09 AM »
I was thinking exactly the same thing, only difference being in the Karoo in the RSA, not Death Valley USA....

Except for the blue sky and clouds, Mars looks a lot like the Karoo.