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cc, Really? You could get a signal from the Apollo misisons on your DiY receiver? Wow! "Respect"! I've never heard before that as evidence for the truth of the Moon Missions. Not that I am an unbeliever, but couldn't those signals have been repeated from a mere transceiver soft-landed on t...

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Excellent, geckzilla! To add to your observations, without being able to construct such useful annotated pictures, there are some further markings, top left on the photo, that look exactly as if someone had spattered the globe with streaks of paint from a brush, or spatula. Not that they have, but t...

More pics from the recent flyby at http://ciclops.org//view_media.php?id=17290 This one shows a most puzzling picture. As it appears on the web, the craters appear as mounds, but if you invert it, or 'flip both', they appear as craters. In either case, a material apperas to be coating elevations and...

Geckzilla, A most interesting approach! But not one that convinces me, that the black covers the white. In the picture you reversed, the dark terrain is heavily and sharply edged with craters. The white is featureless, implying that it is more recent and covers the dark. Of course, the lack of featu...

Just the simple physics of motion JohnD. Try to dock a sail boat under sail at a dock on a flowing river and you will understand a more complex concept of motions. :P I know EXACTLY what you mean, cc! If you can't get the jib to go across at the right moment- disaster looms! Fortunately for astrona...

Splendid, dramatic photo!

Having just watched the 'Lord of the Rings' triology again as it was transmitted on terrestrial UK Tv for the first time, this could be the model for Mt.Doom!

John
(I know - it's a story!)

Thank you ial13, Your explanation reminded me of a Larry Niven mantra from the Integral Trees, which goes something like "Down takes you out, out takes you up, up takes you back, back takes you down." I never understood it then. But searching for that lead me to an old thread on BAUT: http...

It's got beyond that, Orin.
Opportunity has completely entered to the crater!

Keep an eye on this website for up to date news, rather than the johnny come lately news desks.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... 0913a.html

John

That's not the scenario that I thought William meant, Andy. To have the Shuttle go off ahead of you and then come around on another orbit, in effect doing one more owrbit that you have, wouldn't you have you be going a LOT slower and LOT further out from the original orbit, or else to wait a very lo...

Thank you, William! But why do they drift back again? Left outside, would the hapless astronaut then drift inwards of the shuttle and back? In other words, they have distorted their own orbit to one more eccentrc than the Shuttles's? Ah! You said 45 minutes. That's half of a 90 minute Shutte orbit (...

All, APOD 16th September 2007 Great picture of an astronaut totally free of the Shuttle and 100meters away. What an experience! But I see that he has moved away 'to the side', not above or below the Shuttle. Would these be 'forbidden directions'? Because; If he moved straight up, his orbit would be ...

OK, cc, I'll take that as a refusual to back up your assertion with evidence. Or an inability to do so. I'm sorry, cc, but this is a scientific website, and if you propose a theory, you must show the evidence and defend your thesis. Just saying you are too busy right now and anyway, a fool can see t...

Looking at something with a human eye notoriously produces such artefacts, as our eyes/brains have developed to see patterns. And while Richard Hoagland may have worked for NASA at one time, he was already describing "Cities on Mars" twenty years ago. This description amply demonstrates th...

brian,
Perhaps you would like to consider the thesis in the post immediately before yours?
John

Well lets just say that they obviously wanted to show off the lineal alignment of the craters, , hmmmmm 8) I think you should demonstrate this lineal alignment, cc. Please post a picture with the lines drawn. And show that it is more than joining the dots in a random scatter. See: http://en.wikiped...

I can't see how this black material can be from secondary impacts, bma. While in the centreof the image, the blackness is to one side of a larger crater, as if drifted, it is dead centre of others to top left of inverted image, and dotted around the interior of the large uppermost crater. Don't look...

The correct, anatomical name for your thumb is 'pollux'. But you call it a thumb. A surgeon would too, though they would use 'pollucis' (of the thumb) of the muscles that move the thumb. It's all in the context, don't you think? In a formal paper, nothing other than 'Scorpius' will do, but unless th...

I've seen a 'reflected' rainbow, without it's primary. The bow was diffuse and distorted, but distinct. It looked as if the moor beyond was smeared with colour. Such reflected bows could be termed 'virtual' as, like an ordinary bow, they are centered on an antisolar point, and are 42 degrees from th...

Good point, CC! It made me go and look for the actual pressures involved, and they are well set out here: http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=184 The highest ever recorded is said to be 0.8psi, 114lbs/ft^2, 100 feet from the aircraft. Biphasic, of course, so high and low. Doesn't seem anyt...

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Disdain? OK, what other artifact would you have sent? Print on gold leaf? How do you provide an alien with a Rosetta Stone to read it? Floppy discs? Those are already obsolete on Earth, and radiation would have blanked them by now, I should think. Same for chip memory. CD-ROM? More complex technolog...

cc, What do you mean? You really have to be clearer than that! What have large hailstones on Earth to do with this? And for an ignorant one, 'FOCLMAO'? But apart from that, I came to ask where are the "towering walls" to Odysseus that the APOD mentions? This crater is very large but is now...

Is that a new picture of the 'entrance' to Victoria Crater? There's nothing new on the Mars Rovers' home page: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/ since the last day of August. John John Try here for up to date daily images http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/ click on the opportunity or sp...

Is that a new picture of the 'entrance' to Victoria Crater?
There's nothing new on the Mars Rovers' home page: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/ since the last day of August.

John