New Rover - Old Rover

[nomadguy]

With a new rover on the way, check out what has been detected in the past few weeks with the current rovers,
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http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity.html
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_p2773.html

[Cjay]

The new rover is a fancy remote-controlled nuclear-powered "car" with fancy sensors and inspector gadget arm - but how the hell did it cost $2.5 billion? Makes me wonder... how much of that got syphoned off for black-ops?

Mars Rover Curiosity: NASA Prepares For Launch Of Mars Science Laboratory (PHOTOS, VIDEO)


The day after Thanksgiving, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), NASA's car-sized, nuclear-powered rover called Curiosity, will blast off for a nine-month journey to the Red Planet.

When it lands next August, after traveling 354 million-miles, the MSL will spend nearly two years analyzing rock samples and exploring the Martian surface for signs that microbial life may have once existed.

"This is a Mars scientist's dream machine," Ashwin Vasavada, MSL deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said, according to AFP. "This is the most capable scientific explorer we have ever sent out...We are super excited."


Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/mars-rover-curiosity-nasa_n_1097949.html


http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/197337/slide_197337_478588_large.jpg?1321539928

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/197337/slide_197337_478603_large.jpg?1321539928


Every big kid (including me) will want one in their Christmas stocking. :car:

[nomadguy]

I wonder if ET type beings enjoy us sending nuclear technology into space.

[nomadguy]

some more photos collected from the older rovers,
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[nomadguy]

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[Lord Sidious]

The new rover is a fancy remote-controlled nuclear-powered "car" with fancy sensors and inspector gadget arm - but how the hell did it cost $2.5 billion? Makes me wonder... how much of that got syphoned off for black-ops?

Mars Rover Curiosity: NASA Prepares For Launch Of Mars Science Laboratory (PHOTOS, VIDEO)


The day after Thanksgiving, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), NASA's car-sized, nuclear-powered rover called Curiosity, will blast off for a nine-month journey to the Red Planet.

When it lands next August, after traveling 354 million-miles, the MSL will spend nearly two years analyzing rock samples and exploring the Martian surface for signs that microbial life may have once existed.

"This is a Mars scientist's dream machine," Ashwin Vasavada, MSL deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said, according to AFP. "This is the most capable scientific explorer we have ever sent out...We are super excited."


Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/mars-rover-curiosity-nasa_n_1097949.html


http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/197337/slide_197337_478588_large.jpg?1321539928

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/197337/slide_197337_478603_large.jpg?1321539928


Every big kid (including me) will want one in their Christmas stocking. :car:

Excellent observation about black ops budgets.

[nomadguy]

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[nomadguy]

not conclusive but hmm...
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[nomadguy]

With a new rover on the way, check out what has been detected in the past few weeks with the current rovers,
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=11575
"Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity has found slivers of a bright material that looks very much like it is gypsum (calcium sulphate)."

""This stuff formed right here. There was a fracture in the rock, water flowed through it, gypsum was precipitated from the water. End of story. There's no ambiguity."

Prof Squyres was giving an update on the rover mission here at the 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the largest annual gathering of Earth and planetary scientists." - http://www.agu.org/meetings/


http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity.html
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_p2773.html

>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16082935
"8 December 2011 Last updated at 08:06 ET - Mars rover Opportunity finds 'most powerful' water clue"