GoSox05 Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 TWSS - Town Water Supply and Sanitation. Duh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigruss Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 03:00 PM) TWSS - Town Water Supply and Sanitation. Duh! Come join the Toilet Party Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danman31 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 02:03 PM) Damn you LPL for not including a scalebar and forcing me to do math. That image covers about a kilometer in width, if I've read LPL's scale bar correctly. So everything's a few hundred meters apart. Oh wow. I didn't read up too much on this, but it sounded like they would be further apart. That's not far at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 08:01 PM) Oh wow. I didn't read up too much on this, but it sounded like they would be further apart. That's not far at all. The skycrane wasn't going to fall that far away, it was right above the rover when it cut loose, and it just needed to get a little to the side. I am kinda surprised the others are so close, but remember how thin Mars's atmosphere is...there's no stron air current to deflect anything, the heat shield came down on a line at 1000 kph and the chute/shell came down at 200 kph, so not a lot of chance to change direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2HH Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Mo' betta' images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 07:42 PM) Mo' betta' images. Those are creepy as hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2nd_city_saint787 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Excuse my ignorance but what exactly is the point of this, I've always wondered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 04:47 PM) Excuse my ignorance but what exactly is the point of this, I've always wondered. The overarching goal of the Mars program is to understand whether Mars once hosted life. The fact that Mars had liquid water on its surface for a substantial time (established beyond any reasonable doubt by the last 2 rovers) shows that you have the most important ingredient, liquid water, in abundance. This mission is effectively an organic chemistry laboratory. It landed in a place with evidence for both the presence of water and changes in the amount/composition of the water over time. Looking at the rocks here will hopefully answer questions about how much water there was, how long it was there, and what kind of interactions it had with the rocks. If the goal is to understand Mars's potential for life, it's in a very good spot. The next step following this, if it ever happens, is hopefully sample return...which has been a goal for the Mars program for decades. The sample you want to bring back is the one that holds the evidence of life, if it was there, and thus you need to have some idea of what rock to go to if you want to find that evidence. MSL should hopefully tell us that. Either way, its going to rewrite everything we know about the martian surface other than "There once was liquid water". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 03:47 PM) Excuse my ignorance but what exactly is the point of this, I've always wondered. They want to know if a Walmart can be sustained Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 By the way, would be more than happy to type more geology details here if anyone would really like them. Trying to keep answers as jargon-free as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 (edited) QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 02:56 PM) Those are creepy as hell. It's all fake. This is actually a remote desert location in New Mexico. I see no red planet. Edit: And science agrees with me! http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/hea...4c85_story.html (I don't really believe this btw). Edited August 8, 2012 by Jenksismybitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 9, 2012 Author Share Posted August 9, 2012 If I had to suffer, so do all of you.; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 (edited) Two things: 1) Sad it's not in color. 2) Should have attached seeds to it, plant near water. LET IT PLANT LIFE TO BUILD OXYGEN. Edited August 9, 2012 by Quinarvy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 9, 2012 Author Share Posted August 9, 2012 QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 09:31 PM) Two things: 1) Sad it's not in color. 2) Should have attached seeds to it, plant near water. LET IT PLANT LIFE TO BUILD OXYGEN. There will be plenty of color images. If you could find liquid water to plant next to...you'd be quite famous. You'd also have totally overturned thermodynamics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 08:35 PM) There will be plenty of color images. If you could find liquid water to plant next to...you'd be quite famous. You'd also have totally overturned thermodynamics. Ok, I need a rocket, some pop-tarts, and a battery powered heater. (The whole plant seeds thing was quite facetious. I know they want to find out if it can support life, most likely so they could terraform it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Man, I now am stuck thinking about how cool it'd be to have a terraformed Mars. Sad it won't happen in my lifetime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 9, 2012 Author Share Posted August 9, 2012 QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 09:37 PM) Ok, I need a rocket, some pop-tarts, and a battery powered heater. (The whole plant seeds thing was quite facetious. I know they want to find out if it can support life, most likely so they could terraform it) You would need to increase the atmospheric pressure substantially. The surface cannot currently support life. At some point in the past, Mars had a denser atmosphere. There is a possibilit of supporting life underground, but deep into the rocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 08:47 PM) You would need to increase the atmospheric pressure substantially. The surface cannot currently support life. At some point in the past, Mars had a denser atmosphere. There is a possibilit of supporting life underground, but deep into the rocks. Stop using geological knowledge to crush my dreams. I'm currently in Wiki-freefall because I looked up Terraforming...then Terraforming of Mars...then Colonization of Mars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev211 Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 08:50 PM) Stop using geological knowledge to crush my dreams. I'm currently in Wiki-freefall because I looked up Terraforming...then Terraforming of Mars...then Colonization of Mars. and three hours from now youll end up on the wiki article for iphone having no idea how you got there. Hate those stupid wiki sessions where you just keep clicking and clicking and end up on something that isn't even close to what you started with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 The Mars sunrise was an extremely cool picture. I cant link it at work because i saw it on twitter, but Im sure Balta will have it up in .00002 nanoseconds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilMonkey Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Did any of you hear the quote from Sheila Jackson Lee regarding thr landing? Since the control center is in her district they apparently often have her there during important things. She asked them if it was landing near where our astronauts planted the American flag........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 That 'joke' is at least four years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2nd_city_saint787 Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 This is all very intriguing to me now, thanks for the info shirtless Tim Tebow. From what I've read this thing is not going very far correct? Just millimeters at a time right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 So I saw a mars sunrise pic but it was in color. I thought all the pics were black and white? Was that one fake? I don't know where I found it anymore...get off my lawn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 It could have been colorized Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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