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PHOE-SOL097-RC-MF.jpgMelting or Sublimating? - Sol 97 (natural colors; credits: Dr M. Faccin)88 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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PHOE-SOL016-lg_4865.jpgVastitas Borealis - Sol 16 (credits: NASA/Univ. of Arizona)71 visiteIl "tristissimo" (e, onestamente parlando, pure piuttosto scialbo) commento scritto per questo frame nella (di solito eccellente) Rubrica "NASA - Picture of the Day" il giorno 15 Giugno 2008:"What's a good recipe for preparing Martian soil? Start by filling your robot's scoop a bit less than half way. Next, dump your Martian soil into one of your TEGA ovens, being sure to watch out for clumping. Then, slowly increase the temperature to over 1000° Celsius over several days. Keep checking to see when your soil becomes vaporized. Finally, your Martian soil is not ready for eating, but rather sniffing. The above technique is being used by the Phoenix Lander that arrived on Mars 3 weeks ago. Data from the first batch of baked soil should be available in a few days. Pictured above, a circular array of the Phoenix Lander's solar panels are visible on the left, while a scoop partly filled with Martian soil is visible on the right. The robotic Phoenix Lander will spend much of the next 3 months digging, scooping, baking, sniffing, zapping, dissolving, and magnifying bits of Mars to help neighboring Earthlings learn more about the hydrologic and biologic possibilities of the sometimes mysterious red planet".
Una "perla" NASA che, forse, Vi è sfuggita: nella riga finale "...hydrologic and biologic possibilities of the SOMETIMES mysterious Red Planet...". Cioè il Pianeta Rosso è misterioso solo TALVOLTA (sometimes)?!? E se lo è "TALVOLTA", di regola che cos'è? E QUANDO Marte DIVENTA "misterioso"?
D'accordo, noi saremo anche pignoli, ma alla NASA - visto e considerato che queste righe le scrive un "Professional Astronomer" - o sono diventati completamente sibillini oppure sono proprio insipidi e saccenti (ed è difficile dire quale scenario sarebbe il peggiore...).
Nota: tra le fotografie di Marte con colori "taroccati" in favore della banda del giallo/arancio, questa è davvero una delle più brutte e palesemente falsificate.MareKromium
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PHOE-SOL013-lg_3360.jpgEmpty "Scoop" and "Signs" of Humidity? - Sol 13 (Superdefinition + MULTISPECTRUM; credits: Dr M. Faccin & Lunexit)69 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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PHOE-SOL012-lg_3352-B.jpgThe Lander and the Surface - Sol 12 (MULTISPECTRUM; credits: Lunexit)114 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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PHOE-SOL007-lg_1601.jpgThat's a "Scoop"! - Sol 7 (MULTISPECTRUM; credits: Lunexit)62 visiteJune 1, 2008 -- TUCSON, Arizona
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached out and touched the Martian Soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the Lander's experiments.
The lander's Robotic Arm scoop left an impression that resembles a footprint at a place provisionally named Yeti in the King of Hearts target zone, away from the area that eventually will be sampled for evaluation.
The impression in the soil was captured by Phoenix's Stereo Surface Imager. Features and locations around the Phoenix lander are being named for fairy tale and mythological characters.
"This first touch allows us to utilize the Robotic Arm accurately. We are in a good situation for the upcoming sample acquisition and transfer," said David Spencer, Phoenix's surface mission manager from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Phoenix's Robotic Arm Camera also took a number of images of the "Snow Queen" site of what is believed to be exposed ice under the lander.
"What we see in the images is in agreement with the notion that it may be ice, and we suspect we will see the same thing in the digging area", said Uwe Keller, Robotic Arm Camera Lead Scientist from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany.MareKromium
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PHOE-SOL004-lg_955-956-958-2.jpgJust Small Rocks and Pebbles - Sol 4 (Superdefinition + MULTISPECTRUM; credits: Dr G. Barca & Lunexit)64 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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PHOE-SOL007-lg_2274-B.jpgIce on the Lander - Sol 7 (false colors; credits: Dr M. Faccin)63 visiteUn frame bellissimo, un detail mgnf quasi inequivocabile, un grandissimo Lavoro del Dr Faccin. Tutto qui. E scusate se è poco...MareKromium
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