Starship Asterisk*

:D Yes, our little hero, Spirit, has done some marvelous work as has its sister, Opportunity. But I was saddened to hear from JPL that Spirit's scramble for winter sun has been bogged down now that it must drag a broken foot. :cry: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0603/paigepan_spirit.jpg

Yes
Thanks, Gene, for that excellent synopsis of where current research is on the temperature front.

I'm sticking with my kitchen stove though.
Thanks

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l3p3r wrote:you should not use such a flat-out statement

You must never tell others what to do!!

The evidence of global warming is overwhelming. Anyone with proof [photos or measurements] to the contrary is highly encouraged to post such images and citations. But it is not the conversion of ice into seawater and the subsequent rise in sealevel which concerns me the most [though that alone will ...

It looks to me like it is a "rock" that was once covered in ice. The ice is slowly sublimating giving us the two tone view. Yes, though I didn't know whether the rock arrived with its icy covering or whether it was a reminant of a winter ice drift. Though there appear to be ice patches fu...

Very good question. I have never seen a bulletin board on which you can do this but that doesn't mean it can't be done, or hasn't been done in the past by someones hack. Besides asking that here you might try starting a new "Asterisk BB Software" thread over at the Asterisk Cafe forum. It ...

Don't forget that any image you wish to post must have a URL.

There are a number of free image hosts. One being at:

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

Sign up for their free account then upload your image and they will issue a URL for the storage location. Use that between the tags.

Not having studied the ISS in any detail to this point I was surprised to find that as of the next flight, STS-121 with Assembly ULF1.1, the station will look like: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/flights/images/021_ULF1.jpg Six further flights will vastly increase the power generation ...

Frank, if you could please delete [up by the edit button while viewing the post to be deleted] your duplicate post of this topic. [done - makc] Your question about dating planetary items by their craters is answered about a third of the way down the page that Craterchains posted in the February 1, 2...

OK, I'm learning way too much of the bad air in a place I'll never visit. Carbon Dioxide is one of the heaviest gasses and its effect at the surface of Venus is cause for the greater density of the atmosphere. Even so, with the weaker magnetic field offering very little protection from the stronger ...

Here is the schedule of future shuttle flights . You can see that most contain scientific modules for the ISS but others do have further truss and solar array segments. Look at the two interactives [Integrated Truss Structure and Station Explorer] on the right in this NASA page Unfortunately all fut...

You are right in that the caption speaks of getting out and observing the Perseid Shower.
But the animated gif they use to demonstrate a fireball is cited as being of the Leonid.

makc wrote:Here is a great chaos coming over your heads, and beasts shalt have no mercy

Don't stay away too long . - -

It might well be another star satelite. Another star's satellite? That would be akin to walking on the street's of New York City and seeing another pedestrian twice as far from the city center as you and pondering whether that person might not really be a local London pedestrian. No matter the ligh...

deborah wrote:I admire and appreciate the way you are able to keep threads organized instead of all over the place. It's got to take up a lot of your time, thanks for that!

I agree.

Thanks for all the time you put in.

Keep up the great work!

But how did it get its gravity? By existing. It is a force of attraction and exists between all objects in the universe. Newton found that the force of gravity on an object is directly proportional to its mass. The density of Iapetus is 1.1 indicating that it is almost wholly of something akin to w...

For my two cents 8) The solar system formed from a disc of material which had gathered in our local Milky Way region. This disc coalesced further into the sun and planets. You can call anything orbiting the sun a planet, but once it's found not to made of our system's original materials then it's of...

The face that kind of looks like LBJ ! ? ! ? :shock: Yes !! I was thinking an old Black & White TV; but LBJ is right on. For those that think Mars lost it's atmosphere due to a "solar wind", you should check out Venus's magnetic field. Ow!! I read this page and now know much more than...

Cool image with great detail. Gotta add it to my favorites as Martian Terrain under "TOOLS" But what is this face doing in the rim of this crater? Corporate advertising? http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/Mars_topography_from_MOLA/M_-20_-10_60_70.html The aforementioned 2005 Ferbruary 28 ...

I enjoy having your site as my homepage and am offered new, strange, beautiful, thought provoking pictures on a daily basis. But no matter what material I'm absorbing, be it a newscast on the new, Seattle library or a technical manual; an English error jerks me out of my concentration and into the a...

Rotate the camera 90 degrees and try the shot again. That will let us know if the streak originates within or external to your sensor.

Does it appear in any other shots by this sensor?

Would THIS be a possibility? In a word, NO! If such a flash had occured, all other items would have cast slight though noticeable shadows on items further afield. This photo has been thoroughly analyzed here and no such change has been noted in the ambient light intensity from the before and after ...

YEAH !!! An OUTSTANDING job by all involved. The pictures are stunning, much better than a 'boring' ocean! Now I hate to appear totally ignorant, but I am. I'm assuming that all the talk of hydrocarbon compounds is based upon knowledge gained from some spectroscopy? What are the popular theories of ...

As the Official Internet Thread Killer™ That title's as good as any if you MUST have one. :P The debate you address has already been opened and is whether the interminable end of this thread most closely resembles one of those fires which go on seemingly forever in a tire yard, a coal seam, or a dr...

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YEAH, Thanks