Mars Report 2004-01-04

[M@]

Well, it's pretty cold, but we made it safe and sound. Looking forward to some sliding next week if we can get the rover up and running.

Here's a picture:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0401/spiritpan_f1.jpg
More news here. (http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html)

The Mars Diner: Great food. No atmosphere.

M@

[TheOctopus]

Very, very cool. I'm bummed about Olympus Mons, tho. Although you're working with 16 miles of vert., the average grade is only like 6%.

What kind of turns can you make on dry ice, anyway? I'd think the fluff quotient would be pretty low. I expect a full TR....

[el-bagr]

Do we have any JPLers on board? I'm thinking that a properly prepared nut could take the headwall in this...

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/images/rocknroll-image02_br.jpg

[M@]

The fabric for the airbags was made in New Hampshire actually - wombuack mills or something... so they aren't that far away. That would be quite a movie... hucking the headwall in designed-for-mars airbags. I might just volunteer for that.

M@

[skicdave]

Camera sensors are made in Waterloo Ontario even.

On a related issue: Why You Can't Have a Snowball Fight on Mars (http://www.aspsky.org/mercury/mercury/9801/snowball.html)

[elwood]

That top photo that M@ posted is also in 3d...

Has anyone found a pair of red/blue 3d glasses and checked it out? Woah

[M@]

I checked it w/ red/blue shades and it was ok - not great, but a couple things had some depth.

M@

[M@]

I just reviewed the 3d red/blue image on the wife's computer with the nice big LCD display - and it was much better. I got a bunch of red/blue galsses a while back from some science store becuase the APOD's were in 3d from time to time.

Here's the 3d image from the APOD:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0401/sleepyhollow3d_spirit_1.jpg

M@

[skicdave]

Think we saved our 3D glasses when we watched the latest 'Spy Kids' movie (wahho!), would they work the same for those photos?