Nasa Picks Mars Landing Sites

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 12:15 am

NASA plans to dispatch twin rovers to examine a crater on Mars that might have once held a lake and a region of land covered with a mineral that typically forms in the presence of water, officials said Friday.

In announcing the landing sites for its Mars Exploration Rovers, agency managers said both sites were scientifically compelling.

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 3:59 am

Red Squirrel wrote: NASA plans to dispatch twin rovers to examine a crater on Mars that might have once held a lake and a region of land covered with a mineral that typically forms in the presence of water, officials said Friday.

In announcing the landing sites for its Mars Exploration Rovers, agency managers said both sites were scientifically compelling.

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cool wonder why they want to use my msagents of

roving cowboy and his twin rovin cowboy??

wont be much good on mars without a computer. ha ha ah

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 10:14 am

Cool....

Does anyone remember that nasty little US standard to Metric accident that botched a mission?

Just comes to show you: METRIC RULES!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 3:31 pm

Don't remember it, but I believe it.

US should use metric...

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 3:40 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Don't remember it, but I believe it.

US should use metric...

I don't know when it happened, but I have read about it in a look of places.

They were doing conversions and they got one wrong!

Why in the world would you use two different ones for something that needs to be exact? They should either use all metric or all US standard! Thankfully, I believe NASA uses Metic now....

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Tue May 13, 2003 3:00 am

I am not giving up my american standard. here a foot is a foot not 15 inchs.

and metric just wont work here. most the places use our standard.

but they also know what is to be done in metric also. that mess up in the last mission was done by a person trying to cut corners on the budget and get the cheaper made item more then likely.

since we make usae things cheaper then the metric which is an completely screwed up way of mesureing anyway.

so the rest of the world should start useing USAE.

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