At the Crater's Rim
- K2_WALL_PUBLISHED_IN: Analysis
- K2_WALL_CREATED_DATE: K2_02AM00_MonAMESTE_January-0500RJanAMEST_0C2
2. Ok, so you've had a good look at "the rock" imaged by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit (MER-A) on sol (Martian day) 66. You have some perspective as to where it sits (next to the rim of Bonneville crater) and what's around it (near a large relatively darkly colored rock and close to a smaller rock with an X on it's end.) You have also…
Welcome to Bonneville
- K2_WALL_PUBLISHED_IN: Analysis
- K2_WALL_CREATED_DATE: K2_02AM00_SunAMESTE_January-0500RJanAMEST_0C2
1. Conventional wisdom suggests that present day Mars is a barren and desolate world incapable of supporting even the simplest forms of life. This is a notion which the composite panoramic photograph above does nothing to dispel. In keeping with that assumption, robotic missions sent to the red planet…
An analyst born 53 days before NASA. A midwesterner now living in the southeast.