Opportunity M. Rover ([info]opportunitygrrl) wrote,
2004-03-23 14:09:00
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surf's up! (well, it was)

So I found something really cool a while ago but NASA made me promise not to tell anyone!! It was totally hard keeping a secret from all my friends, but I didn't want NASA to get mad at me, so I didn't even put it in a friends-only entry. But now I can tell you what I found!

It turns out that some of those rocks I found actually developed in a shallow salty sea. (Here's some pictures.) I'm actually driving over what used to be a beach! Wish there were some cute space probes here who would take a drive with me!

So not only did I find evidence of water, I found evidence of a sea!! Go me! (How do you like them apples, sis?)

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[info]cpip

March 23 2004, 11:20:12 UTC 8 years ago

Saw in the paper you had a slippery start, hon. Glad to hear you're driving out and about!

[info]jkusters

March 23 2004, 11:21:36 UTC 8 years ago

Here's hoping you find some seashells (or the Martian equivalent)!

JOhn.

[info]annathepiper

March 23 2004, 11:23:26 UTC 8 years ago

Water! On! Mars!

That is just incredibly cool. ^_^

[info]menckles

March 23 2004, 11:26:15 UTC 8 years ago

Point-Counterpoint


POINT:

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we came. We long to return. These aspirations are not, I think, irreverent, although they may trouble whatever gods may be.
--Carl Sagan


COUNTERPOINT:

We shall never cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
--T. S. Eliot


[info]nosebeepbear

March 23 2004, 11:32:49 UTC 8 years ago

Re: Point-Counterpoint

Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel.--S. Herberger

(After the game is before the game.)

[info]boblovesdot

8 years ago

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[info]fritzling

March 23 2004, 11:27:13 UTC 8 years ago

Exceptional!!! Now your worth lots more than your weight in salt!

[info]parke_matru

March 23 2004, 11:28:16 UTC 8 years ago

Congrats on the great find!

[info]radcliffe

March 23 2004, 11:29:38 UTC 8 years ago

Oh that is so great! First breaking the traveling record, and now finding a major discovery! Congratulations!

[info]rmjwell

March 23 2004, 11:31:45 UTC 8 years ago

If you hold up one of the rocks to your sensors, do you hear the ocean?

Congratulations!

[info]loosechanj

March 23 2004, 11:33:14 UTC 8 years ago

I hope you packed a bikini!

Now go find some sea shells!

[info]pbristow

March 23 2004, 13:48:00 UTC 8 years ago

Re: I hope you packed a bikini!

Crab! Go find us a crab. And not those silly "crab stick" things, or we'll know you're faking the evidence! =:o}

[info]hubbletelescope

March 23 2004, 11:33:54 UTC 8 years ago

The NASA headline was "Opportunity hits the beach." Did you remember your suit?

[info]grepmaster

March 23 2004, 16:13:15 UTC 8 years ago

or perhaps

"Opportunity hits the beach". hope you didn't hurt your hand too bad...

[info]jmthane

March 23 2004, 11:38:08 UTC 8 years ago

Making it seem more likely that at one time, Mars was a hospitable environment for living beings not too dissimilar from us in general composition. (Appearance is something else entirely, but in the basic generalities...)

Congrats! Good find! :-D

[info]marzipan_pig

March 23 2004, 11:40:51 UTC 8 years ago

the environment at the time the rocks were forming could have been a salt flat, or playa

a playa! like at burning man! :)

[info]kshandra

March 24 2004, 15:34:38 UTC 8 years ago

d00d! We gotta get tickets for the rovers somehow - I mean, with this year's theme being "Vault of Heaven," they'd be a perfect fit!

[info]dwaggie

March 23 2004, 11:41:18 UTC 8 years ago

Have fun getting out of the crater ;)

[info]soho_sat

March 23 2004, 11:45:40 UTC 8 years ago

Woo-Hoo!

Way to go. I'll bet you knew that as soon as you woke up in the crater... isn't peer review annoying? :)

[info]oldsma

March 23 2004, 12:04:59 UTC 8 years ago

Wow, a beach! This is very exciting. If it gets hot, wear your flip-flops on the sand so you don't burn your wheels. Also remember that alcohol does not help you stay hydrated.

MAO

[info]kightp

March 23 2004, 12:06:01 UTC 8 years ago

Woohoo! Go, grrl!

Maybe those intriguing little spherules are Martian eggs ...

[info]boblovesdot

March 23 2004, 12:26:49 UTC 8 years ago

Martian caviar?

[info]tamnonlinear

March 23 2004, 12:08:03 UTC 8 years ago

Way to go! What a cool find. Now you're a dune buggy.

[info]fuse_sat

March 23 2004, 13:51:08 UTC 8 years ago

Congratulations! You're doing wonderful work.

[info]emerlion

March 23 2004, 14:35:17 UTC 8 years ago

You are famous!

They were talking about you on CBC radio today.

You go, girl!

[info]rdfox

March 23 2004, 15:03:23 UTC 8 years ago

Must say, it was kinda weird hearing Sean O'Keefe refer to you as an "it." Didn't he get the memo about your gender? I mean, jeez!

(And dear god. An example of how my mind works... for some reason, the title of this post made me ponder Opportunity having outfitted herself with hydraulics on all six wheels, tinted glass, a hot pink paint job with green flamework on the sides, "spinner" rims, and a car horn that plays the instrumental from "Low Rider"...)

[info]bibliotrope

March 23 2004, 15:42:20 UTC 8 years ago

Life's a beach on Mars, huh?

A beach! and just in time for Spring Break. (Well, it's spring here; I'm not sure about where you are. But it's the principle of the thing.) Bet you left your bikini at home though. :-(

Seriously: congratulations on a wonderful find! Woohoo!

[info]star_dusting

March 23 2004, 17:14:27 UTC 8 years ago

WOW!

I mean, if I cared about planets or anything I would probably be impressed.

[info]musecalliopeia

March 23 2004, 17:22:33 UTC 8 years ago

Wow. I am *so* proud of you! Go you!

[info]sacred_engine

March 23 2004, 17:35:17 UTC 8 years ago

Hey now you can get to work on that tan!

[info]pathfindress

March 23 2004, 18:53:17 UTC 8 years ago

Wow! You're so lucky! I want to go to the beach -_-;
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