To Mars, by Tortoise

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Tortoise anatomical model

Tortoise anatomical model 08/30/2004 01:50 PM
David Pescovitz: This curious tortoise skeleton, an antique veterinary teaching aid, is on eBay right now. The shell is hinged so that you can see the entire skeleton. I assume it's a model, but it's still quite amazing. Link (Thanks, Michael-Anne!)

China Takes The Tortoise Route For 3G

China Takes The Tortoise Route For 3G 03/30/2005 01:55 AM
The Feature Mar 30 2005 5:03AM GMT

Stolen Tortoise Returned After a Week
(AP)

Stolen Tortoise Returned After a Week
(AP) 08/17/2004 11:12 AM
AP - A pregnant tortoise missing for about a week was returned home unharmed in an Army duffel bag.

120-year-old tortoise adopts baby hippo

120-year-old tortoise adopts baby hippo 01/06/2005 03:09 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Some people in Kenya rescued a dehydrated baby hippo that had been separated from its herd. The released it into an enclosure in a sanctuary, and it ran over to a giant tortoise, and is now "inseparable" say officials.

"'When we released Owen into the enclosure, he lumbered to the tortoise which has a dark gray color similar to grown up hippos,' Sabine Baer, rehabilitation and ecosystems manager at the park, told Reuters."

Link

Tortoise Adopts Stray Hippo at Sanctuary
(Reuters)

Tortoise Adopts Stray Hippo at Sanctuary
(Reuters) 01/06/2005 11:29 AM
Reuters - A 120-year-old giant tortoise living in a Kenyan sanctuary has become inseparable from a baby hippo rescued by game wardens, officials said on Thursday.

Tortoise and stray hippo form unlikely
bond (Reuters)

Tortoise and stray hippo form unlikely
bond (Reuters) 01/06/2005 09:49 AM
Reuters - A 120-year-old giant tortoise living in a Kenyan sanctuary has become inseparable from a baby hippo rescued by game wardens, officials say.

New NASA Mars rovers dwarf 1997's
Sojourner wheeled Mars robot

New NASA Mars rovers dwarf 1997's
Sojourner wheeled Mars robot 01/01/2004 07:31 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 1 2004 5:15PM ET

Tonight: Robots on Mars, hunting for
life on Mars?

Tonight: Robots on Mars, hunting for
life on Mars? 01/03/2004 03:22 PM
Magic may happen this evening. The USA will attempt to safely land a scientific golf cart on Mars at about 8.30pm, California time:

Two NASA (news - web sites) Mars landers -- Spirit and Opportunity -- are speeding toward "sweet spot" touch down sites at different, but scientifically attractive locations on Earth's mysterious neighbor.

The opening act in this $820 million drama to place dual robot geologists on Mars is the landing of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) dubbed Spirit tonight at about 8:35 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). The target: Gusev Crater -- a possible former lake in a giant impact crater on Mars. Primary among the mission's scientific goals is to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars

Link to news story, Link to NASA Mars Rover home page. (Thanks, John!)

Mars Exploration Rover Spirit lands on
Mars

Mars Exploration Rover Spirit lands on
Mars 01/07/2004 02:00 PM
We landed on Mars. The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has captured its first color image of Mars. It is the highest resolution picture ever taken of another planet. Fascinating.

Mars Express Confirms Water on Mars

Mars Express Confirms Water on Mars 01/23/2004 02:20 PM

This mosaic image taken by the
navigation camera on the Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit shows a
panoramic view of the rover on the
surface of Mars

This mosaic image taken by the
navigation camera on the Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit shows a
panoramic view of the rover on the
surface of Mars 01/05/2004 04:57 AM
Mars postcard pictures .. Press release images .. Look, mars

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040104a.html
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What to Eat on the Way to Mars

What to Eat on the Way to Mars 09/20/2004 06:45 AM
Think it's tough figuring out what to whip up for dinner? Try figuring out what to eat during a two-and-half-year trip to Mars and back. Food scientists have some solutions on the plate. By Karen Lurie.

Sure, It May Look Like Mars

Sure, It May Look Like Mars 01/10/2004 10:10 PM
With the Mars rover sending back color postcards, the folks who believe the moon shot was a hoax are once again expressing doubts about the photos' authenticity.

Mars 2.2.3

Mars 2.2.3 01/26/2004 06:30 PM
Java-based network services status monitor

The Right Ear Is From Mars

The Right Ear Is From Mars 09/14/2004 03:46 AM
In a new study, scientists have found that the left and right ears process sound differently.

Mars 2.2.5

Mars 2.2.5 02/13/2004 03:58 PM
A simple, extensible, services-oriented network status monitor.

Get Your Mars On

Get Your Mars On 01/16/2004 11:35 AM
The amazing Get Your War on toon-strip goes to Mars. Link (via Vertical Hold)

GPS on Mars?

GPS on Mars? 07/09/2004 01:11 PM

Macs On Mars

Macs On Mars 01/28/2004 12:28 PM

Silence From Mars

Silence From Mars 12/26/2003 12:25 PM
CBS News Dec 26 2003 10:11AM ET

Mars was once habitable

Mars was once habitable 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Mars exploration rovers briefings...

The Mars Bunny

The Mars Bunny 03/06/2004 01:48 AM
NASA and the Mars Bunny. I first heard about it from our own kokogiak. Then the conspiracy theorists: "They're destroying the evidence!" But now NASA has come out to tell us, "It's probably just airbag material."

To the Moon and on to Mars

To the Moon and on to Mars 01/18/2004 07:05 AM
I have been watching to see how public opinion would fall in President Bush's plan to return to the Moon...

mobl0g from Mars

mobl0g from Mars 01/06/2004 01:01 PM
Oh, this is too freakin' cool. NASA has a moblog from Spirit! (thanks to bOINGbOING for the link)

Update on Mars

Update on Mars 01/24/2004 05:04 PM
Update on NASA's twin Mars rovers and ESA's Mars Express orbiter.

Green Mars

Green Mars 01/23/2004 08:45 PM
More Mars Express images. The German space agency (DLR) has the biggest and fastest loading set of Mars Express images I've seen so far. Among them is one which apparently was not part of the press kit (it hasn't been in any MEX-related report), and is not on the official ESA site: This one. It shows the Spirit rover landing site in Gusev crater -- and the area is covered with a green substance. Olivine or salt, perhaps. It should be highly interesting to get spectral readings. [Note: These images are, to my knowledge, near true color like all other MEX/HRSC photos.]

first images from Mars

first images from Mars 01/05/2004 06:08 AM
images are rolling in .. exploration

space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_images_040104.html
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Rovers on Mars

Rovers on Mars 01/07/2004 05:42 PM

Last night NOVA broadcast MARS Dead or Alive, an examination of the current project to send two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to Mars to search for signs of life. Less than 24 hours after Spirit's successful landing, NOVA showed the jubilant team celebrating the initial success of the mission. The show will be re-broadcast tomorrow night (Tuesday) and will have the latest updates. It's full of interesting information about the rovers, and contains lots of interviews with scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I recommend it if you're at all interested in Mars, MERs (Mars Exploratory Rovers), and space exploration.

Also, Sprit is now sending back color photos of the Martian landscape at Gusev Crater which NASA is supposed to release today. In another week or so, Spirit should begin its exploration of the surface (driving around, collecting samples, taking pictures, etc.) and sending back even more cool data! And then on January 24th, the second rover, Opportunity, is expected to land. So cool! I love the rovers, and I'm so glad to see another one successfully landed. For more information, here's NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission website. And just for kicks, here's a Mars rover family photo, showing the new rover and its predecessor, a spare from the 1997 Pathfinder mission. The new rovers are so much bigger!

Dons on Mars

Dons on Mars 01/09/2004 09:56 PM

Nova Spivack say Humans Should Intentionally Seed Life on Mars.  Great.  Next we'll see Save Mars Activists storming NASA.  Ahem.  Is it too late to donate my DNA?  What would a civilization be without at least one copy of me?

Exploring Mars

Exploring Mars 01/10/2004 08:27 AM
Exploring Mars

NASA: Mars Exploration Rover Mission
http://marsrovers.na sa.gov/home/index.html
NASA Land Rover a Success on Mars
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1580717.html
Mars Photos Tempt Scientists With Vast Areas for Exploration
http://ww w.nytimes.com/2004/01/08/science/08MARS.html
Geology of Mars
http://www.lukew.com/marsgeo/
Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Water and Life on Mars?
http://www.dmns.org/mars/
Discoveryschool.com: Destination Mars
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/destinat ionmars/index.html
BBCi Space: Mars Guide
http:// www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/portals/beagle.shtml

NASA has blasted into the new year by not only landing a robotic vehicle (the Rover Spirit) on the surface of Mars, but also by transmitting the best photographs ever captured of the red planet. With that, Spirit is now preparing to meander about the surface of Mars and collect specimens of rock and soil -- the return of which is anxiously awaited by scientists worldwide. Spirit landed and made its first transmissions to earth earlier this week. And, as was planned by NASA researchers, Sprit had landed almost directly in what looks to be an impact crater, now nicknamed Sleepy Hollow. Researchers are excited to explore that area and the many other craters and rock debris located there. While the planet appears to be quite desolate, Spirit will soon be joined by its twin, Opportunity. Opportunity is expected to land next week on another part of the planet before beginning its own exploration.

The first site takes visitors to NASA's official Mars exploration site. Located here is all sorts of information on the mission's purpose, a timeline of events, updated photographs sent by Spirit, press releases, and resources for teachers and students. The two news sites offer reviews of the mission. The first is a detailed site from NPR.org and provides visitors with several stories that have been dedicated to the mission. The second of these is a review of the photos of Mars sent from Spirit. The fourth site is dedicated to the geology of Mars. This site, from Albert T. Hsui at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is a great reference for delving into the details of Mars geology (as was known pre-January 2004). The next site is from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and provides a great description of the search for water (or the past presence of it) on Mars. Discoveryschool.com offers the next site which provides a great collection of teaching resources for educators wishing to bring Mars into the their classrooms. The final site, from BBCi, totes itself as containing "everything you need to know about Mars exploration." And, it lives up to its claim pretty well. This site offers a different perspective from the NASA mission by offering a look into the European Space Agency's Express Mission and the subsequent landing of the ESA version of the Spirit and Opportunity, the Beagle II. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

Be Careful What You Look for on Mars

Be Careful What You Look for on Mars 01/10/2004 10:10 PM
Even if just one Martian were to come to light during the exploration of Mars, its discovery would suggest that we are not alone in the universe.

One-Way Ticket to Mars?

One-Way Ticket to Mars? 01/16/2004 01:02 PM
ahogue writes "Paul Davies, who has written several very accessible books on physics and cosmology, proposes an interesting way to get a manned mission to Mars ...

Mars with Maestro

Mars with Maestro 01/04/2004 09:36 AM
Mars with Maestro
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/03/1733231
http://mars.telascience.org

The Maestro Team writes "NASA has released Maestro, a public version of the primary software tool used by scientists to operate the Mars Exploration Rovers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Anyone can download Maestro for free from mars.telascience.organd use it to follow along with the rovers' progress during the mission. You can use Maestro to view pictures from Mars in 2D and 3D and create simplified rover activity plans. During the mission, updates will be released for Maestro containing the latest images from Mars."

But Is It Licensed for Mars?

But Is It Licensed for Mars? 01/17/2004 11:07 PM
Tropos's equipment tested by NASA as an idea for manned Mars missions: Next thing you know, there will be a Mars Communications Commission (MCC) insisting that a single newspaper and television station could provide all the news on the Red Planet. Mesh wireless equipment makes sense for the terrain and goals of the mission. Will the low pressures affect signal transmission? And then there's hardening against radiation and temperature. I guess we have 20 to 40 years to figure it all out....

Mars Colours

Mars Colours 01/19/2004 11:47 AM
NASA is not altering Mars colours It's much less exciting than a conspiracy theory, admittedly.

Mars: Anybody home?

Mars: Anybody home? 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
I find it inspiring. KARL J. MOGEL is ecstatic, because the almighty Google has finally found his website at ktkgalaxy.net/forb/mind. ...

What To Wear On Mars

What To Wear On Mars 05/23/2004 09:21 AM

Life on Mars? Could Be, But How Will
They Tell?

Life on Mars? Could Be, But How Will
They Tell? 03/28/2005 11:20 PM
The ingredients for life are present on Mars, but if life exists, how will we find it? One way may be Earth-based simulations.

Mars Rovers Are Almost There!

Mars Rovers Are Almost There! 12/03/2003 01:45 AM
Space.com has an article reminding us that the Mars rover teams are getting ready for the soon arrival of the rovers to the cold Red planet. Basically the ESA rover will get there first around Christmas, and then the Nasa's rover Spirit should arrive around January 3rd, and then Nasa's rover Opportunity will arrive around January 24th. Nasa scientists hope there won't be any gusts of wind or a big hard rock to bust a robot gut on. Everyone says they're ready for the landings so let's hope everything's A-OK. Japan's Mars probe may not make it. It's unlikely, but if it does survive, the Nozomi (translated hope) rover will arrive around December 14th.
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