Re: Mars Polar Lander

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@www.aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Dec 04 1999 - 17:24:57 MST


On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 hal@finney.org wrote:

> How frustrating! These sites were hours and hours out of date. The JPL
> site at 6 PM Friday had only an update from 1 PM saying that the first
> window had been silent, no mention of the second one even though it
> was three hours old. And the UCLA site had no mention whatsoever of
> mission status.
>

Well Hal, the problem is that you have people in the loop rather than
just machines. I can't offer you pictures of the weather on Mars
but I can offer you pictures of another very interesting spot. Try:
  http://www.washington.edu/

The image is rarely more than a few minutes out of date and on those
very rare clear days you can see a very large volcano. I realize that it
isn't quite as big as Olympus Mons, but what can I do on a planet
that has water erosion to contend with.

Sorry I can offer you more, but I don't do miracles until someone forks
over the nanoassembler controls.

R.



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