Better than Timex. Mars Rover keeps on ticking

[old Grump]

The arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is seen extended toward a light-toned rock, "Tisdale 2", during the 2,695th Martian day, or "sol", of the rover's work on Mars, in this picture taken by the rover's front hazard-avoidance camera on August 23, 2011. The rock, "Tisdale 2", is about 12 inches (30 cm) tall. The rover used two instruments on the robotic arm, the microscopic imager and the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, to examine Tisdale 2. In this image, the turret at the end of the arm is positioned so that the microscopic imager is facing the rock. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout less

[Gun Toting Lefty]

and we still haven't found the martians?

[raxar]

and we still haven't found the martians?

They're hiding on the side without a camera.

[old Grump]

Who do you think is taking the pictures and keeping the Rovers going long after their expiration date.

[Krupski]

That picture was edited by NASA. Here's the original:

[cevulirn]

[T2K]

Great cartoon. Poor little guy, hang in there!

[old Grump]

Ditto that on the cartoon, never saw that before and it was great.

[1 Patriot-of-many]

I would like to know why they haven't examined the face with their satellites, instead they just tell us we're full of shit....

[old Grump]

I would like to know why they haven't examined the face with their satellites, instead they just tell us we're full of shit....

What face?

[1 Patriot-of-many]

come on Old grump. Seriously?

[old Grump]

I'm pretty sure I know what you are getting at and I hope you aren't being serious. It's already been looked at.

[Warthogg]

It's already been looked at.

Yup. Turned out to be an old depiction of Al Gore.


Wart

[old Grump]

What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa -- landforms common around the American West. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
Cydonia is littered with mesas like the Face, but the others don't look like human heads and they've attracted little popular attention. Garvin and other members of the MGS Science Team have studied them carefully, however, using a laser altimeter called "MOLA" on board Mars Global Surveyor.


http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...01/ast24may_1/

There is your boogeyman face.