SPACE

[axel000]

For those interested,this is what the TEGA oven looks like

[DTB]

I'd personally like to thank all th e fellow geeks on this thread for keeping myself and all those interested in space up to date with such a fantastic array of links and hints.
Thanks guys and girls it is most appreciated.

[Darkflame]

Well, Phoenix has grabbed its first real sample. Looks like it has some interesting material in it. Maybe even some ice perhaps on the right ... and the digging tool looks almost like it is smeared with mud on the left and right

Ice?
Looks like a metalic substance to me there on the right.

Allthough the whole lot looks damp.

[Nixie]

I'd personally like to thank all th e fellow geeks on this thread for keeping myself and all those interested in space up to date with such a fantastic array of links and hints.
Thanks guys and girls it is most appreciated.

Seconded.

I'm well excited for the results of the dirt analysis!

Can

[Darkflame]

Looks like they got a little trouble;
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/06_07_pr.php

The soil might not have gone in the oven correctly, or the beam to check that might be broken.
Not a big deal, but will slow down testing a bit.

[PVB]

Looks like they got a little trouble;
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/06_07_pr.php

The soil might not have gone in the oven correctly, or the beam to check that might be broken.
Not a big deal, but will slow down testing a bit.

June 7, 2008 -- The arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander released a handful of clumpy Martian soil onto a screened opening of a laboratory instrument on the spacecraft Friday, but the instrument did not confirm that any of the sample passed through the screen.

Didn't they think about the samples possibly being large chunks of ice-type material.

[axel000]

Apparently the filter can be vibrated at different frequencies, they are sending up commands to do that next. That should shake some finer particles through. This problem may actually be some good news in disguise, if the soil had been as fine as talc that would mean there is no moisture present. The fact it is clumping and sticking together so much would seem to hint at a very moist / mucky sample.

[axel000]

Some nice STS-124 pix

Discovery docked to ISS, Kibo and storage module in final position (hires wallpaper)


EVA (hires wallpaper)


EVA 2 (hires wallpaper)


ISS During Flip (hires wallpaper)


On the way (hires wallpaper)


Clearing Tower (hires wallpaper)

[teamonkey]

This is a big deal. A really big deal.

[axel000]

This is a big deal. A really big deal.

Amazing stuff, the stuff of sci-fi I've always had this notion that our universe is just this little bubble in a big sea of foam. For all we know we could just be an experiment in some much larger piece of science equipment

[PVB]

This is a big deal. A really big deal.

Amazing stuff, the stuff of sci-fi I've always had this notion that our universe is just this little bubble in a big sea of foam. For all we know we could just be an experiment in some much larger piece of science equipment

[Darkflame]

Darn...does that rule out my oscillating universe hypothesis? :p
(that the universe never was a point, it merely flips between expansion and contraction, and what we see as the big bang as really just the flip-over-point)

This is a big deal. A really big deal.

Amazing stuff, the stuff of sci-fi I've always had this notion that our universe is just this little bubble in a big sea of foam. For all we know we could just be an experiment in some much larger piece of science equipment

Go read the Science of Discworld

[Darkflame]

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2008/04/20080416_kaguya_e.html
interesting moon weirdness.
Seems theres a few random dense patchs.

[Orava]

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2008/04/20080416_kaguya_e.html
interesting moon weirdness.
Seems theres a few random dense patchs.

[Darkflame]