Last stops around Victoria, before the Long Trek |
Last stops around Victoria, before the Long Trek |
Sep 27 2008, 10:41 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Let's use this topic for the last stops (Cabo Frio, perhaps?) before Opportunity leave the vicinity of Victoria for good.
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Sep 27 2008, 10:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
This is a guess, but I'm pretty sure we'll stop at Cabo Frio before leaving. Paolo?
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Sep 27 2008, 07:04 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
This is a guess, but I'm pretty sure we'll stop at Cabo Frio before leaving. Paolo? I hope not. Today's plan is somewhat more ambitious. I don't want to jinx it, I have a few more hours to wait. I will keep you posted. Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Sep 27 2008, 07:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
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Sep 27 2008, 07:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Here is a Sol 1661 QTVR (2.1MB), just because the scene is so beautiful.
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Sep 27 2008, 07:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
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Sep 27 2008, 08:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
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Sep 27 2008, 08:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
Enjoy the scenery while it lasts, kids, we're about to start driving across Kansas!
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Sep 27 2008, 09:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
I wonder if "Last stops around Victoria, before the Long Trek" is destined to be a very short thread. This idea crossed my mind at the right moment I opened the thread. Then I said "no way, Cabo Frio is a mandatory stop!", but now after Paolo's comments I'm not sure of anything. Will we see one of those 100m drives today? |
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Sep 27 2008, 09:23 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
That is indeed beautiful, and thank you for the gift, MH.
Inspiring as well, and for those who don't care for poetry, my apologies in advance: Leaving Victoria The horizon has never been featureless and now we must leave the layers of the mysterious past, for our limitations stop us now but only now for all life is short, and we must leave. This alien place, this new home must be seen, must be touched as much as possible and the distant cliffs beckon, there is no resistance Victoria gives us up willingly, for we are strangers still Onward, for as long as we can Onward, through dunes and cold and penetrating frosty dust Onward, past cobbles and meteorites Onward, till the power is gone, and our vision grows dim... Someday we will stand static and alone, but not forever and never now we go onward, and see what must be seen we go now -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Sep 27 2008, 09:30 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10197 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
What is it with all these poets? Well, if they can do it so can I.
There once was a rover called Oppy, Whose aiming once got a bit sloppy. Things got rather gory Inside Purgatory, But now she is driving non-stoppy. Philliam Shakespeare -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Sep 27 2008, 09:37 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
...LOVE it!!!!
(BTW, Phil, still waiting on that damn mascot job to open up for your school...I've switched to even cheaper cigars!!!) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Sep 27 2008, 11:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
4,245,000 bottles of beer on the wall...4,245,000 bottles of beer...
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Sep 28 2008, 12:40 AM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
This idea crossed my mind at the right moment I opened the thread. Then I said "no way, Cabo Frio is a mandatory stop!", but now after Paolo's comments I'm not sure of anything. Will we see one of those 100m drives today? Not really. Almost 153 meters straight south. Don't be alarmed, there will be no imaging today, we'll have to wait one more day to get them. One of the tricks we will probably use during this adventure. Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Sep 28 2008, 04:27 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
there once was a rover, quite clever who was in Victoria forever then one day she popped out and aligned to the south for Squires had said...Endeavour! -------------------- CLA CLL
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