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Opportunity heads uphill after engineers finally pinpoint the origin of the rock that appeared out of nowhere.

Opportunity heads uphill after engineers finally pinpoint the origin of the rock that appeared out of nowhere.

They have now confirmed that the rock was kicked off a larger piece when Opportunity traveled over it.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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10 comments

  • Naomi

    Hi Bob! It’s Naomi from the old days in Brooklyn! I heard you on Coast to Coast on Jan. 29th. Was VERY SURPRIZED! Would like to open a correspondence with you.

  • Naomi

    Please e-mail me back.

  • Cotour

    Attention NASA nerds, I still do not know what this item attached to the ISS is.

    http://youtu.be/8kXBgT-4wjY

    Comments? Reasonable interpretation / explanation? Anyone?

  • Pzatchok

    Is NASA serious?

    Did they actually stop the rover to investigate a pebble?
    On a planet of rocks they stopped to investigate a pebble that might have rolled down hill as they passed by.

    No wonder nothing ever gets done on time.

  • Cotour

    Attention NASA nerds, I still do not know what this item attached to the ISS is.

    http://youtu.be/8kXBgT-4wjY

    Comments? Reasonable interpretation / explanation? Anyone?

  • joe

    Definite delta wing shape, it flies in an atmosphere, not alien.

  • Cotour

    Why would, what I would assume be a top secret something, be hanging around the ISS? There are cameras accessible by the public all over it. And why is it not being commented on or explained by NASA? I have never seen a shape like that on anything being developed, it is unlike anything that I am aware of and it does not reflect standard / established design layouts. Our space stuff is based in basic shapes with some complex curves, this appears to be more organic in design.

    I think that we can all agree that there is something there, there. What is it, who made it and what purpose does it serve?

    I have to assume that this site has a very high percentage of NASA either employees, ex employees or just plain space nerds and an answer should be forth coming. But I can find no relevant comment.

  • joe

    Cotour, how do you know that the video is authentic, to me this looks like a space plane, if it is top secret, its possible no one not in the know would have seen such a vehicle, to me it has a delta wing shape not unlike other such concepts I have seen, and finally the resolution of this object is rather low, unlike other parts of the space station that are in higher resolution.

  • Cotour

    I agree that it could be a hoax, it is very possible given today’s level of technology, but its a pretty good one if it is.

  • Edward

    Of course NASA is serious. Examining the rocks, pebbles, and soil is why we put Curiosity on Mars in the first place. This was an opportunity to examine the underside, the unexposed side, of a rock. After all the expense and effort of getting instruments there, would you really pass up that science?

    Although it can collect soil samples and the powder of holes drilled into rocks, the arm with the APXS and the MAHLI is not intended to turn over rocks for investigation.

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