Opportunity still coming up trumps on Mars 7 years on

[Topper]

[h=3]"Slam Dunk" Sign of Ancient Water on Mars[/h]Dec 8, 2011: NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water near the rim of Endeavour Crater. The discovery was presented yesterday at the American Geophysical Union's conference in San Francisco.

"This tells a slam-dunk story that water flowed through underground fractures in the rock," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for Opportunity. "This stuff is a fairly pure chemical deposit that formed in place right where we see it.[SUP]1[/SUP] It's the kind of thing that makes geologists jump out of their chairs."


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[Channel Hopper]

My money is on fly-tippers dumping plasterboard.

 

[rolfw]

LOL, I'm with CH on that.;)

 

[Topper]

Would love to agree with you both but I have never come across plaster board of a diameter greater than 1.5cm so that theory does not hold water unlike the Mars polar regions, there again it all depends upon the size of ones thumb according to NASA, well I have heard of horses and hands as a definitive measure but never plasterboard and thumbs.

 

[Terryl]

If they find gold or oil we will be there in 5 years, then there will be a KFC and a Mc Donald's on every dune in 10..

 

[Lazarus]

.................. and all without a shot being fired :-righton

 

[rolfw]

Would love to agree with you both but I have never come across plaster board of a diameter greater than 1.5cm/QUOTE]

French builders, they use plaster blocks.

 

[sonnetpete]

French builders, they use plaster blocks.

This sort of thing?

_http://www.bricodepot.fr/alencon-arconnay/node/470285

Don't think there's a Brico Depot on Mars yet.......

 

[Llew]

Opportunity trundles its last.

R.I.P Oppy

Nasa confirms Mars rover Opportunity is dead

 

[PaulR]

Indeed. Fantastic achievements from waaaaay past its design brief.

 

[Topper]

Opportunity trundles its last.

R.I.P Oppy

Nasa confirms Mars rover Opportunity is dead

Sad to hear but will never be forgotten R.I.P. Opportunity, we will send a repair team in 2040 with a new set of batteries and solar cells

 

[Channel Hopper]

All it required in the design brief were windscreen wipers.

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