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Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Ron – Andrew – Ruggero – Bob Fast links to Bios: Andrew – Ron – Timothy – Bob – Keith – Ruggero Over the past several weeks, ever since the Perseverance Rover touched down successful at Jezero Crater on Mars (Feb 18), the Enterprise Mission Team has been discovering one extraordinary thing after another, in the constant stream of data that Percy has been sending back to Earth …. Simultaneously, we have dutifully been reporting these increasingly amazing “finds” to our own world-wide “Other Side of Midnight” audience — spread literally around the Earth. Well, “someone” … INSIDE NASA/JPL … appears to ALSO have been listening …. This week, “out of the blue” (like … literally), Percy — in the midst of the exacting and meticulous process of preparing its historic on-board helicopter for its first flying launch upon another planet! — suddenly sent back […]
Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Andrew – Ron – Ruggero Fast links to Bios: Andrew – Ron – Ruggero – Keith – Leslie OK, what is the REAL Perseverance mission to Jezero Crater? Yes, I know what NASA says– “The Perseverance rover will search for ancient Martian microfossils of long-extinct bacteria … or … at least their organic “biosignatures” (molecular evidence of former biochemistry, likely to be found hidden in the rocks) ….” But, REALLY …. If THAT is Percy’s official “NASA mission,” how come it’s carrying a ground-penetrating RADAR instrument — capable of seeing (roughly …) only 30 feet under the undulating ancient lakebed that Percy’s currently sitting on?; if Jezero was truly such “an ancient lake,” slowly filling with sediments washed down by the obvious ancient river channel visible just to the west of the crater, what underground “geology” could Percy’s little radar possibly find … if […]