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Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Timothy – Bob – Ron Fast links to Bios: Timothy – Bob – Ron – Andrew – Keith This week, we have TWO ongoing “Martian mysteries” to grapple with — surrounding the continuing unmanned Perseverance mission. The first: “why” has the pioneering “Ingenuity helicopter flight” — originally rescheduled for last Sunday — now been postponed … TWICE? Yes, I know what the NASA “explanation” is: That a “computer timing error” caused a “safety hold” on the attempt to spin the helicopter’s rotors up to full speed, abruptly cutting short a critical “pre-flight rotor test” before the attempted first flight …. But, is that the REAL explanation for the continuing Ingenuity delays? Or … could it be that JPL suddenly “discovered” that something was “wrong” about the atmosphere of Mars itself … as we’ve been pointing out, week after week …? Mystery number two: […]
Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Holger – Timothy – Ron – Ruggero Fast links to Bios: Holger – Ron – Keith – Andrew – Timothy – Ruggero – What is the REAL color of Mars …? A lot of us have been asking that simple question, since that early morning in July, 1976, as the first COLOR image of Mars was coming in from Viking — and Carl Sagan, one of the Viking Imaging Team members, watching with us., exclaimed: “Why, it looks like Arizona … blue skies and all!; any moment, you expect Yosemite Sam to come wandering in on a burro, stage left ….” That was the LAST time humans on Earth saw LIVE “blue skies” on Mars … until … the landing of the Perseverance rover, February 18th, 2021. Almost half a century ago …. Nine days AFTER Percy’s landing — and after […]