Sorry for the dearth of Mars-related posts. I missed this morning's press briefing so I can't even offer you that. I'm pretty busy with work so I haven't had a lot of time for even reading Mars news myself.
Since I'm sucking as a source for information lately, be sure to check out some of these other great weblogs.
From Behind the Wall of Sleep has this informative update on the rovers.
periapsis.org collected up all of the Opportunity wake-up calls and shares them with us.
Martian Soil covers lots of recent MER news, including this blue-sky sunset on Mars.
Mars Rover Blog has a good piece on the RAT grinding wheel profile.
SpaceFlight Now continues its solid and consistent reporting on the MER missions.
Axon Chisel still has one of the best Mars resource links pages around -- bonus points for the firefox banner :-)
update: Sorry about the bad link to SpaceFlight Now. It's fixed.
Posted by asa at February 26, 2004 10:10 PMHere is some fixed code for you to fix the messed up SpaceFlight Now link
Posted by: Dave on February 27, 2004 06:19 AMThanks for the link.
With all the Mozilla work, have you had a chance to breathe yet?
Posted by: Daniel Morris on February 27, 2004 02:31 PMAsk Asa question:
What are these? Did the martians forget a doughnut when they left?
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/spirit_m054.html
Posted by: Marc Randolph on February 28, 2004 06:19 AMMarc, both the Mossabuer Spectrometer and the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer instruments are placed directly on the soil being measured. This fine-grained sand is easily compressed what you're seeing is a Microscopic Imager photograph of an area (about 31 mm across) that had been compressed by one of these instruments.
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on February 28, 2004 03:14 PMAsa, you mean "3.1 cm," or equivalently, "31 mm" for the size of the MI, right? (You'll have to excuse me, my engineering side just can't seem to let it slide :-)
Posted by: Patrick O'Leary on February 29, 2004 01:45 PMPatrick, yep. I sure did mean 31 mm. Thanks for the correction.
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on February 29, 2004 06:00 PM