A nice Mars landing

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Curiosity Lands on Mars:
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Like its mission, the landing site of Curiosity is a primary focus. John Grotzinger, project manager of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, said; "In the image, we are looking to the northwest. What you see on the horizon is the rim of Gale Crater. In the foreground, you can see a gravel field. The question is, where does this gravel come from? It is the first of what will be many scientific questions to come from our new home on Mars."

Other mineral deposits, however, might become a greater interest.

Mar's Impact Crater: The Largest in Solar System Sparks Intense Scientific Interest

One of the many missions of this survey is to study important reflective and refractive areas with a diverse potential for new types of communications.

Shocked quartz is actually a structurally-altered form of quartz created by a sudden application or a nuclear pulse or extremely high physical pressure, coupled with a massive release of heat. These areas are highly reflective and can serve a variety of purposes.

Shortly after the first atomic bombs were tested in the 1940's, American scientists discovered that, underneath the heat-fused silica glass that lined the bomb crater was a layer of quartz sand that looked different when viewed under a microscope than did "normal" quartz. Small parallel lines that intersect other parallel lines criss-crossed the face of the sand grains. These intersecting lines give the impression of fractures in the quartz, but X-ray diffraction analysis of them revealed that the crystalline lattice was only slightly deformed, not truly fractured. When light and other lower frequencies were passed through the "deformed" crystals they were altered in profound ways.

Scientists subsequently found shocked quartz at other locations around the world and on mars in impact craters formed by meteors. Being highly reflective and refractive, areas like these on distant moons and planets can serve a variety of purposes. At first energies transmitted at these areas were troubling, due to static caused by their refractive properties; but later tracing the static became the key to partially unraveling their mysteries. It is easy to trace more-disruptive type transmissions, like static. Soon, their reflective properties will become incredibly important to a certain group of researchers. Until then, sources of the transmissions and the areas they affect will remain the focus.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. what ever happened to the lunar satellites in eccentric orbits?

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2. One way ticket to Mars

Okay, so this isn't about the recent landing on Mars. But i like the concept of sending humans on a one way trip to Mars. The idea is growing in popularity, and since it is the only way man is going to make it to Mars in my lifetime, I am all for it. Most people are horrified when they first hear the idea, they think it's a suicide mission, but its not, it's a colonization mission. I'd like to hear what others think about the subject.