[meteorite-list] NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance

2015-03-24 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4521 NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance Jet Propulsion Laboratory March 24, 2015 There was no tape draped across a finish line, but NASA is celebrating a win. The agency's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed its first

[meteorite-list] Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars

2015-03-24 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4516 Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars Jet Propulsion Laboratory March 24, 2015 A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the

[meteorite-list] NASA Reformats Memory of Longest-Running Mars Rover

2015-03-24 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4517 NASA Reformats Memory of Longest-Running Mars Rover Jet Propulsion Laboratory March 23, 2015 * The rover team reformatted the aging rover's flash memory to restore use of overnight data storage * Opportunity completed inspections of blocky ro

Re: [meteorite-list] Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Safety, or Terrorism Concerns

2015-03-24 Thread Count Deiro via Meteorite-list
Hi Listees and Adam, I agree. None of our urban centers are safe and Mexico can now boast 100,000 dead in the last six years attributed to the murderous regimes of the drug cartels. What is remarkable is that this information is sat on by the main stream media and our politicians. What would w

Re: [meteorite-list] Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Safety, or Terrorism Concerns

2015-03-24 Thread Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
You are correct that many inner city areas in the United States are dangerous. Take Detroit, Michigan for instance where anybody that lives there, who can, is fleeing and houses/businesses can be purchases for $1,000.00 or less. Stockton and Oakland, California made the top ten several years

Re: [meteorite-list] Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Safety, or Terrorism Concerns

2015-03-24 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
As things stand, you face a decidedly higher risk loosing your life in the USA than in Morocco or Tunisia. It is funny that many Americans apparently do not realise that their own country is a lot less safe than many others. Traveling anywhere including just down the street isn't as safe

Re: [meteorite-list] Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Safety or Terrorism Concerns

2015-03-24 Thread Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list
I used to frequent a cafe in Marrakech when I was traveling to morocco every two weeks. That date was bombed a few years and several tourists died. I spent some time at the mall in Kenya that was attacked and nearly 100 people were killed in last year. It is eery knowing that these places where

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 8049 Contributed by: Peter Marmet http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=03/24/2015 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritec