I am somewhat saddened by this image from the 'Opportunity Rover'.
As you may know, I have observed in Australia, in many companies and industries, that those who choose centimetres as their small unit also choose (mostly inadvertently) the slowest possible metrication path, whereas those who choose millimetres as their small unit usually complete metrication smoothly and rapidly.
To my mind, NASA's choice of centimetres for this image suggests that they have also chosen (again perhaps inadvertently) to delay their metrication by many, many years.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Geelong, Australia
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on 25/3/04 11:39 AM, Chimpsarecute at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NASA's Opportunity rover sent back this magnified view of a portion of a Martian rock called "Upper Dells," showing fine layers that are truncated, discordant and at angles to each other. Black and blue lines have been added to the picture, tracing cross-lamination that indicates the sediments forming the rock were laid down in flowing water.
A picture similar to this appeared in the local newspaper this morning. The scale was a little different then the one shown, but it had a scale with 2 cm next to the scale for all to see.
Euric
