PASADENA, Calif. -- Scientists are closing in on what could be a major discovery for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) program. What? Drill a rock?

NASA’s Opportunity rover appears to have hit a scientific jackpot sitting in a crater at the Meridiani Planum on Mars. They are so utterly dumb, they don't even know who and what caused the crater. Expectations are running high here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that the spacecraft should be able to deliver on the Holy Grail of Mars research: Where’s the water and could life have ever existed on the Red Planet? Dumbos, dumbos, Dumbos. Not only does life exist on Mars, the same life created it -- the Super intelligent Beings, the SIBs. Why can't you extremely ignorants ever begin to understand that.

This "postcard" from the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view of the martian landscape southwest of the rover. The image was taken in the late martian afternoon at Meridiani Planum on Mars, where Opportunity landed at approximately 9:05 p.m. PST on Saturday, Jan. 24. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell. We will show and explain that image later for NAZI NASA and their so-called scientists associates never will be able to.

This sweeping look at the unusual rock outcropping near the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was captured by the rover's left panoramic camera. Scientists believe the layered rocks are either volcanic ash deposits, or sediments laid down by wind or water. Wrong, wrong, wrong O'dumb ones. Just like on most other planets, those layers were laid down by the SIBs in their never ending effort of increasing the mass and size of their particular planet. Look at Pluto as an example, O'dumb ones. It has been posted here many years. Why are you so extraordinarily dumb you can't understand anything that matters about the Universe. Opportunity landed at Meridiani Planum, Mars on January 24 at 9:05 p.m. PST. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell

Image: The interior of a crater surrounding the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at Meridiani Planum on Mars can be seen in this color image from the rover's panoramic camera. This is the darkest landing site ever visited by a spacecraft on Mars. The rim of the crater is approximately 10 meters (32 feet) from the rover. The crater is estimated to be 20 meters (65 feet) in diameter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell

Opportunity Lands on Mars Opportunity Closes in on the Red Planet Red Planet Rovers: Complete Coverage In front of the Opportunity rover is just that -- opportunity to discover a new Mars, one unlike any seen before by previous landers. We did not have to land on Mars to obtain far more true and revealing information about Mars, who created it, when, how, etc. than NAZI NASA and their rovers, or anything else you may throw at Mars in the future, will ever learn about Mars. Just look, read and learn about it right herein.

Images from Opportunity were displayed today at an early morning press briefing. A sweeping look at the unusual rock outcropping near Opportunity was captured by the rover's panoramic camera. Those pictures show layered rocks. But are they the result of either volcanic ash deposits or sediments laid down by wind or water? Neither, O'dumb ones, Do your best to try to figure out who and what caused those layers. Can you put 2 and 2 together to make 4. Let's see you do it. LATER, 9 February 2004: They still are far too dumb to catch on and probably never will.

Intriguing outcrop. Meridiani Planum is rife with deposits of a mineral called crystalline hematite, which usually forms in the presence of liquid water. Thanks to the robot, scientists have the tool mix to examine on-the-spot surface layers rich in hematite and an underlying geological feature of light-colored layered rock. The small crater in which the robot rover now rests appears to have exposures of both, with soil that could be the hematite unit and an exposed outcropping of the lighter rock layer. Speculation that such an outcrop could be limestone would give scientists the eureka moment they’ve been looking for -- clear evidence of water, and with water comes the prospect for biology. DUMB, DUMB, DUMB. Try to get the fact that LIFE DOES NOT HAVE TO HAVE WATER TO EXIST, O'So Very Dumb Ones. Have you idiots now finally given up on the Big Bang as the answer to all your questions about the Universe. If so, looks like we are making a little progress with you. But, extremely foolishly, you still have water on the brain. There is an abundance of intelligent, capable life on Mars but, now get this straight once and for all Dumbos of all Dumbos, THEY DON'T NEED WATER.

Tell-tale inspection. Opportunity has tested the three scientific sensing instruments on its robotic arm that will be used for up-close examination of rocks and soil: the microscopic imager, the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer for determining what elements are present, and a Mössbauer spectrometer for identifying iron-containing minerals. All are in perfect health. Great. but it is axiomatic that regardless of the special tools you brainless ones have, you will still misinterpret and not comprehend what you see, hear, smell and feel and still won't be able to grasp the reality of the Universe.

But the hardware that could offer the first tell-tale inspection of hematite and the outcrop’s composition is the Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer, or Mini-TES.This instrument sees infrared radiation emitted by objects. It can be used from where Opportunity now rests on the lander deck. That device can determine from afar the mineral composition of martian surface features, permitting scientists to study select rocks and soil patches in detail. This just might do the trick to get you brainless ones to begin to Understand at least to some degree what the Universe is all about. That's what the SIBs and we are hoping for and the reason the Mars SIBs are allowing you to visit their planet. When you do start to brighten up -- that'll be the day -- the SIBs and Slaughter Engineering expect a very big World wide apology from all of you.

Intense debate. Mini-TES data acquisition will begin tomorrow, said Steve Squyres, MER Principal Investigator from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Release of what that instrument finds will take a few days, he said at an early morning press briefing today here at JPL. Steve, get ready for your apology. The layered outcrop in view of Opportunity has already prompted intense debate. If you had any inkling what it's all about, there would be no necessity for a debate.

"If volcanic, all bets are off for liquid water," at the site, said Andrew Knoll, MER Science Team Member from Harvard University. "If sedimentary, then I think you need liquid water. I wouldn’t think these are wind-borne deposits. It says nothing, necessarily, about the duration of that water," he added. Andy, you have been at those smart pills again. Take many more. Whether there has been persistent water at Meridiani Planum remains to be seen, Knoll said. "But certainly what we see in front of us today makes no strong claims for long-standing persistence of water," he added. Bravo, Knoll.

"We have high hopes that acquiring Mini-TES data on the outcrop is going to help us in revealing what the material is," Squyres said. The best Mini-TES data will come from the device being placed much closer to the outcrop, during the heat of the day, he told SPACE.com . "We’re probably going to get tantalizing hints from a distance. But the beauty of it is that we can go there. We can drive to this outcrop and we’re going to beat on it with everything we’ve got," Squyres said.

Step-by-step agenda. Following its January 24 landing, Opportunity’s checkout has certified health of the rover, as well as its suite of scientific instruments. Engineers are going through a methodical, step-by-step agenda of readying the rover to wheel itself straight off its lander deck. But due to the problems with the Spirit -- half a world away sitting on the opposite side of Mars -- it may be slow going in driving Opportunity.

Steady progress is being made in getting Opportunity’s wheels "down and dirty," said Jim Erickson, JPL’s Opportunity Mission Manager. "We’re going to get off the lander when it’s time to get off the lander," he said. A glitch in a heater unit apparently within one joint of the Opportunity’s robotic arm is causing a bit of a problem, having a mind of its own, Erickson said. "But, overall, I’m very happy with the rover’s condition," he told SPACE.com . Great care is being exercised in first understanding the problem that crippled the Spirit rover, with lessons learned being applied to Opportunity’s egress and operations at Meridiani Planum.

Spectacular landscape. "We're looking out across a pretty spectacular landscape," said Jim Bell of Cornell University, lead scientist for the panoramic cameras on Spirit and Opportunity. "It's going to be a wonderful area for geologists to explore with the rover," he said at a press briefing shortly after Opportunity landed. The color view shows dark soil that brightened where it was compacted by the rolling spacecraft, and an outcropping of bedrock on the inside slope of the 66-foot (20-meter) crater in which the rover sits. Still don't know what caused that crater do you? With the instruments on the rover and just the rocks and soil within the small crater, Opportunity should allow scientists to determine which of several theories about the region's past environment is right, said Doug Ming, rover science team member from NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston during an earlier press briefing. Those theories include that the hematite may have formed in a long-lasting lake or in a volcanic environment, he said. Wrong, Ming.

On the lookout for astrobiology. Astrobiology research at Meridiani Planum is also possible, said Joy Crisp, MER project scientist. Hydrothermal activity found within this region could mean an environment existed that was favorable for life, she told SPACE.com . "Life does form in extreme environments here on the Earth. But it’s easier to envision life getting started in a place where it was more favorable," she added. Joy, you are just guessing, a trademark for you so-called scientists, and you are guessing so very wrongly. Mars is not only favorable for life, IT'S THERE RIGHT NOW, JOY, AND THEY CREATED MARS.

Ray Arvidson, Deputy Principal Investigator from Washington University in St. Louis, said the hematite and other minerals found at Meridiani Planum may offer exciting clues as to past life on Mars. Ray, how can you possibly understand "past life on Mars" when you can't even comprehend current life on Mars -- which by the way, are one and the same, Mars SIBs. "If we can pin down either there was hot water or low temperature percolating through this stuff, and we can demonstrate this through the minerals in association with the hematite…then the potential for astrobiology goes way up," Arvidson concluded. Too idiotic for us to touch.

THERE YOU HAVE IT. IN SPITE OF OUR OVER 5 YEARS OF EFFORTS, THESE DUMB BUNNIES JUST CAN'T SEEM TO GET IT. HOWEVER, LOOKS LIKE WE MAY HAVE MADE JUST A LITTLE PROGRESS, THEY DIDN'T EVEN MENTION THEIR LONG TIME BLANKIE, THE BIG BANG. NOW IF WE COULD JUST GET THEM OFF THEIR WATER BOTTLE. DO GROW UP, NAZI NASA.

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