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Looking
at a Bigger World and Universe – Wow!
I have the perfect News Bite for you
today. It is all about the Mars Rover
which is now moving about on the planet Mars.
You need to take a look at this Link – one of
the best that I have seen so far. Rover panorama:
Begin exploring Mars When the page
comes into your view you can look up or down – and in 360 degrees in all
directions around the Rover. You can
also zoom in and out to see the Gale Crater better. What a fantasy trip away from Mother Earth –
small and blue and closer to our Sun.
The wonder of this creation around us simply
stuns my senses. With the help of
Science and the amazing Space program I can see creation in a totally different
way.
Please take a look at this Link as well Mars
Rover:Explore the Red Planet with Nasa’s robot. One click on the planet
Mars – the round ball will make the planet spin and the camera pan in to the
Gale Crater and give you further information about the planet and Crater.
The Gale Crater is 96 miles across. The Rover
is situated at the edge of the Crater and can look at the ‘mountain’ in the
middle. That is Mount Sharp which is 5,500 metres/18,000 feet high… and
apparently was formed when a meteor hit Mars’ surface long ago. (BTW Canada’s
highest mountains are in the Yukon at just over 19,000 feet high.)
The brilliant minds that chose the Gale Crater to
investigate did so because one side of the Crater appears to have some form of
landscaping done by water flow. The Web
Site states the following… quote…
Evidence of water
The north wall
of Gale Crater is criss-crossed by a network of valleys believed to have been
carved by water entering the 150km-wide depression from outside.
This is the
first view of a so-called fluvial system taken from the surface of Mars. Such
networks date from a period of Martian history when liquid water flowed freely
on the surface. Scientists have remarked that Curiosity's surroundings bear a
striking resemblance to the landscape of America's south-west. End quote.
Now as I put this small bit of information
together for myself… I zoom back to my boyhood days.
I lived in Regina, Saskatchewan, the capital
city of the Province. We were located in the southern part of the Province in
the western part of Canada.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is 160 miles north of
Regina. When I was a boy it seemed like a long ways to drive there. But it was not nearly as long as the car ride
to Oak Lake, Manitoba where my aunt and uncle had a farm. That was 240 Miles
east of Regina, near Brandon.
The Gale Crater would fit between Regina and
Saskatoon with a 30 mile space on each side.
And it would cover almost half way to Oak Lake.
That helps my ‘little boy mind’ to grasp what
it is all about. But when my ‘little boy
mind’ tried to imagine anything outside of our home in Regina and the fields
nearby – it simply shut down. The thought couldn’t make it past the field that
was to the East and North of where we lived.
Now at 68 years old with a ‘big boys mind’
and the help of the Internet I have now ‘stood’ on Mars.
The Gale Crater is only one small smudge on the
surface of that giant planet so far away.
There are way more and bigger Craters and huge mountains on Mars’
surface.
The ability to go to Mars, send photos back
from Mars and for me to instantly see whatever I would like to see today – in a
mere seconds… all happened during my short lifespan. To think it all took place in less than 60
short years… and in fact only in the last 40 years… blows my mind!
Today as I surfed the surface of Mars I also
tried out Saturn. Wow! What a beauty.
Now I am able to face another day. The humdrum of living the same old – same old
is pushed aside as I dream about what I read and saw today.
Away back in 1950 I was 6 years old… and just
beginning to walk around outside by myself… to discover the big world out
there. Wow – what a difference a lifetime makes! But the same old back then was also pushed
aside by my imagination that took me to places no one else had ever gone
either.
Ooops – gotta go… another trip is about to
begin – right now and I can’t miss this one!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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References:
Photos of Mars
By the way... Mars appears a lot like Saskatchewan - when I was a boy - areas south of Regina!!!
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