Rovers Carried 9/11 Tributes to Mars, Says NASA

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What? No Mention of Oslo and Congresswoman Gabby Giffords?


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By IBTimes Staff Reporter | September 11, 2011 6:25 PM EDT

Ten years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, NASA announced that pieces of the World Trade Center building were preserved and sent to Mars as an "interplanetary memorial."

* (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Unive)<br>The piece of metal with the American flag on it in this image of a NASA rover on Mars is made of aluminum recovered from the site of the World Trade Center towers in the weeks after their destruction. The piece serves as a cable guard for the rock abrasion tool on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit as well as a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. An identical piece is on the twin rover, Opportunity.

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The piece of metal with the American flag on it in this image of a NASA rover on Mars is made of aluminum recovered from the site of the World Trade Center towers in the weeks after their destruction. The piece serves as a cable guard for the rock abrasion tool on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit as well as a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. An identical piece is on the twin rover, Opportunity.

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Two aluminum shields were fashioned out metal that was salvaged from remnants of the fallen towers, and then dispatched to the Red Planet in 2003 on NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Rovers, according to a NASA press release. The shields, whcih are each embellished with an American flag, were designed to protect cables on the rovers' rock abrasion tools, also known as RATs.

The tributes were made possible by Stephen Gorevan, the founder and chairman of Honeybee Robotics, which was based less than a mile away from the World Trade Center at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Gorevan said he was riding his bike to work on that morning and was less than six blocks from the Twin Towers when he heard the first plane hit. After making in to the Honeybee office, he said he and his colleagues witnessed the rest of the day's events from the roof of their building.

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Although Gorevan was also a member of the Mars rover science team, he wasn't the one who came up with the idea of sending a 9/11 tribute into space. Steve Kondos, a JPL engineer -- the company building the rovers and managing the project -- working with the Honeybee team suggested using the machines as a memorial to the tragedy.

Through Gorevan's contacts, the team was able to acquire pieces of aluminum from the World Trade Center site on Dec. 1, 2011. The fragments came with a note from former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's office reading, "Here is debris from Tower 1 and Tower 2."

The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on June 10, 2003, followed by Opportunity's launch on July 7. In 2004, Gorevan told a New York Times reporter that the memorial had not been publicized at the time because it was intended to be a "quiet tribute."

"Enough time has passed. We want the families to know," he said.

Since landing on Mars, both rovers have made significant discoveries about wet environments that may have supported microbial life on ancient Mars. Spirit ended communications in 2010, although Opportunity is still active. NASA researchers plan to use the rover's rock abrasion tool on selected targets around a large crater that the machine discovered in August.

Scientists believe the Sept. 11 memorial will likely remain in good condition for million of years, due to the cold, dry environment on the Red Planet.
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I thought removing items from a 'crime scene' was against the law?

Didn't Mayor Giuliani make it an offence as well for any of the debris [that ultimately was being sent to China] being removed by truck to be tampered with in any way?
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Might this kind of closed-loop integration of the NASA and CIA hoaxes be considered unapollogetically blatant? :P
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hoi.polloi wrote:unapollogetically blatant?
How 'bout apollogenetically blatant?
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Gosh, they even have chemtrails on Mars.
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This MMRTG Nuclear Power Source shown below
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will provide electric power to the Curiosity rover! MMRTG uses PbTe/TAGS thermocouples (from Teledyne Energy Systems) and produces 125W electrical power. What DC voltage is coming out of the magic box is not known. :rolleyes: :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Miss ... _Generator

I assume the Curiosity rover will perform well in a Nevada or New Mexico sand pit and pictures and videos of ot will be edited by Hollywood as usual. ^_^
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Image above: A technician oversees the removal of a ventilated cage over the MMRTG that will be used to generate electricity for the MSL on Mars. Photo credit: NASA/Troy Cryder
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/l ... ature.html

"The Department of Energy built for NASA a nuclear-powered electrical system instead, called a multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator, or MMRTG. It has no moving parts, but converts heat from a small core of plutonium into about 110 watts of electricity around-the-clock and all year.

It's the same power source that enables probes to work in deep space on missions such as Galileo's examination of Jupiter, Cassini's unprecedented look Saturn and the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the farthest boundary of the solar system. It was also used on the surface of Mars by the Viking landers in 1976."


Imagine that! NASA uses 2011 some 1976 gadget with no moving parts that magically converts heat into electricity. How is it possible? :rolleyes:
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So the Mars Rover carries a couple of kilogram of Plutonium 238 to generate 125 watt electricity. As US does not produce Plutonium 238 it is purchased from Russia. How convenient. :rolleyes:
Jim Adams, deputy director of planetary science at NASA, says that there's enough of the fuel for NASA missions to around 2022. He says if NASA doesn't get more after that, "then we won't go beyond Mars anymore. We won't be exploring the solar system beyond Mars and the asteroid belt.
Len Dudzinski of NASA has said that American access to Plutonium-238 is the reason why it is the only country to have sent a science mission further than Mars, where solar power drops off rapidly.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238

I thought manned trips to Mars were on schedule by NASA but maybe lack of Plutonium 238 will stop them. :D
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