Word: dig
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Before Spirit can actually start to dig in the Martian sandbox, however, there are a few technical obstacles to overcome. Last week, mission managers discovered a worrisome spike in temperature within the guts of the rover during the Martian daytime, requiring them to periodically power down some instruments to give the machinery brief cooling naps. An electrical surge in the main antenna also caused concern, but so far it appears to have been a harmless hiccup...
...sinking down from above could have caused the dirt to congeal, perhaps leaving salty deposits that help hold it together. The Viking probes investigated similar-looking callused patches back in 1976. Investigators on those missions dubbed the features duracrust. The science team working this trip is eager to dig around in the stuff...
...free peek at what lies below. There appears to be an especially inviting population of small craters to the east and southeast of the rover, providing one more reason for Spirit to head that way when it dismounts. "We've got a capable machine, but we can't dig 20-ft. holes with it," says Squyres. "The way to do that is to look at one of these craters...
...Pike’s highest don. For such a dream, devoting $10,000 for an exploratory study must have seemed cheap to Amorello. The pharaohs had their pyramids; Mitterand, his Chunnel. Amorello might have his magnetically-levitated monorail. As chair, Amorello took over the Big Dig in February 2002, and for nearly two years the rest of the transportation world have looked on with a combination of envy and schadenfreude. But a man of Amorello’s imagination is no more satisfied with that gargantuan project than Caesar was with two-thirds of Gaul. And so he has commissioned...
...It’s a dig at the powers that be—Bush, cops, etc., and it’s basically in the style of the “In Living Color” Saturday Night Live skit. It begins with Batman and Robin finding themselves in a bad sort of neighborhood in a bad sort of alley. There are these two homeless men who grow more and more indignant. Eventually, the homeless men beat up the Dynamic Duo, steal their costumes, and start fighting crime on their own terms...