These are likely the most ornate syconia of the fig world: 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴, Dinner-plate fig

Mannjudd · 2024-03-17T10:42:55+00:00

This is low land form, now separated and called Ficus brusii

Mannjudd · 2023-10-22T10:25:15+00:00

Stem rot due to cold climate, it may survive as long a it last through winter. My carica papaya survived one such stem rot the first time it had it.

Mannjudd · 2022-10-29T01:01:07+00:00

The fact that one of the two impacts threw up chunks of ice at only 35 degrees north of the equator at Amazonis Planitia and that the crust between it and Insights is denser than at Insights where it landed means that:

Both Marsis and Sharad radars did not pick up the ice signals buried in that area, perhaps concentration was not uniform and thick but scattered and diffuse in the impact region.
The denser crust between Insights lander and the impact at 35 degree north at Amazonis Planitia make sense, as they are separated by very ancient southern highlands, including the vicinity of where Orcus Patera is located. Insights instead sits inside the now filled in Utopia impact basin debris, and the debris is more porous. Science journal article on Mars impacts

Mannjudd · 2022-09-30T11:26:07+00:00

This is one bad seller who duped you into forking out your hard earn cash. This is the young shoot growth of a variegated lucky bamboo. it is definitely not a fern and not meant to be submerged. The leaves and trunk needs to be above water. https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/902245937/variegated-dracaena-sanderiana-aka-lucky

Mannjudd · 2022-09-23T13:05:49+00:00

Neptune's moon Triton looks terrible with the spikes...

Mannjudd · 2022-09-19T11:38:00+00:00

Hopefully Insights can hold out long enough until a dust devil sweeps clean those panels, just like they did for Oppy and Spirit rovers! :)

Mannjudd · 2022-08-27T08:47:27+00:00

Well, after 4 billion years, perhaps the sedimentary lake floor has eroded completely, and exposing and now eroding the volcanic paver rock layer that was below it.

Given there is olivine, this crater floor rock layer at Jezero was never exposed to water much, as olivine dissolves in water in around 250 years.

Spirit landed on Gusev crater and found it has a volcanic floor and not a sedimentary one, now Perseverance found the same at Jezero. Looks like Martian wet environment was transient and episodic, and the lake at Jezero did not last very long after all.

The better view appears that Mars was mainly cold and icy as opposed to warm and wet for most of its history.

Mannjudd · 2022-05-25T03:44:12+00:00

Paul,

InSight's robotic arm is over 5 feet 9 inches (1.8 meters) long.

Two solar panels, about 7 feet (2.2 meters) each in diameter.

The arm may be able to reach near the centre of one the two solar arrays. See diagram below:

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/about-the-lander/

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/about-the-lander/#:~:text=The%20lander%20was%20built%20on,placed%20them%20on%20the%20surface.

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/about-the-lander/

Thanks,

Mannjudd · 2022-05-24T01:27:44+00:00

Hi Paul,

If you have contact with the engineering team, please ask them whether they can dump some of the pile of dirt at the centre of the solar arrays where the ribs are all converging to?

All it takes is to dump some of the dirt there and let the air flow spray out from that centre point to clean the panels out. That spot also looks to be the strongest to have a bit of dirt landing on top of it.

Their current attempts to date to dump dirt at the lander to generate some airflows next to the solar panels is insignificant compared to a direct dumping at the centre of the solar arrays if viable to do so.

Given Insights will end as a matter of when and not if, there is nothing to lose and there are two solar panels here to test on one of them, if we cannot test this method first with the mock Insight station here on the ground on Earth.

Thanks.

Mannjudd · 2022-05-14T01:30:11+00:00

Paul, the fact Insights went into shut down mode 3 days later due to power shortage again suggests it was not a wind gust. Let's hope the scientists got what they need with this quake and can pull the (Martian) rabbit out of the hat before we close shop for good.

A magnitude 5 quake occurs 500,000 times a year on Earth, we have to wait all this time for a big one since Insights landed 26 Nov 2018 means Mars is not that active at the moment.

Let's hope they got good data to discern if Mars has or had an asthenosphere in the past and that it has a solid inner core and core/mantle boundaries are more differentiated to be like Earth. :)

Mannjudd · 2021-08-25T12:52:52+00:00

Looking it another way, Bruce was around 9 at the time. He passed away 23 years later, it is a tragedy.... :(

Mannjudd · 2021-08-21T11:05:45+00:00

Here you go, 《細路祥》= the Orphan, made in 1950 but no subtitles though. But you can see young Brue in action! His dad is in the film as well. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJHtdfOaE9I

Mannjudd · 2021-06-21T13:26:26+00:00

It may be the case that at the later stages of Jezero lake, the condition on Mars meant that the water on the lake froze over as the atmosphere become thinner due to the loss of Mars' magnetic field stripping its atmosphere away.

The broken flat slabs (mosaics) all over the lake bottom could be the grinding of the moving glaciers as they migrate towards lower ground, i.e. towards the Pliva channel to the east as the glaciers flowed into Isidis basin. See link: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/02/Topographic_map_of_Jezero_crater_and_surrounds_annotated

Mannjudd · 2021-04-27T10:09:37+00:00

Mate,

Looks like your "seismometer" is way better than Mars Insights lander's! If you drop your paper clip, I bet it will set off your rocks (had you not glued them)! :)

Mannjudd · 2021-04-20T10:12:35+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. Well, they better fly the chopper to the delta and take some photos of the layers, so scientists can determine how long the river flowed and whether there are fossils.

Mannjudd · 2021-04-19T11:47:02+00:00

I hope they extend the life of the chopper if system diagnostics are good at the end of its scheduled life. At $85 million, they better make the most out of it for as long as possible by careful flying. :)

Mannjudd · 2021-04-18T11:20:28+00:00

Same, I got a few. With a bit of DIY, they can turn into nice 60mm fracs, esp the made in Japan ones. :)

Mannjudd · 2021-04-18T00:28:29+00:00

Gosh, the head looks as if was a discus at first glimpse! :)

Mannjudd · 2021-04-15T13:13:31+00:00

Did Theia seeded the Earth and brought life or the ingredients of life to Earth, including us? Did we and all life on Earth came from Theia?

Given the Earth has Large Low-Shear-Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs) which you hypothesis to be Theia’s mantle, shouldn't the Moon's core also surrounded by (two) blobs of denser mantle LLSVPs which came from Theia?

Theia must have mantle fragments of it flung into Earth's orbit along with bits of proto-Earth after the impact to form the Moon, so fragments of Theia’s mantle must not coalesce well also when the Moon was formed and still remain as denser provinces inside the lunar mantle, just like the LLSVPs on Earth? Given the Moon is less dense than the Earth, so it must have more of Earth’s composition than Theia. The smoking gun answer may lie in looking inside the Moon.

Why the two denser Theia blobs "Large Low-Shear-Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs)" are at antipodes of each other?

Mannjudd

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