Re: Oil on Mars...

From: Alan Erskine (alanerskine1_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:24:46 GMT

"Peter Smith" <psmith6@SparnBlock.bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:Hvq5d.4585$5O5.1114@news-server.bigpond.net.au...

> Armstrong's report as he stepped off the LEM that the surface was soft and
> powdery went some way to vindicate those surface predictions. But the
soft
> surface was only skin deep as we saw by the minimal penetration of the LEM
> footpads.
>
> http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/7.1.04/Tom.Gold.obit.html
>
> - Peter

Thomas Gold got a lot more publicity than he deserved. 

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