The Lincoln on Mars...the farthest from home money...


This picture shows just how much detail the MAHLI camera can pick up. It shows a one-cent coin and a few of the symbols printed on a calibration target mounted on Curiosity. The image was acquired from a distance of 2 inches (5 centimeters). The coin is a 1909 penny provided by MAHLI principal investigator Ken Edgett. "Everyone in the United States can recognize the penny and immediately know how big it is, and can compare that with the rover hardware and Mars materials in the same image," Edgett explained. "The public can watch for changes in the penny over the long term on Mars. Will it change color? Will it corrode? Will it get pitted by windblown sand?" Flecks of reddish Martian sand can already be seen on and around the penny. One of the images printed above the penny is a cartoon character called "Joe the Martian."
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It will be interesting to see the changes that occur over the long term exposure...
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If that was either of the 2 DDOs we could make a long range cherry pick from it
<< <i>I'm more interested in the condition of the Viking coinage that the Mars Rover will eventually uncover.
I know of a couple of Vikings that made it to Mars... don't know if they had coins, but I do have medals of the Vikings
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<< <i>I'm more interested in the condition of the Viking coinage that the Mars Rover will eventually uncover.
I know of a couple of Vikings that made it to Mars... don't know if they had coins, but I do have medals of the Vikings
Those are cool!
Forget about SDBs and guns safes.
Ken Edgett has bragging rights to the safest place to store early Lincolns.
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sand storms. Will it change color? I,m guessing no. Without oxygen present its not likely to turn green
or anything right?
<< <i>I imagine if its exposed to the martian atmosphere that there will be no detail left after a a few years of
sand storms. Will it change color? I,m guessing no. Without oxygen present its not likely to turn green
or anything right? >>
It already looks quite different than when they first sent it up. It looked harshly cleaned with hairlines all over it.
<< <i>I imagine if its exposed to the martian atmosphere that there will be no detail left after a a few years of
sand storms. Will it change color? I,m guessing no. Without oxygen present its not likely to turn green
or anything right? >>
I'm not so sure there is no oxygen... mars is red because of iron oxide i think..
<< <i>I imagine if its exposed to the martian atmosphere that there will be no detail left after a a few years of
sand storms. Will it change color? I,m guessing no. Without oxygen present its not likely to turn green
or anything right? >>
Mars' atmosphere is very thin (about 0.6% the Earth's atmospheric pressure) and is composed of 95% carbon dioxide and 3% nitrogen, neither of which is likely to react with bronze. I think it would take a long time for sandstorms to have a noticeable effect on the coin.
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<< <i>Maybe it's just dust covering it but I think it looks better already.
The photo on the left above looks jacked - see the color of the paper(?) ring around it. Those hairlines are visible in the right photo. WHO is this mars cartoon character? Should we not have sent what's his face with his little Roman hat and his SPACE MODULATOR? I thought Mars was determined to be less red than previously thought in the 1976(?) landing(s)?
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Eric
Wow! Now that slab has to be worth a lot!
Thats what it looks like,little propeller beanie.
<< <i>I'm more interested in the condition of the Viking coinage that the Mars Rover will eventually uncover.
You guys don't get it, he is referring the THE VIKINGS. Erik the Red and Leif Erickson were more ambitious than history gives them credit for!