Comments on: Will Phoenix rise from the ice? https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/ Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511821 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:31:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511821 Yeah, thanks, I fixed it. But I just want you to know that I don’t beleive in that rule. I mean really, what a fucking dumb rule. Possessive is a standard grammatical features, elision is a stylistic add on. Whoever came up with that rule should be hung by the participle until dea.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511820 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:18:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511820 I’m reminded of this Daily Show clip:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-17-2008/indecision-2008—philadelphia-democratic-debate-in-review-pt–2

]]> By: David Ross https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511819 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:03:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511819 With all due respect, please see:

http://copyediting-grammar-style.suite101.com/article.cfm/when_to_use_an_apostrophe

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511818 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:14:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511818 OK, the image I downloaded (from the same place both of us are looking) is a different filename. Since they send me press releases, and this time I posted it right away, it may well be that they had a different image up at first and swapped it.

]]> By: DaleP https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511817 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:14:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511817 Ahh, that suggestion makes sense. Now, the 2 NASA images have the same orientation. Perhaps someone posted the recent image with North up. Then, someone else decided consistency with the older image was better, since NASA compares the images in the more recent post.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511816 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:04:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511816 Yea, but … I clipped that image from the same image you linked to (and that I linked to, indirectly) and I did not rotate the image. This can only mean that image was rotated by NASA since they put it up.

]]> By: DaleP https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511815 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:56:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511815 By “upside down”, I meant as displayed on the web page. On this page, the top edge of the green box above is the lower green edge on the image I linked to in comment 1.

A page for a photo of June 2008 (linked from the source image page) reports that North is approximately down for this image orientation.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511814 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:28:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511814 You are correct that that is the heat shield, but I did not turn the image upside down (not that there really is an upside down).

]]> By: DaleP https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511813 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:10:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/12/will-phoenix-rise-from-the-ice/#comment-511813 Image source:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/images/phoenix20100111.html

(linked from your link)

The image in your post above seems to be the middle green box from the source, which NASA reports is the heat shield. Your image is also upside down relative to the presentation on the NASA page. The lander is clearly visible in the bottom green box of the source.

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