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Today is September 11, 2016. Fifteen years ago, to my horror, I was watching New York burning, via satellite relay on a TV at the school where I was teaching in London. When I was myself a student in California, it was a fairly optimistic time. If someone had told me that this was what the first year of the new millennium would bring, I wouldn't have believed it.

Here is a picture of a cable shield, with American flag, on NASA's Mars rover Spirit, now silent. But her twin Opportunity also has one on the rock abrasion tool. Both were being made by Honeybee Robotics in lower Manhattan on 9/11/2001. Honeybee made the cable shields from 2 pieces of aluminum from the debris at Ground Zero.

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Here is the whole composite image of a Martian September 11 memorial. It was taken on Mars on Sept. 11, 2011. Two cameras on Opportunity recorded exposures during the rover's 2,713th Martian day that were combined into this view.

The color portion of the image combines three exposures taken through different filters by Opportunity's panoramic camera to approximate true color as the human eye would see it. The black-and-white portion of the view comes from Opportunity's navigation camera.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Arizona State University

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9/11 was the beginning and the end - end of a more casual era and the beginning of suspicion and the loss of the feeling of safety and probably more.

I haven't received any notices that forums I watch have had new postings. Was a change made?

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I don't know, Angie. Some people have reported problems with the forums, but I don't remember this being one of them. I haven't seen any official change of policy.

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Notifications started up again - one yesterday; 5 tonight. A gremlin at work.

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Good. I'm glad that was sorted out. There seems to be an assortment of gremlins sneaking into the system from time to time.


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