[gid]

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I've been trying "Olympus Rupes" rather than "Olympus Mons", which seems to be a more precise location (the cliffs on the edge of Olympus Mons). I couldn't find any more precise locations for the others, other than the different names for the landing sites.

I've used up my three attempts for the day.

I have a feeling this daily limit is really going to annoy me in time.

[solitair]

Just tried, with no success.

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Olympus Mons Carl Sagan Memorial Station Thomas Mutch Memorial Station Pavonis Mons Korolev crater Schiaparelli crater

ChalcoDoror, could you indicate which we have right (if any) and which we're way off base on?

[dusty2229]

also don't work

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volcano valley plain caldera crater crater

[Hunting4Treasure]

These didn't work:

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1. Olympus Mons 2. Ares Vallis 3. Chryse Planitia 4. Pavonis Mons 5. Sergey Korolev 6. Giovanni Schiaparelli For #2 I also tried 'Carl Sagan' and 'Carl Sagan Memorial'. I would have also tried 'Carl Sagan Memorial Station' but I ran out of guesses.

How about a bone with a little meat on it?

[ChalcoDoror]

dusty2229 wrote:

Quote: You're all on the right track with the Mars features, you just need to figure out the correct words for the coordinates. Thanks I think we know that Care to throw a bone?

A bone? sure.
Nightingale's list is too detailed for the puzzle, you're going a bit too deep.
Uneasyjd, you're not on the right track by listing what type of feature it is.

[dusty2229]

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You're all on the right track with the Mars features, you just need to figure out the correct words for the coordinates.

Thanks I think we know that
Care to throw a bone?

[Kvasir]

Solved it, which means I can now look at what you guys are thinking.

You're all on the right track with the Mars features, you just need to figure out the correct words for the coordinates.

[locqust]

we would say "lift" but "space elevator" which is what it's referring to is an American term coined by NASA and sci-fi authors (not sure which came 1st, not even gonna try to work that out)
However it may be referring to the red mars trilogy books, I have noticed that reference used a few times in other cards.

Rite now I have my map of Mars out, (don't ask why i have 1, I just do!) and it also has the landing sites of all probes marked on it and they do match up, so I guess it is just a question of technical wording rather than the answers are wrong!

[Nightingale]

Approaching from a slightly different direction...

1) Mount Olympus, Olympus Mons - enough said, probably.
2) Rover, Mars pathfinder was known as a Rover - Rover cars...
3) Viking (s)? Historically pioneering race, also place where Viking landed
4) still trying to work out - perhaps to do with space elevator
5) Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, Chief designer of the Russian Space race - crater named after him
6) Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Italian Astronomer

The question on the card is 'What are these places?'. We are given co-ordinates which, once found would solve the card. BUT, we are given little hints underneath them - which I don't think are nescessery if you're given co-ordinates.

I haven't tried these out yet (no point as number 4 eludes me) although have read about Pavonis Mons and elevators on wiki but didn't make any connections (had a hard day). BUT it's an English company that's running this game and (as far as I know) English spellings and culture (ie Mornington Crescent) have been constant throughout so why are they using the word 'elevator' instead of 'lift'. Is it a London thing, cause where I come from nobody uses the word 'elevator'. But then again, where I come from most folks have just discovered fire and the wheel.

Go on! Pick my theory to parts! Tell me how and why I'm wrong because it's just going round and round in my head - driving me nuts.

Laura

[dusty2229]

Tried my three attempts for today....sigh
For 5 & 6 entered just the "chief designer" and "farsighted mapmaker" names but no..


also tried

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"Plains of Gold" for the translation of 3

so that's me locked out for another day and my failed attempts score rockets through the roof

[looosy]

Incidentally, 1 and 4 are volcanoes and not mountains... well, ok, because they're volcanoes they are also mountains, but geologically the fact they're volcanoes is more important than them being mountains.

I can't try it out yet though!

[cassandra]

try without crater?

*sigh*

[uneasyjd]

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1. mountain 2. valley 3. plain 4. mountain 5. crater 6. crater

...doesn't work either.

[doublecross]

These three attempts failed:

olympus mons
sojourner / sojourner rover / mars pathfinder sojourner rover
chryse planitia
pavonis mons
korolev crater
schiaparelli crater

[cassandra]

Aha. I think I figured it out - it's #2. The correct answer probably should be:

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Sojourner. (possibly Sojourner Rover, or Mars Pathfinder Rover) The Pathfinder is the vessel that landed and the landing site was named Sagan Memorial Station. The Sojourner, however, is the first-ever little autonomous wheelie the Pathfinder deployed. Hence the 'my first wheels.'

So if this works, send me some ppc points in spirit