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<p>[QUOTE="Danester, post: 1504176, member: 17058"]<span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">A 1909 Lincoln Cent will be touching down on the surface of Mars with the 2012 “Curiosity” NASA rover – scheduled to land at 1:17 AM EDT Monday Aug 6</font>[SUP]<font size="2">th</font>[/SUP]<font size="3"> (10:17 PM Sunday PDT August 5</font>[SUP]<font size="2">th</font>[/SUP]<font size="3">). The 1909 Lincoln Cent is aboard as a calibration target for the Mars Hand Lens Imager instrument. If this coin could be recovered sometime in the future and then certified by PCGS.... what a prize!</font></font></span></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">There is an image of a 1909 Lincoln Cent on page 6A of this Friday's USA Today. It has "NASA" printed below it, so I am assuming it is the actual image of the coin on-board. It has some red high-lights and looks AU-58... but it is hard tell the grade from the small image. Could be a VDB or Doubled Die, however.</span></font></font></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><br /></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">No more bouncing cushion ball landings as in the past. This rover will be landing like Buck Rogers by an eight –engine jetpack "sky crane" that will gently lower it to the surface. </font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><br /></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"></font></font></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o" rel="nofollow"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="color: #800080">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o</span></font></font></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Danester, post: 1504176, member: 17058"][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]A 1909 Lincoln Cent will be touching down on the surface of Mars with the 2012 “Curiosity” NASA rover – scheduled to land at 1:17 AM EDT Monday Aug 6[/SIZE][SUP][SIZE=2]th[/SIZE][/SUP][SIZE=3] (10:17 PM Sunday PDT August 5[/SIZE][SUP][SIZE=2]th[/SIZE][/SUP][SIZE=3]). The 1909 Lincoln Cent is aboard as a calibration target for the Mars Hand Lens Imager instrument. If this coin could be recovered sometime in the future and then certified by PCGS.... what a prize![/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] There is an image of a 1909 Lincoln Cent on page 6A of this Friday's USA Today. It has "NASA" printed below it, so I am assuming it is the actual image of the coin on-board. It has some red high-lights and looks AU-58... but it is hard tell the grade from the small image. Could be a VDB or Doubled Die, however.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri] No more bouncing cushion ball landings as in the past. This rover will be landing like Buck Rogers by an eight –engine jetpack "sky crane" that will gently lower it to the surface. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o"][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#800080]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][/QUOTE]
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