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Seej · Unfettered Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614

Taking a quick look at the leader board it doesn't look like anyone's quite figured out how to enter these places. The answer page just has numbered boxes to fill in, but I'd guess that they want the name of the feature at each location since every time we've wondered about the ambiguity of the wording on other cards it seems to have simply been paranoia on our part.

I tried answers as supplied by Cassandra in a couple of combinations. Both times I just wrote that it was the S.M.S. at #2, and I tried #5 and #6 with the word "crater" and without (since these features are often marked on maps like this) but neither worked.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:38 pm

cassandra · Entrenched Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831

I would try Ares Vallis. Perhaps the last two are asking for the person (ie, first and last name) instead of the crater? I seem to have lost this card, so I can't check Sad

**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:45 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:07 pm

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I also made some attempts based on the "What are these places?" question, to no avail.

For the record, the following did not work, so don't waste your attempt:

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

I haven't tried variations like "flood plain" for the plains or "volcano" for the mountains yet, but I think that might be going too far afield.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:45 pm

cassandra · Entrenched Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831

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

**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:46 pm

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These three attempts failed:

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

**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:01 am

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**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:32 pm

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cassandra · Entrenched Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831

try without crater?

*sigh*

**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:47 pm

looosy · Boot Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 48 Location: Kent, England

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!

**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:21 pm

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dusty2229 · Veteran Joined: 14 May 2005 Posts: 128 Location: London

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

also tried

**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:58 pm

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Nightingale · Veteran Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 86

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.

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**Posted:** Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:42 pm

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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!

**Posted:** Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:05 pm

Kvasir · Boot Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 48

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.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:11 pm

dusty2229 · Veteran Joined: 14 May 2005 Posts: 128 Location: London

**Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:50 pm

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ChalcoDoror · Veteran Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 148

**Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:44 pm