NASA using Welsh to communicate on Mars mission

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http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/nasa-mars-mission-welsh-language-10074515

Stunning images from HiRISE Mars satellite mission are the first of their kind to be communicated in the Welsh language, NASA experts say.



Scientists at NASA are using the Welsh language to catalogue images sent back from a satellite mission to Mars.

HiRISE is a high resolution camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) which is being used to take images of the Red Planet.

The multipurpose spacecraft was launched in August 2005 and reached Martian orbit seven months later joining five other spacecraft either in orbit or on the red planet’s surface.

Earlier this year Ari Espinoza, a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson sought assistance to help Welsh-language resources of the Mars images.

Gwych! Cool!

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1. Hooray!

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2. Hwre!

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3. How do you say in Welsh, "Oh no, Martians!"

I tried to find out, but Google Translate couldn't pull it off. Stupid Google.

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4. Hmmm, maybe

O na, dynion Mawrth!

(lit. "Mars men&quot

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10. Cool!

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5. Definitely going to share this story!

Diolch!

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6. Croeso!

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7. I find something Welsh to share, every day, on Face Book. Today it was....

Taken along the River Conwy. It sure pulls at my heart strings!

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8. Hyfryd!

Lovely!

I love North Wales. I lived there in Bangor for a few months. It is absolutely stunning!

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9. I used to go up to Llandudno

I'd get a rail pass and travel the north. I love the Betws-y-Coed area.

We're getting ready to start our family research, to replace the 'tree' that was lost. Once we get the town/village identified, my brother and I are going to take some of Dad's ashes to scatter. The family came over in the mid 1800's, so it's not beyond the realm of possibilities that we might find some distant cousins.

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11. I've been there. It's a beautiful seaside town.

Betws is great too!

I like that you're searching for your Welsh roots. My family came from South Wales, Port Talbot in the 1880s and settled in Scranton, PA in a Welsh-speaking enclave called Hyde Park.

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13. My initial research search shows we might be from Swansea

Or, at least sailed from there. I'm descended from coal miners (go figure!) so I figure the family is likely from the south. Two families with the same last name traveled on the same ship and both settled in Frostburg, MD. My great-aunt told me that, when she was a child, the family still spoke Welsh. They were members of the Welsh Baptist Church in Frostburg, and the church is still there and seems to be very active. I'll likely contact them, first, to see what documents they might have in their archives.

I'm hoping to get started on the deep research as soon as I've settled some family estate business. I've had three deaths in the immediate family, since January, and dealing with that has really been my life, lately.

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14. Sorry to hear about your losses.

I think the church records are a great idea. I wish I lived closer to Scranton. I live in Minneapolis and haven't been to Scranton since I was a kid when my grandparents were still alive. I have the bi-lingual hymnal from my grandma's childhood church. I'm not even sure the church is still there.

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15. Thank you

We're planning a trip to Frostburg, when things quiet down. My sister died in January, my mom in February, and my aunt died, just last week. I'm ready for some peace.

My Dad told me what he remembered about the info his cousin uncovered, years ago, when he did the original family tree. It will be interesting to see how much I can confirm.

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12. Goodness gratious. That is so beautiful.

My first reaction was it's not real. It is real, isn't it?

Gorgeous.