Posted on 11/29/2016 11:15:47 AM PST by BenLurkin
The European Space Agency's new Mars orbiter just sent back its first high-resolution images of the Red Planet, and the view is amazing.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) arrived at Mars on Oct. 19, when its companion spacecraft Schiaparelli crash-landed on the planet's surface. Since then, TGO has been circling Mars, testing out its machinery, and taking spectacularly sharp pictures of the landscape using its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS). ESA stitched together the best of these photos in a cool new flyover video.
"The first images we received are absolutely spectacular ― and it was only meant to be a test," Nicolas Thomas, CaSSIS team leader at the University of Bern's Center of Space and Habitability, said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Good, maybe they will find the illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator.
Or Neil Armstrong’s golf ball...no wait...well maybe it did fly that far...
Ask them to check on the flag please.
Love, Sheila
I don’t get the highly elliptical orbit, but at least this portion of the mission continues to function.
Alan Shepard (Apollo 14) is the astronaut that hit a golf ball on the moon.
http://www.pga.com/news/golf-buzz/feb-6-1971-alan-shepard-plays-golf-moon
Inexpensive orbital insertion.
Some pretty good stuff here, too, courtesy of NASA: http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/
Hmmm...I always thought it was Armstrong that did it...strange I’ve been wrong for 45 years...
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