Posted on 10/30/2004 7:40:28 PM PDT by Bones75
A view of the sundial-like calibration target on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, with a bit of martian terrain in the background, is the 50,000th image from the twin rovers that have been exploring Mars since January.
The images stock a treasury of scientific information on scales from microscopic detail to features on the horizon scores of kilometers or miles away, and even include glimpses of Mars' moons, Earth and the Sun. They also provide an always-current understanding of the surrounding terrain for use by the team of rover wranglers planning each day's activities on Mars.
more: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/041030pictures.html
Bones
ping
ping?
No doubt about it, we totally rock! Who's footprints are those up there on the lunar surface, would those be the footprints of a soviet socialist? Of course not. Those are the footprints of a free American!
On a related note, I am so looking forward to the Huygens probe landing, pictures from Titan's surface should be amazing.
I hope I will see a man on Mars in my lifetime, also relatively cheap passenger space flight.
Bones
??? those things are still running???
Absolutely! Running well, too. Some minor glitches, and Spirit has arthritis in one wheel, but yeah, they are running.
What a damn fine set of rovers they are! Much respect to NASA and JPL for those two little camps!
They have already more than trippled their design life.
Bones
wow.
I view the world now as Europe was in about 1480.
We are close, real close, to a way to get the average man off the planet. When that happens the other planets will become the new world.
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