Posted on 02/18/2021 1:03:47 PM PST by srmanuel
Big day for Oak Ridge / Y-12 / ORNL
https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-produced-plutonium-238-help-power-perseverance-mars
Looks like my Lucy! Lucy, come home!
Biden put us on Mars!
Amazing Dimentia Joe did it in about six weeks. Trump had four years and could not pull it off. :)
Awesome amount of science and engineering to get us there,
Our Nasa/JPL folks are just incredible!
I’ve watched every landing since Sojourner on July 4th, 1997
It was fun to watch, very exciting.
Congratulations! JPL Pasadena. They’re the best.
Not going to click on twitter but thanks.
“Perseverance.” How “white supremacist” of NASA. /s
I posted a link to another source....
Can someone photoshop in some hand puppets for me
did we forget the color film?
Thanks...that was awesome!
The initial picture is from an engineering camera used for navigation. It doesn’t do color; the purpose is just to prove that the rover is on the ground, right-side-up, etc. The pretty pictures will come later on, including a video of the entry and landing from multiple POVs.
Thank you for the clarification.
On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th martian day, or sol. Spirit was commanded to stay awake briefly after sending that sol's data to the Mars Odyssey orbiter just before sunset. The image is a false color composite, showing the sky similar to what a human would see, but with the colors slightly exaggerated. (NASA/JPL/Texas A&M/Cornell)
Surprising that the images are here in 3 hours.
Several dust devils cross a plain in this animation of a series of images acquired by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit in May, 2005. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS)
Clouds above the rim of "Endurance Crater" in this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. These clouds occur in a region of strong vertical shear. The cloud particles (ice in this martian case) fall out, and get dragged along away from the location where they originally condensed, forming characteristic streamers. Opportunity took this picture with its navigation camera during the rover's 269th martian day (Oct. 26, 2004). (NASA/JPL)
If they find life on Mars at least it never had sex with VP Harris. Maybe.
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