The Mars penny all shiny before launch (left) and on Oct. 2. The coin is a 1909 VDB cent. The initials “VDB” of the coin’s designer, Victor David Brenner, are etched onto the reverse side. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Posted on 10/05/2013 8:16:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Mars penny all shiny before launch (left) and on Oct. 2. The coin is a 1909 VDB cent. The initials “VDB” of the coin’s designer, Victor David Brenner, are etched onto the reverse side. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An extra to X-Planets and APoD.
Liberty! It rocks.
Fantastic.
Thanks so much, SunkenCiv!
That’s very neat. Good for the man who thought of it and bought the Penny. Very nice touch.
Thanks, that’s cool! Had not heard about that.
Great story, the Curiosity also carries my name etched on a chip.
Look at that image crosseyed for an interesting faux stereoscopic effect.
Back in the late 80s or very early 90s I recall Astronomy magazine has a blurb about Jupiter (possibly a transit event) and they had 2 images of Jupiter side by side taken a few hours apart. The ever so slight rotation of the planet... though they did not mean for this effect... lent itself to a perfect stereoscopic view of the planet. Looking at the twin image “just right” truly did render depth... it looked like a marble you could reach out and touch.
Shelia Jackson Lee must be beside herself that the first politician on Mars is a Republican. Probably will demand an investigation as to why a bi-partisan team of politicians were not sent there to plant the US flag. :-)
well, he did free the slaves.
They probably got the idea from watching that Adventure Time episode of Abe Lincoln on Mars.
FWIW, Jupiter has about a 10 hour day.
My pleasure.
I put the names of my family members on some outer solar system probe, a similar chip, beats me which one. :’)
In a Hundred and Fifty years some kid on a field trip is going to snag that sucker!
It will irk liberals (er, “progressives”) to no end that “In God We Trust” is on a NASA robot on Mars. That will be the last time that happens.
Probably the probe(Stardust) that met up with a comet.Scooped up comet particles and returned to Earth. It had names on board from a NASA website where you could sign up!
Stardust Microchip
Stardust was launched carrying two sets of identical pairs of square 10.16-centimetre (4.00 in) silicon wafers. Each pair featured engravings of well over one million names of people who participated in the public outreach program by filling out internet forms available in late 1997 and mid-1998. One pair of the microchips was positioned on the spacecraft and the other was attached to the sample return capsule.
I thought this was going to prove to be some lame provocative headline, tied to a silly speculative article, but instead it is actually quite interesting. Thanks!
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