Mars Pictures Beamed Back To Earth

Ananova ^ | 12-3-2003

[dead]

Kind of a crappy picture. Looks like a smudge.

[blam]

"Kind of a crappy picture. Looks like a smudge."

I think the French are involved.

[thoughtomator]

If the French were involved it would be white, square, and waving

[Kay Soze]

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I see George Bush's face in that dark smudge in the center. No, really!

[BulletBobCo]

We will be waiting for you.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

HAHA!!

[Prime Choice]

Kind of a crappy picture.

Looks like the quality of picture you'd get of Mars when taking the photo from the Earth. Either they have a really lousy camera on board that spacecraft, or someone's trying to pass off a terran-based photo as a space-based photo.

[firebrand]

may have been covered with water. It is therefore a good place to look for evidence that life once existed on Mars,

Myth Number 1: Where there's water, there's life.

[Hunble]

With all of the robotic space probes about the arrive at their destinations, the next few months will be exciting.

We will see more real science exploration in the next two months, from these low cost robotic probes, than 10 years worth of manned missions with the Shuttle.

Robots first, man second!

[GluteusMax]

Looks like the quality of picture you'd get of Mars when taking the photo from the Earth. Either they have a really lousy camera on board that spacecraft, or someone's trying to pass off a terran-based photo as a space-based photo.

My thoughts exactly. My company builds high resolution cameras for spacecraft. We'd lose all our contracts with crappy images like that.

Coupled with their admission that they are operating on 30% of their electrical power, perhaps the Euroweenies spacecraft will join the Japanese one that failed earlier this week.

[Hunble]

Why we never find life on Mars....

[South40]

[southernnorthcarolina]

One can only hope that the pics will be sharp enough to identify the squadrillions of taxpayer dollars strewn about the Martian landscape. So far, our investment has demonstrated that some of the rocks on Mars are brownish-red, whereas others are reddish-brown. They also differ from one another in size and shape.

[blam]

Mars Closest To Earth In Nearly 60,000 Years

[Salman]

Myth Number 1: Where there's water, there's life.

Fact number 1: Where there's no water, there's no life.

So where do you look for life?

[jempet]

More exciting will be the close-ups from Saturn due in next year July 1, 2004. At least I'm excited about it. We will finally get good closeups of the rings, and will be launching a miny probe to check out Titan. The Cassini spacecraft was launched on October 15, 1997. Mars is old news, this is something we haven't seen up close before.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/saturn_cassini.html

[Erik Latranyi]

Myth Number 1: Where there's water, there's life. Fact number 1: Where there's no water, there's no life.

If we follow the guidelines set out by environmentalists, you can have water and no life -- MTBE comes to mind.

[Gumption]

Where have you seen water that had no life within?