U.S. Rover Calls Home, Beams Back Color Photos

Reuters ^ | 01/05/03 | Gina Keating

[farmfriend]

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[Califelephant]

Are these Mars color pics posted anywhere?

[mtbopfuyn]

That's so cool! Way to go little Spirit.

I was very disappointed in E.D. Hill this morning on FNC. Apparently, she's not impressed and is against spending her money on space exploration because it's not directly benefitting her.

[Agnes Heep]

Maybe we can compare some of our photos with those taken by the EU landing craft.

[Future Snake Eater]

I thought it was a reasonable question, personally. I do kind of agree with her. This whole robots thing has been done for decades. Unless there's a man setting foot on Mars, my reaction will continue to be "oh, that's nice."

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Has it seen the Frog's Beagle yet?

[Prime Choice]

Unless there's a man setting foot on Mars, my reaction will continue to be "oh, that's nice."

Would you have preferred the Beagle mission to have been manned?

Until we can safely land at least 25 consecutive robotic probes on Mars, sending a manned mission would be irresponsible.

[Arkinsaw]

Unless there's a man setting foot on Mars, my reaction will continue to be "oh, that's nice."

This is cheaper. I would rather see better and better robots. Any science that a robot can do, I would rather that they do it. When we get to the point where we have done all that robots can do then I would like to see construction robots that would create an infrastructure for a human presence.

[narby]

This whole robots thing has been done for decades. Unless there's a man setting foot on Mars, my reaction will continue to be "oh, that's nice." We need the experience with robots in order to do a human trip. Which, I think is a very important thing to do.

I think we should do everything we can to populate both the Moon and Mars. The science is cool, but to become a space fairing species, we need to get off the pot and do it. If we have people there, the science will be easy.

[Lokibob]

bump

[Califelephant]

If you have a high-speed connection and RealVideo, the animated movie of the Rover's journey and mission on this page:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/video/animation.html
is awesome!

Click on the link that says "Watch an updated, RealVideo version of this spectacular animation."

[marvlus]

Bump for later read!

[Truth29]

It may have been a reasonable question, but this funding is far better spent on space exploration than say welfare or benefits for illegal aliens.

[Prime Choice]

It's going to take a little while to get the color pics processed. Each image is estimated to be around 35 megabytes in size. It takes a little while for a package that size to get from Mars to here. : )

[N. Theknow]

Do any of them show the American Flag?

[Rebelbase]

"Spirit beamed panoramic color images of unprecedented clarity back to Earth Sunday "

Where's the beef?

[petuniasevan]

So far only a low-res thumbnail of a larger image has come in and been published. See below.

The rust color of the martian landscape is apparent in this low-resolution thumbnail
image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. This
image is part of a larger image currently stored onboard the rover in its memory.

Image credit:NASA/JPL/Cornell

[SpottedBeaver]

Found some of these on The Nasa Mars Rover Website.

First 3-D Panorama of Spirit's Landing Site - Jan. 5, 2004

There are a few more but I imagine that there will be alot in the next few days.