First colour image from Mars (Spirit) rover is up!

NASA Mars Rover web site ^ | 6 Jan 04 | NASA

[Main Street]

[Professional Engineer]

ROFLMAO

Love the antennea.

[Muzzle_em]

Post 103.
The image in the upper right of the photo looks like a petrified crocodile.

[Lokibob]

How about this one???

 

[Orange1998]

That guy is everywhere!

[okie01]

"Looks like some parts of Nevada...amazingly so...suspiciously so...."

About forty miles southwest of Tonopah, I figger...

[doug from upland]

I see the face of Richard Hoagland!!!

[MHGinTN]

Goreghoul invented footprints, don'tcha know!

[Armed Civilian]

Hey, how did you get on Mars? The pictures look like scenes from capricorn one.

[Shermy]

Some definite possibilities southeast too.

[Armed Civilian]

I told you it's a scene from capricorn one, OJ was in that movie.

[Armed Civilian]

I knew that book my wife got me was true, Men are from Mars. Where are the Venus pics

[okie01]

Did you notice who did your map?

No wonder it took him so long to get to Phoenix...

[Shermy]

Not quite `Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo'

[Boiling point]

Can you imagine an entire planet that looks like that! As far as you could see or walk. While helping my daughter with her science project recently, we found a web site with pictures of Venus. I was unaware until then that probes had landed on Venus. The first one, a soviet craft, only sent pictures and data for a few seconds. It read a surface temp of about 750F and about 90 atmospheres pressure if I remember correctly. The second probe, another soviet, confirmed the data from the first. That and the sulfuric acid atmosphere was why the first probe malfunctioned so quickly.

[okie01]

I've often wondered what would've happened to Glen Campbell, had he not had Jimmy Webb -- a good Oklahoma boy -- to write songs for him.

From the picture, looks like he misses Jimmy. A lot...

[Ophiucus]

In case anyone is interested - the Mars rover documentary is on PBS tonight.

[NittanyLion]

Y-day on JPL web site, they said that it landed within 600 feet (200 meters) of the place they had aimed. That is precision.

That must be equivalent to dropping a dart out of a jet at 30,000 feet and putting it in the 50-ring. Absolutely amazing.

[Lokibob]

A comparison I heard was the equivalent of hitting a dime thrown in the air in NY from a gun in California.

[RightWhale]

probes had landed on Venus

A dozen or so. Russia landed about 10. If you can imagine anything electronic working for 1/2 hour in 800 degrees and air so thick with acid it would dissolve steel immediately. APL is preparing to launch an orbiter to Mercury--a big sunshade attached to the spacecraft from under which it will attempt to image the planet. Also 800 degrees in the sun, but less in the shade.