NASA picks landing sites for twin Martian rovers

SJ Mercury News ^ | 4/11/03 | AP - Pasadena

[NormsRevenge]

PASADENA, Calif (AP) - NASA unveiled the landing sites today where it hopes to land twin rovers on Mars next January to look for geological evidence that the Red Planet was once a warmer, wetter place hospitable to life.

Data gathered from NASA satellites orbiting the planet suggest both sites once abounded in water.

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[Inspectorette]

Oh - I thought this was going to be about the Lee sisters - Sheila Jackson (D-TX), and Barbara (D-CA).

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[Orangedog]

LOL! Maybe she can get a picture of the flag we left there!

[GBTexan]

BAH! Why are we still sending machines to the red planet? It's time to reclaim space and put Americans on Barsoom. It's time to make Mars our celestial beeyotch.

[Orangedog]

Hell, we can't even muster the political will to go back to the moon, let alone go all the way to Mars.

[TopQuark]

See that's just the proof the Left was seeking: today Iraq, tomorrow Mars. That's the kind of expansionist policies they warned us about.

Why can't we do what they tell us and be a regular third-world, socialist country?

[bmwcyle]

One Dems Congress Woman wants to know if they can drive over to where our boys planted the American Flag. /sarcasm

[Inspectorette]

BWHAHAHAHA!!

[aBootes]

The landing sites had to be at fairly low altitudes to provide enough atmosphere to fill the parachutes

Yes, the landing sites ought to be at low altitudes -- preferably ground level since landing higher has proven to be a problem for NASA. And low latitudes will provide a denser atmosphere as well...

[PA Engineer]

NASA picks landing sites for twin Martian rovers

Identical or Fraternal?

[baclava]

I don't think it wise to provoke our little grey friends anymore - they were quite specific the last time they 'took out' our probe to the Red Planet - what part of "Attempt No Landings Here" does NASA not understand?