Preserved Topic: JPL Spirit Rover on Mars

Click here for some great photos of Mars from the Spirit Rover...

Woohoo! I know it's expensive, but I very much in favor of expanding our footprint in space. This recent success is a very good thing for the space program. These pictures we're getting are so clear and should really help us to understand the history of Mars so much better.

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On a negative note, am I the only one who is disturbed by pictures like this one?

This kind of emotional outburst from scientists really gets under my skin. I mean what would Mr. Spock think?
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This is good news for NASA that's for sure. NASA has been on the burner for a while.

I'd like to have some 3D glasses to check out those 3D pics

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I was just thinking the same thing this morning CPrompt about wanting the 3D glasses...i'm gonna have to look in my kids room...i think they had a pair left over from Spy Kids 3D

heh... I was watching this on CNN and that mad sci disturbs the crap outta me.... he was the guy with the digicam, right?


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Indeed the pictures are quite detailed, and that's a great thing to boost the space program.

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We can even see the antenas on the ETs head.

sorry
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The scientist have a high pressure, and work on the project during several years, so it's human to unleash the pressure when the things goes like a charm.

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I mean what would Mr. Spock think?

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He would certainly think something like : That's illogical captain.



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Bleh, I'm all for space exploration but now is not the time. The whole Iraqi war trashed our economy and budget surpless, I don't know where all this money is coming from. Even if money is no object (and to Bush it appears not to be) I think there are more pressing issues that could use the dough. Putting the money into education would probably have more scientific returns in the long run than space exploration. Or what about cancer research? I try to be an optimist though, so looking on the bright side, at least we're not speneding that money on another war.

If now is not the time to explore space, then when is the time?

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I'm with you Bugs!

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Bleh, I'm all for space exploration but now is not the time. The whole Iraqi war trashed our economy and budget surpless, I don't know where all this money is coming from. Even if money is no object (and to Bush it appears not to be) I think there are more pressing issues that could use the dough. Putting the money into education would probably have more scientific returns in the long run than space exploration. Or what about cancer research? I try to be an optimist though, so looking on the bright side, at least we're not speneding that money on another war.

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More money into education? American education? In the American education system? HAHA!

Money doesn't improve education. Educators do.

And what provides those educators and their materials? Peanuts?

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Tangent alert!!!

~Bugs is tempted to swing this thread even further off course... must resist... uhn...~

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Bleh, I'm all for space exploration but now is not the time.

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You don't honestly think they started this whole thing 3 weeks ago, do you? This project began years ago.

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Money doesn't improve education. Educators do.

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This is why all the good teachers are in private schools, because they
get paid more money. The better someone is at their job, the higher
wage they demand, thus, all the good teachers, who realize that the public
school is not paying enough and who are sick of all the politics that go along
with teaching, move into the private sector. Anyway, yea....NaSa rocks...........


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a whole slew of new pictures from Spirit....

Oh crap!!! Richard Hoagland was right about there being a civilization on Mars centuries ago!!! Proof positive from that last round of images.

a digital animation of the Mars Exploration Rover project.

And obviously, someone found the Evidence that NASA is altering the true colors of the pictures of Mars.



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I am left wondering if the people at xfacts have any sort of point at all.....

And now some from the Mars Express as well -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3410631.stm

hmmm...that page crashed my IE6...LOL

are all those pictures computer generated or just the one? They all look the same

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I like the picture of a penny from the "microscopic imager."

I could take a better picture with my digital camera and I'm sure it cost a whole lot less.

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Look at the official site of the Mars Express mission. The pages work for me ( even with IE6 ), and there's a 4096x4096 top view of the Valles Marineris and a big version of the composition showed on the BBC.



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"Amazing" new picture of Mars. Brand new image of the creation of an Ozone and sign of life?
Mars Explorer

Why the hell did NASA bother to animate an image of dirt?

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rover-images/jan-20-2004/mi_pre_post_mb_2-med.gif

NASA Is Not Altering Mars Colors.

Yikes! I don't like the sound of this development: Mars Rover Stops Sending Data

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Martians were overheard saying, "All your rovers are belong to us!"

New photos from ESA's Mars Express, scientists say they're the proof that there have been streams of water and possibly also life on Mars at some point:

http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMFEB474OD_FeatureWeek_1.html

Especially the channel on the 4th one looks promising to me

Wow, the new pics from Mars Express are really nice.

Boudga: That's a good thing that the NASA took the Oportunity to build and send a second rover. It supposed to land ~ the 25th january.

i particularly liked the picture of the summit caldera of Albor Tholus

I know a lot of NASA people are wiping sweat from their brows this morning

sorry for the triple post but I felt compelled...
Proof that the images sent back are not true colors...

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"Data from the panoramic camera's green, blue and infrared filters were combined to create this approximate true color image."

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