Spirit's First Mars Images

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 4, 2004 @02:24AM from the isn't-that-special dept.

An anonymous reader writes "First panoramic and overhead polar views of Mars, a quarter billion miles away are available. Some spectacular examples and accompanying commentaries are at NASA's Astrobiology Magazine, and JPL."

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first panoramic by chimpo13 · 2004-01-04 02:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Hey, that's just Tatooine. Man, what a rip-off.

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1. Re:first panoramic by Wavicle · 2004-01-04 05:10 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Looks like they are reusing the soundstage used to fake the moon landings. Be on the lookout for shadows going in unusual directions and a hoax special expose produced in a joint venture between Art Bell and that megalith of journalistic integrity and fair reporting, Fox.
  
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2. Re:first panoramic by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-04 07:43 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  No - it's just Main Street, USA after WalMart move in just down the road
Hey! by twoslice · 2004-01-04 02:30 · Score: 5, Funny

I think I see Beagle2! - or what's left of it.....

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Re:OMG! by EpsCylonB · 2004-01-04 02:30 · Score: 4, Funny

You're slashdotting a hundred million dollar mars rover!

$400 million actually and yes that is just spirit.
Please... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-04 02:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Could someone please tell NASA to upload some pictures at 1280X1024, I really need some new wallpaper.

XP's rolling hills are starting to get old... although I could isolate the red channel and tell people it was pictures from Mars, but I digress.
Nice Work by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-04 02:35 · Score: 5, Funny

We hurl the craft towards the planet millions of miles away on a gigantic explosive rocket, just so the robot can land and take pictures of itself. Sounds like my last vacation.
1. Re:Nice Work by AndroidCat · 2004-01-04 04:12 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  For proper vacation photos, you need more people/objects to run through all the combinations and permutations: "Here's me. Here's Susan. Here's the dog. Here's me and Susan. Here's me and the dog..."
  
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operators standing by for transmission by segment · 2004-01-04 02:49 · Score: 4, Funny

here

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1. Re:operators standing by for transmission by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-04 05:13 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Why is that man wearing a tinfoil hat?
Re:boy am I glad! by Lost+Penguin · 2004-01-04 02:50 · Score: 5, Funny

>Why not divert the billions of dollars spent on WMD to aid the starving populations instead?<

The Mars mission was to search for Iraq's WMDs that cannot be found on Earth.

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Awe man... by ackthpt · 2004-01-04 02:54 · Score: 5, Funny

All that money and all that time and still got the picture of the backs of heads. Funny how these martians look like NASA geeks. Maybe if we flew in some babes and a couple cases of beer there really would be life on Mars.

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1. Re:Awe man... by JDWTopGuy · 2004-01-04 05:56 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You mean I'm not the only one who still has my Spy Kids 3D glasses?
  
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Re:Problem with images by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-04 03:09 · Score: 1, Funny

Could they take along one of those X10 cameras? Then they're bound to catch some nubile Martian princess in the shower.
Strictly in the scientific interest of proving life exists on Mars, you understand.
Re:Problem with images by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-04 03:59 · Score: 3, Funny

I bet their ping time is shit, though...
Re:When are Beagle pics coming in? by SamSim · 2004-01-04 04:09 · Score: 4, Funny

We did get one message back from Beagle. "Probe yum yum... tastes like chicken. Send more probe"

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Yeah because... by wombatmobile · 2004-01-04 04:43 · Score: 2, Funny

The landscape seems a lot flatter than where Pathfinder landed.

This one was shot in a different studio.
Re:To all the NASA drivers: by wombatmobile · 2004-01-04 04:50 · Score: 5, Funny

I would hate to be the person who got the rover stuck...
or the guy from AAA when NASA calls.
Re:Problem with images by the+eric+conspiracy · 2004-01-04 04:51 · Score: 2, Funny

I bet their ping time is shit, though...

Unless you are a Martian.
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Re:Congratulations to the team by mattkime · 2004-01-04 05:13 · Score: 4, Funny

I believe the success of this mission means that no one working on it reads slashdot.

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that's no studio... by Tumbleweed · 2004-01-04 05:19 · Score: 4, Funny

...that's South Dakota.
Battlebots by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-04 05:30 · Score: 3, Funny

If Opportunity lands and Beagle is still alive, they can play Battlebots!
Oh, wait... by Xaroth · 2004-01-04 06:20 · Score: 2, Funny

First panoramic images from Mars. I'm somehow let down by that. I guess I'd hoped for something more along the lines of:

"We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars?"

...instead of just some pictures of some stupid rocks.

Ah well. Maybe next time.

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Re:Yeah, but we don't really know... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-04 06:28 · Score: 1, Funny

and the enviromentalist Martians could
complain about Earthlings's sending
their gas guzzlers to ruin their clean
air.
Slashdotters on Mars by Elonka · 2004-01-04 07:46 · Score: 2, Funny

Okay, now I'm curious. Considering the DVD with 3.5 million names that has also now landed safely on Mars, how many people from the Slashdot community (aside from myself) are now officially Martians?
Elonka :)
1. Re:Slashdotters on Mars by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-04 12:04 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  I would like to see the look on the Martians' face when they read the little print on the DVD saying "reverse engineering this would be in violation of the DMCA."
Re:Too Bad... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-04 08:01 · Score: 1, Funny

The greens are generally reds here on earth too.