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First Stereograms of Mars from Spirit
An anonymous reader writes "NASA has made the first stereo image pairs from Spirit available. I've made stereo anaglyphs and arranged the full-size images side-by-side for stereo viewing. These are from the low-res black and white hazard avoidance camera, but still very cool. Anxiously awaiting the first stereo pairs from the panoramic cameras!"
Looks good! I don't really see why you put up those red and green pictures though. I don't think many people get those out of their cerial boxes anymore... Wait.. What's this? OOO, stereo glasses! Cool!
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Oh, I know this will elicit lots of venom, but I'm wondering why we (the United States) as a nation are funding these types of billion dollar excursions. This is not "basic science", wonderful pictures of the Martian surface are not going to extend or increase anything but our knowledge of what kind of rocks are on the surface of Mars. These things, while interesting, will not solve any great national debates, increase out overall knowledge of the universe, or get us any closer to the useless inevitability of putting a human on Mars. These incredible landers do nothing more than allow a few dozen very smart scientists to write masters and doctors' theses. Is there a better way to spend this kind of public cash on something more valuable to more people? A much better place to spend this kind of cash would be on a successor to the Shuttle.
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