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First High-Res Color Photos from Mars
mzs writes "The first color thumbnail from Spirit was available yesterday from a larger image. Today some full-size color images are available. If you are in the USA you may be interested in catching the NOVA program on your local PBS station tonight." Acrobatman notes the existence of a nifty utility:"Mars24, a Mac OS X and Java application and applet which displays a Mars 'sunclock', a graphical representation of Mars. This free utility shows the current sun- and nightsides of Mars, along with a numerical readout of the time in 24-hour format and landmarks such as the landing positions of the rovers."
What would you prefer? Picotexas?
Interesting how the Martian clock gives the Mars date like so: MSD 46218.763 This looks very similar to ye olde Star Trek stardates.
...the "Mars Sol Date" (MSD) defined by AM2000. This represents a sequential count of Mars solar days elapsed since 1873 December 29 at approximately Greenwich noon
I need alittle help. Who can tell me where in Utah this picture was faked by the liberal space establishment?
If we work together we can beat the system!!
If you look at the first photo, you will notice that a small area is blacked out. Is there something there that NASA doesn't want us to see?
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...I wonder how long the commute is to the Bay Area from there? Maybe I could talk my boss into letting me telecommute a couple of days a month...
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
i know.
they could have at least landed near a town or a beach or something.
lysergically yours
Why is the landscape around Mars landers always so uninspiring?
It's due to an agreement between NASA and the Cultural Interdiction Wing of the Gyken-JAT Pan-Sapient Meld.
The CIW allows a probe to land now and then . . . as long as it doesn't stray near sites that would make Hu-Mans really want to go to Mars.
Such as the soaring mountains, yawning chasms, spectacular wind-carved rock outcroppings, and the planet's numerous brightly-lit interspecies brothels.
Stefan
And I see an old lady smoking a cigar... oh wait, wrong test.
Wow, such beautiful looking virgin terrain. The views are breathtaking, and the vast redness of the soil gives it a warm and cozy atmosphere.
It just makes the real estate developer in me itch for action.
Microsoft Windows is, fittingly, the official Desktop OS of Olig
nice and cool? I'd love 291 Kelvin right about now....it's freaking 257 Kelvin here
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
Maybe they'll get a shot of Beagle 2 bouncing across the landscape...
Half those images are bits of the robot itself.
If they wanted hi-res images of the robot, why not take them BEFORE they sent it to Mars?
Is Mars really THAT boring?
http://jesus.everdense.com/
Mars should be OK. Just watch out for pics of Uranus.
What you're seeing on the horizon isn't the sky, it's the dust cloud that is still settling after the Beagle impacted. :)
I believe under the black cersored block you will find either a KDE or gnome logo and NASA didn't want to deal with SCO lawsuits (despite SCO behaving as if they are from another planet)
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
Where are all the chicks with three boobs?
I give men fish.
More links.
Also helps if you spell poorly.
How many breadboxes to a Volkswagen?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Here's a fantastic quote from that page (this is regarding a photographic artifact that appears in one picture):
My opinion about the object is, that there are only 3 possibilities:
1. There is a turtle-like animal living on Mars.
2. There is a turtle-like robot operating on Mars.
3. The image was manipulated by someone to let a turtle-like object appear.
Mmm... turtles...
Take your digital camera out and slam it against a wall hard enough to generate 40gs of deceleration, and see how many megapixiels it has left.
...for Battlebots Mars. I wanna see Spirit kick the piss out of Beagle. Hopefully NASA failed to mention the onbaord saw blade, and rotary bludgeoning device. w00t
Intelligence is like four wheel drive, having it just means you'll get stuck in more remote places.
The rover and its pictures are all fine and good, but for over 400 million a pop, the question remains......
How will the rover improve nerds neverending quest for more porn??
Veramocor
Mirroring content form the NASA server on *gasp* a NASA server!
Yeah, because Lord knows we use the same bandwidth in Greenbelt, Maryland that we also use in Pasadena, California.