Posted by
michael
on from the risky-business dept.
EngrBohn writes "NASA has named the Mars Spirit landing site the 'Columbia Memorial Station'. They've obviously been planning this, as there's even a plaque at the CMS."
happy it didn't auger
by
bandy
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Consider the mega-bummer had they pre-announced and it had ended up augering into Mars like the last probe did.
Bets on whether or not there's a plaque on Opportunity as well?
-- "You might as well get your son a ticket to hell as give him a five string
banjo." -unknown minister
On a related note, a question....
by
KarMann
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I first noticed these jack-o'-lantern faces on the propellant tanks of the cruise stage while taking a look at the craft with Celestia, and at first I was thinking it was just some humour on the part of the person creating the skin for Celestia. But then I saw the picture linked to above, and obviously it wasn't just the programmer having a lark. I haven't been able to find anything on the Web about who came up with the idea, and why, though. I've developed a pet theory of my own, which would be that they needed a certain amount of dark surface on the gold-foil-wrapped tanks to maintain the proper thermal balance, and decided to do something more catchy than just a big bulls-eye dot on them or something like that.
Anyway, anybody know just what the real story is, and whodunnit?
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Consider the mega-bummer had they pre-announced and it had ended up augering into Mars like the last probe did.
Bets on whether or not there's a plaque on Opportunity as well?
"You might as well get your son a ticket to hell as give him a five string banjo." -unknown minister
I first noticed these jack-o'-lantern faces on the propellant tanks of the cruise stage while taking a look at the craft with Celestia, and at first I was thinking it was just some humour on the part of the person creating the skin for Celestia. But then I saw the picture linked to above, and obviously it wasn't just the programmer having a lark. I haven't been able to find anything on the Web about who came up with the idea, and why, though. I've developed a pet theory of my own, which would be that they needed a certain amount of dark surface on the gold-foil-wrapped tanks to maintain the proper thermal balance, and decided to do something more catchy than just a big bulls-eye dot on them or something like that.
Anyway, anybody know just what the real story is, and whodunnit?
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