NASA Images Old Mars Landers

Iron Sun writes "Scientists have used the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter to capture images of what they think are the Viking 1 and Mars Pathfinder craft sitting on the surface of Mars. I'll have to take their word they are the indistinct blobs in question. The probes were supposedly just below the resolution of Surveyor, but they used a new trick developed last year to squeeze more detail out of the camera. The next target will, of course, be the Spirit rover."

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Images of beagle

[nocomment]

And of course here's the images of Beagle for those who missed it.

Re:Images of beagle

[deglr6328]

I feel bad for the scientists working on Beagle 2, but this sure is fun.

They can show us this

[AtariAmarok]

They can show us this, but they still can't show us the fillagried balconies on all the ornate buildings of Cydonia, or even a more detailed image of the Face of Elvis!. Come on, where are you priorities, NASA?

Images of beagle 2

[Anonymous Coward]

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Weird...

[Henry V .009]

If those blobs at the end of the arrows are our probes, whose probes are all the rest of the blobs?

Here's an image of the beagle

[AtariAmarok]

Please click here.

WMDs

[mraymer]

You can clearly see that the blob of pixels in question is, in fact, a Martian mobile weapons lab.

I think we are a few artist renditions away from a Martian Liberation.

Re:WMDs

[iggymanz]

Marvin the Martian denied this saying "The rabbit lies. There is no Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, there never was an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator".

New trick?

[bobbozzo]

they used a new trick developed last year to squeeze more detail out of the camera

Why don't they just use the equipment all the police & spook shows/movies use to enhance crappy video so well that you can zoom into a 4-pixel person until you see the pores on their face??
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