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Mars Express 3D Image Released
zoney_ie writes "As reported in BBC News Online, ESA (European Space Agency) have released an image of the surface of Mars, captured in 3D and full colour. Europe's Mars Express orbiter has been taking pictures of the Martian surface at down to 10m resolution. The mission will result in Mars being more carefully mapped than Earth has been to date! Full size image available on ESA's Mars Express Website."
The mission will result in Mars being more carefully mapped than Earth has been to date!
"You never finish anything! Why don't you go and finish the Earth before you go running off to map some other silly planet?"
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Spot the beagle !
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
In addition to the scientific value, that image makes terrific wallpaper, and it is scaled perfectly for my monitor.
They need to get this thing over that so-called face. This clearly has the resolution to reveal the truth that it's probably a butt.
did anyone else notice the part in the ESA disclaimer about if the picture contained any recognizable individual.... wonder what they know about mars that we don't....
Wow... can't believe mods find my post +5 interesting... it's so easy to get modded up on slashdot when you're from NASA :)
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Hmm... maybe NASA faked my karma... tinfoil hat people, maybe you can explain?
Cheers,
Justin Wick
"produce a map of the mineral composition of the surface at 100 m resolution"
Do you suppose we'll pretend to offer democracy to Mars as we steal their mineral resources? I haven't heard anything about Martian weapons of mass destruction yet, but that could change. It would be a heck of a sight easier to get the bill through congress if the administration would just fake an attack by a Martian gunboat. Maybe that's why all these craft keep "disappearing." Somewhere down the line we declare that they have all been destroyed by Martian terrorists.
Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus.
Move over, Scorched Earth, time for Scorched Mars!
now if you could just send us a video of your impression of Darth Maul's light saber technique, we could really finish this thread off right.
Well, now we know why Beagle 2 didn't survive...E MPM75V9ED_1.html
http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/S
Hmm.. Mars = big. Rez 10m of mars... Fullsize pictures. "Calling ISP to ask for bandwidth"...
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If we find life on Mars, we will never be able to colonise it. Expanding the human experience beyond the shores, the gravity well of this puny Earth requires a virgin territory. But if Mars is soiled with life, we cannot infect it with out own, for that would be interstellar ecocide.
The children are crying, they wail because with every piece of evidence that Mars has life, the long term survival of the Human race gets that bit slimmer. We need room to grow. We need to move off this poisoned planet. But the one save heavenly haven that awaits us is already taken.
Whatever can we do now? What happens when the light goes out?
Seems just like Earth from 30k ft, just with less assholes.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
Sure, they were. The dinos settled Earth decided to abstain from technology, much like the Amish/Mennonites. The ones that settled Mars were the ones that kept the technology, which they eventually used in a massive orgy of self destruction millenia ago.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
It's true! A guy in a tin foil hat told me. No matter where you go, they can watch you through their satellites. Even inside. They need that kind of accuracy to target the mind control rays.
I read the internet for the articles.