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A First Look At Meridiani Planum

Posted by timothy on from the tastes-like-mordor dept.

loconet writes "After Opportunity 's successful landing on mars , NASA has recieved the first images showing the landing site revealing a surreal, dark landscape unlike any ever seen before on Mars. The terrain is darker than at any previous Mars landing site and has the first accessible bedrock outcropping ever seen on Mars. The outcropping immediately became a candidate target for the rover to visit and examine up close."

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  1. Well done NASA! by Stween · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's fantastic to see that both Rover's have now landed successfully on Mars (with Spirit to become operational again soon :) ).

    This, that Colin Pillinger is discussing sending more Beagle II probes up to search for signs of life, and that President Bush has announced man will set foot on Mars within my lifetime, can only be considered good news :)

  2. Light story on the solar cells by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I noticed this story Mars Solar Photovoltaics Offer Earthly Hope on how the work into making solar panels for space is going to pay off on Earth.

    Point green types who are anti-space at this. After all, it's not like money spent on space was shoveled into rockets and fired to Mars. (No comment on the proposed manned mission.) Think of all the work on light-weight instruments that perform under hostile conditions--Turn them around and monitor the environment on Earth. We'd better learn how other planets work, because this one didn't come with a man page!

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  3. QuickTime VR by Trillan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not exactly happy with how this turned out... but be kind, it's my first time ever using the QTVR tools. :)

    Here.

    It's on .mac, so it will probably be overwhelmed soon enough. :( Enjoy.