A First Look At Meridiani Planum

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."

Comments

Good news?

[ucblockhead]

Bush is not funding NASA enough to get men to Mars. The net result of Bush's announcement will likely be to take money from basic science programs like this to fund programs that won't result in much of anything. We've already seen that Hubble will come down a year early because of Bush's Mars program, yet he wants to spend 12 billion doing what the experts say will cause at least twenty times that.

Re:Rover?

[britneys 9th husband]

I think I just realized why Bush wants to go to Mars. Someday, Guantanimo Bay is going to fill up, and we're going to need somewhere to send the "enemy combatants." Future generations won't learn about Rapy McRape, they'll learn about Nukey bin Terrorist, Howard Dean, and Bob Smith (who hurt Bush's friends^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe country by trading in his Hummer for a Prius).

Re:Bush's Fuckups

[Troed]

Thank you.

The above is exactly the reason why most civilized people around the earth despise the USA and a lot of americans today.

Click my signature, the only thing the USA managed to do with Afghanistan is making things _worse_ for the population ...