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Spirit Takes Snapshot of Earth
ControlFreal writes "On its 66th Sol on Mars, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has obtained its first full view of crater Bonneville. In doing so, Spirit achieved its primary travel destination, as set out in its initial itinerary. Furthermore, Spirit has now travelled more than 300 meters, thereby fulfilling its minimum mission success criteria. With this, and Opportunity halfway through its primary mission, and having discovered very strong indications of a wet Martian past, NASA has truly many an astonishing interplanetary succes story! See the overview at the Mars Rover site for more details." Another reader writes "Among the 'money-shots' from the Mars rovers would have to rank the 'pale blue dot' image released today--a view looking back towards Earth. The larger image also includes the horizon and Sun, which because the Earth is seen as an inner planet closer in towards the Sun from a martian perspective, is difficult to photograph without saturation by solar glare."
How is this insightful?
/.ers.
Because before he saw this photo and was told that dot was earth, he had a big ego and though too much of himself?
Just post a degrading comment bashing SCO/MS/RIAA and ego will be inflated right back up there. Seems to work with lots of
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
How the heck is that insightful? It's a guy, clearly off his rocker, trying to thank NASA for sending something to mars, which apparently makes the fact he never went to mars OK. Even though NASA won't read it, and looking at JPEGs of something on the net isn't the same as seeing it in person... sheesh.
Bite my shiny metal... oops... Nevermind!
Sagan's ghost writer was quite good.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.