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One Year on Mars

Posted by michael on from the tempus-fugit dept.

RetroGeek writes "It has been almost a full year for the Mars rovers. NASA has created a flashback of rover images and information. You can use either HTML or Flash (it is the best use of the technology I have seen). There is even a movie taken from the hazard avoidance camera showing the full year of travel."

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  1. Re:Quoth TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    We could all switch to the Darian calendar

  2. Science over everything by Pecisk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think NASA rovers was one of the rare things in 2004 which united whole world. They were there for purerly scientific reasons, they did what they had been sent to do, even more - they continue to rock on and provide more and more details, overloading NASA scientists with work for years.

    I see it as victory of science over money, politics, everything which seperate us. Because I think nothing beat those news that we discovered that Mars once definetly has water. So... there should be living organisms on other planets. There could be something like us, humans.

    I think nothing beats that feeling when science and common sence works for whole humanity.

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  3. Wow, I didn't realize they were so BIG by melted · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For some reason I thought the rovers were MUCH smaller than they really are. Heck, this thing is bigger than the lunar "automobile" (the copy of it I've seen in Boeing museum).

  4. Web Hits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    9.1 Billion web hits!

  5. Premature? by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Spirit landed in early January and Opportunity in late January. If something goes wrong between now and then, the "Year on Mars" campaign will have egg all over it.

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  6. Re:PBS special next Tuesday by captaineo · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Those of us in the U.S. may be interested in the Welcome to Mars tht will be broadcast next Tuesday, January 4th, on Nova.

    (shameless plug)
    which includes about 5 minutes of new computer animation by your truly* :). The new shots of the rovers on Mars make use of actual terrain data; when you see the CG rovers they are shown in exactly the real environments down to the level of individual rocks. The lighting is also improved quite a bit over our previous work.

    Tuesday at 8PM on your local PBS station. Some will follow it with a repeat of Mars, Dead or Alive, last year's pre-launch show.

    * Props to assistant 3D modeler John Niehuss and software consultant Justin Wick (who happens to be a Slashdot reader too).