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Mars Express Captures Phobos and Deimos
westtxfun writes "The Mars Express Orbiter captured a very cool movie of Phobos and Deimos on Nov 5. Besides the 'wow factor,' the images will be used to refine models of the moons' orbits. The orbiter has also captured high resolution images of Phobos back in July. 'The images were acquired with the Super Resolution Channel (SRC) of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). The camera took 130 images of the moons on 5 November at 9:14 CET in a span of 1.5 minutes at intervals of 1s, speeding up to 0.5-s intervals toward the end. The image resolution is 110 m/pixel for Phobos and 240 m/pixel for Deimos — Deimos was more than twice as far from the camera. '"
Europe is gaining on us in boweletology! We must give laxatives to our school children before we fall too far behind!
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So then Viking 1 and 2 were just built by Chuck Norris, so they'd be able to rocket through space and land on Mars with zero deacceleration and function perfectly and do good science. Back in the 1970s. Before the "airbag" invention used on the pathfinder mission.
p.s. you're a fucking idiot, i hope your account gets banned and you die a horrible death. at least reference random wikipedia articles so it looks like you know what you're BSing about. even a cursory glance at previous mars missions would have told you your assumptions are completely wrong. eat shit and die, and don't come back until you're willing to backup your shitty posts without at least negligible proof that you're not talking out of your ass.
here's your proof that you're wrong btw (note both parachute and thrusters were used, successfully, almost forty years ago) http://www.solarviews.com/eng/viking.htm
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When I was there, the photographs that went through me were sanitized so people wouldn't get ideas about unexplained objects that shouldn't be in the photograph. Who knows what was seen before they filtered these? Don't believe what you see, because it's just like the moon landing; there is so much happening in the original pictures they took that they simply can't show them, so they erect a sterile stage in a desert to re-invent something that will only pass for visual forensic standards back in the 1970's and now it's been picked apart better than a Smashing Pumpkins video or Rammstein Amerika.
Oh and by the way, Obama forecasts the civil side of the economy as $15 trillion deficit but none will hear about the military side of the economy already spending $60 trillion.