Mars rover touches down

by **Mugzy** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:25 am

We did it!!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/03/mars.rovers/index.html

Oh, check out this very cool animation that shows the whole process from launch to getting samples!

http://largefiles.maasdigital.com/mer2003-music-640x480-1000k-cp.mov

by **AnimalCracka** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:41 am

Yeah I just saw that on CNN while ago. Pretty cool, hope it automated like it was supposed to.

by **Murgatroyd** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:49 am

Hopefully they do better this time than that whole Mars polar lander snafu.

by **Fat Bastard** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:22 am

now thats cool, cant wait to see what all they find.

by **hightimber** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:38 am

One big step. Many more big steps to go. A lot of folks will be holding their collective breath until Spirit rolls off of it's pad in about 9 days.

Go, NASA!

by **Mugzy** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:43 am

The first images!

http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040104image1.html

by **hightimber** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:02 am

Don't tease me Mugzy. Bad link!

:mad:

by **Mugzy** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:18 am

Which link? They all work for me.

by **AnimalCracka** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:23 am

Im gettin a red X for the pic you posted

by **hightimber** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:23 am

All I see is a white square with a red X. ????

I did check the properties and I'm now looking at those web pages.

by **WeSSiN** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:30 am

by **hightimber** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:36 am

An initial panorama:

by **hightimber** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:38 pm

An overhead view of Spirit sitting on its pad.

by **CapriccioSCOURG** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:44 pm

It's really cool, but it sucks that the space program has been on the back burner for so long. If we were still progressing at the pace of the Moon race we'd already have tons of probes, if not people, exploring the Jovian moons.

But I guess you can't force people to care about something, but the best way would be to try to make it a silly nationalistic thing such as the Moon race with Russia was. And with China's new interest in manned space missions it just might happen.

But this is very uplifting, especially after the flop with Beagle2 a few weeks ago.

by **Kurith** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:46 pm

I really hope they find something that hints life, that would be exciting.

As the saying goes:

"We're either alone in the universe or we are not... both ideas are overwhelming."

Mars rover touches down

Mars rover touches down

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