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Mars Rover Opportunity Lands, Opens Second Front | |
2004-01-26 | |
PASADENA/MARS – With one rover now ailing on Mars, NASA scientists were thrilled when its identical twin sent dazzling and intriguing photos from the other side of the Red Planet. Images of a smooth red surface arrived at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory about four hours after the rover Opportunity bounced to a landing late Saturday some 6,600 miles from its temporarily crippled twin, Spirit. "I am flabbergasted. I am astonished. I am blown away. Opportunity has touched down in an alien and bizarre landscape," said Steven Squyres of Cornell University, the mission’s main scientist. "I still don’t know what we’re looking at." Dude, chill out JPL director Charles Elachi told ABC’s "Good Morning America" on Monday that the outcroppings of bedrock visible in the pictures were "particularly exciting." "For a geologist, this is really a gold mine because that will allow us to learn "As soon as we insert the boot disk". As of early Sunday, there were a record five spacecraft operating on or around Mars, including two NASA satellites and one from the European Space Agency orbiting the planet. Martian Defense spokesman Qaotz denied any landing had been made and threatened action against any overflights by orbiters as a "Violation of Martian Sovereignty".
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Posted by:Steve |
#11 here it is: http://www.instapundit.com/archives/013519.php |
Posted by: Anonymous 2004-1-26 2:39:24 PM |
#10 The story has been out for days that Bush's Mars plan will provide Haliburton with lucrative space building contracts. |
Posted by: Anonymous 2004-1-26 2:34:28 PM |
#9 is there oil there too? We NEED oil for the empire |
Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-26 1:32:51 PM |
#8 We creating an inner sanctum for peace loving sentinents. |
Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-26 1:19:41 PM |
#7 Look... if you make martian WMD... (neutron x-beam ray guns, and the like...) you have to deal with the consequences. We're simply fighting to make the inner planets safe for democracy. |
Posted by: ----------<<<<- 2004-1-26 1:06:32 PM |
#6 END U.S. IMPERIALISM AND AGGRESSION ON MARS! THOUSANDS OF MARTIAN CIVILIANS HAVE DIED AS A RESULT OF U.S. BOMBING OF CYDONIA! |
Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-26 12:40:09 PM |
#5 how long till the lefty loons start saying were tryimg to take over the galaxy and steal its oil?I say build a constellation of space based lasers just to piss them off |
Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-26 12:05:08 PM |
#4 "We are now working on the basis that this is a corrupt system and the only way we might resurrect it is to send such a command and completely reload the software, if it's still alive," Pillinger said at a news conference in London. "Of course, that is a very dangerous command to send because if the thing is AWOL, or even if it's there, it may never respond to it, so it's pretty much a last resort," he added. How "dangerous" could it be? The thing isn't responding anyway, so what're the alternatives? It's sink-or-swim time. |
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-26 12:03:21 PM |
#3 Just send the rover from Opportunity out on service calls to the other two probes. (Yeah, it doesn't have the range. What a pity!) |
Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-1-26 11:53:51 AM |
#2 As Europe's first Mars probe remained stubbornly silent, British scientists announced a "last resort" plan Monday of switching off the missing Beagle 2's coColin Pillinger, lead scientist on the Beagle 2 program, said Mars Express passed over the probe's landing site twice over the weekend, but nothing was heard. Pillinger said his team would ask NASA to send a command from its Mars Odyssey orbiter on Tuesday to tell Beagle 2 to switch off its own computer and reload its software. "We are now working on the basis that this is a corrupt system and the only way we might resurrect it is to send such a command and completely reload the software, if it's still alive," Pillinger said at a news conference in London. "Of course, that is a very dangerous command to send because if the thing is AWOL, or even if it's there, it may never respond to it, so it's pretty much a last resort," he added. Hundreds of high paid scientists, and all you come up with is Ctrl - Alt - Delete? |
Posted by: Steve 2004-1-26 11:16:34 AM |
#1 "I am flabbergasted. I am astonished. I am blown away. Opportunity has touched down in an alien and bizarre landscape," said Steven Squyres of Cornell University, the mission?s main scientist. "I still don?t know what we?re looking at." Um...Mars, sir. Mike |
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-1-26 11:12:22 AM |