AMERICAblog: The Phoenix is on Mars and its sending back images
dommyluc
· 1 year ago
I would be excited about this but I really can't seem to arouse any enthusiasm in myself until all of the delegates from MI and FL are seated. Oh, and if any Martians make remarks about the assassination of a black presidential candidate, it's Obama's fault. -HRC (and the "C" ain't for Clinton anymore, believe me!)
We went to Mars, not because it is easy, but because it is hard. Someday, we will have a visionary President who will help fix the mess we are in now, and help us set our sights on the stars once again. It was 47 years ago. Imagine what we could have accomplished if we had kept our eyes on the prize of space travel.
doug
· 1 year ago
Great! Now can see what planet earth will look like once humans have destroyed it.
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
So how long before someone claims these pictures were shot in Utah?
Also, it looks like a nice place for the Clintons to go and spend their retirement years.
KISSman
· 1 year ago
I love this stuff -- although I thought they were aiming for the area with ice. Hmmm... looks like the same red dirt found everywhere else.
LeslieB
· 1 year ago
They're near the north pole. A robotic arm is going to start digging for evidence of liquid water.
devis1
· 1 year ago
Very cool--watching it on TV now. I guess that's why I continue to pay my exhorbitant cable bill every month--to get the NASA channel!
devis1
· 1 year ago
Ignorant question--what ice? I guess H20 isn't only way to get ice?? Do you know kissman?
BarrieT
· 1 year ago
I think they are expecting water ice just under the surface. They are going to dig for it with a robot arm.
devis1
· 1 year ago
I'm watching the science channel now and they're saying they want to follow the water. Thanks.
LeslieB
· 1 year ago
Two years ago, the European Space Agency caught evidence of water ice at the Martian north pole. See images here.
devis1
· 1 year ago
Amazing. Thanks. Didn't know CO2 formed ice either.
domino
· 1 year ago
Dry Ice is frozen CO2.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
meanwhile back on earth...
Oil prices supported above $132 AP - 5 minutes ago
LeslieB
· 1 year ago
The Phoenix Mars mission is really exciting! After all the failures and mishaps, so glad the probe landed safely. Next up: digging down about three feet to find water. The Phoenix has these little ovens on board, they're tiny...about the size of a pen cartridge and can only be used once. But the plan is to dig up the Martian soil and cook the samples to test for water. Where there's water, there may be life. It's believed Mars was a water world while Earth was still hot lava, some 3.8 billion years ago give or take.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Hey, that's just a photo of some guy's farm in western Oklahoma!
domino
· 1 year ago
The Space program has always made me proud of my country. To land on Mars and to perform experiments astounds me and makes me proud.
That said, I am pretty sure that the Martians are smart enough to stay out of the pictures that are taken by the Phoenix cameras.
devis1
· 1 year ago
Uh oh, the show now on the Science Channel--'Roving Mars' is produced by Walt Disney Pictures.
Big YAWN here. Oh look, more pictures of lifeless rock. What a surprise. As a 30 year science fiction fan I'm surprised only by my lack of interest. Space exploration and colonisation by humans is now pure myth. We can't even tell our children that we are maintaining the ecosystem here on Earth.
Look well at the pictures. That's our future. Lifeless rock.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
I find all this exciting. But will Mars ever be inhabitable? I don't think so. This mission is to try to find "water" and use that info to assess how earth evolved into a water based planet and how we might eventually become like Mars.
Sometimes you do have to be a rocket scientist (among others).
ClayPotts
· 1 year ago
There is evidence that Mars lost much of its magnetic field due to cooling of the planetary core. It is the magnetic field that protects a planet from solar winds/flares. Without the strong magnetic field, most of the Mars atmosphere was simply blown away by the sun. Although the waning magnetic field on Earth is probably due to an impending pole flip, it would probably be wise to heed the advice of Stephen Hawking and colonize other worlds. The damage brought about by Republican policies alone is reason enough to do so.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Wonderful! The Maritan lander that crashed back in 1999 was cursed with technicians who couldn't put it together. Some were using metrics, others inches, and so the engines were shut off prematurely because in inches they were on the ground and in metrics not so. And so we have another triumph of communication after many rounds of squabble and confusion. Thus NASA. Is it any wonder not much of anybody who watches closely is all that enthused about a space program that is mostly boondoggle?
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
For a minute there I though I saw an empty coke can lying there.
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
What was the price of oil when Phoenix left the Earth? Just curious.
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Paste this into Windows Media Player for best live full-screen viewing.
http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx
Also, it looks like a nice place for the Clintons to go and spend their retirement years.
Oil prices supported above $132 AP - 5 minutes ago
That said, I am pretty sure that the Martians are smart enough to stay out of the pictures that are taken by the Phoenix cameras.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoidJVAMAVE&feat...
Look well at the pictures. That's our future. Lifeless rock.
Sometimes you do have to be a rocket scientist (among others).
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/05/26/sc...
And a 2MB movie of a comet (actually a cometary fragment) impacting on the sun 3 days ago (comet enters from bottom center):
http://spaceweather.com/swpod2008/25may08/c2_an...