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Picture of Phoenix Lander making it's decent to Mars
This is way off topic, but maybe one of the most amazing pictures I have ever seen (without Alizée in it)
A satellite orbiting Mars was able to take this picture of the Phoenix lander on its way down to the surface. You can see the parachute and everything... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ph...HX_Lander.html |
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I don't see what's so amazing about it. It's just two white dots in a black void.
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Right on! I saw that this morning too Brad. I have NASA's Astronomy picture of the day set as my home page. Very cool stuff going on with the Mars explorations.
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Very exciting stuff in my book. But I'm a big nerd for space exploration and the like. |
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I'm the same way. Did you watch the live footage when the lander made its descent to the surface? It was pretty tense stuff...and imagine how many years/decades we could have been set back if any part of the landing sequence failed.
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im glad that people still have interest in the space program. ill be honest, when i heard that the phoenix lander landed on mars, i really didnt think too much of it. we've landed on the planet before with other rovers.
what i am excited about though is a manned mission to mars. i think that would reignite excitement that the US and world had back in th 1960's. from what i've read, we should have a manned mission by the end of the next decade. |
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why is it so dark? the camera must have a weak flash.
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naa
increase the iso settings XD
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probably made its descent during the nighttime so they wouldn't disturb the martians.
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It sure will be a very interesting mission with them landing it so close to mars north pole. Now the question is if they some type of water, liquid or solid.
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