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1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample.
click to playGood point.
3 FaversShareViewed: 14 TimesQuoted: These creatures set records for surviving in the most inhospitable places on Earth – their existence bodes well for finding alien life
An amazing image of the Mars Phoenix descending under parachute to the Martian surface. No, it did not land IN this massive crater - it's in the far background.
The picture was taken via telescope from a satellite orbiting Mars!
1 FaverShareViewed: 10 TimesReally good video showing the landing sequence for today's Mars landing. Of special interest, the parachute only slows the landing vehicle down to 120 mph. So, 30 seconds from landing, it releases from the parachute, and then lands under the control of pulse rockets that slow it down to a 5 mph descent rate.
1 FaverShareViewed: 23 TimesQuoted: Phoenix Mission: A new space explorer is waiting in the wings and ready to take center stage: the Mars lander called Phoenix. Set for launch aboard a Delta II rocket, Phoenix's assignment is to dig through the Martian soil and ice in the arctic region and use its onboard scientific instruments to analyze the samples it retrieves.
An even better video of the whole mission. Great landing sequence (no dialog).
2 FaversShareViewed: 19 TimesQuoted: Phoenix Mission: A new space explorer is waiting in the wings and ready to take center stage: the Mars lander called Phoenix. Set for launch aboard a Delta II rocket, Phoenix's assignment is to dig through the Martian soil and ice in the arctic region and use its onboard scientific instruments to analyze the samples it retrieves.
This Sunday, the Museum of Flight is showing live coverage the Phoenix Mars Lander landing on Mars (scheduled for Sunday at 4:36pm - the landing confirmation signals will arrive at 4:53pm!).
First images will arrive at 6:30.
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Sunday, May 25, 2008, 3 – 7pm
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3:45 pm: NASA-TV provides live coverage from JPL
4:53 pm: Signals arrive on Earth confirming the landing
5:45 pm: A panel of local experts will discuss the Phoenix Mission
6:30 pm: The first pictures from Mars on NASA-TV
Argh, why can't this be real :( Cool site though and cute how it links into Google Mars
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The moon shots that researchers and the public have gazed at over the years are mainly copies--or copies of copies--that don't match the originals in clarity, color, or contrast.
But at last, we all will get to see the originals. Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, the Lunar and Planetary Institute, and NASA are posting high-resolution scans of the 35,000 photos from the Apollo missions--from film that has been chilling out in a freezer in Houston, Texas, for more than 30 years.
The digitized images will enable researchers to draft more precise topographic maps of the lunar surface, for example, and to evaluate possible landing sites for future moon missions, says geologist Mark Robinson of ASU. The archive is just gearing up but will have several hundred images by next month.
Volume 317, Number 5840, Issue of 17 August 2007
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