[NGTM-1R]

He should.

He should also have bet on the skycrane failing instead if he was smart, not that it would have helped.

[Rodo]

****, awesome picture is awesome.

[Mongoose]

Anyone knows when are we getting hi-rez color images from the surface?, checked the calendar but it's empty and could not find an article mentioning that so far, nasa's site is kinda difficult to navigate.

From what I've heard, it'll be up to a week until all of the initial tests are done, and they're satisfied enough with the vehicle's performance to unfurl the camera mast and start taking the pretty pictures.

[Retsof]

Did anyone else see the guy with long gray hair who kept taking pics with his phone?

[BloodEagle]

Did anyone else see the guy with long gray hair who kept taking pics with his phone?

The ____ is a spy!

[BlueFlames]

Did anyone else see the guy with long gray hair who kept taking pics with his phone?

The ____ is a spy!

And remember:  If he falls over after the first shot, he's probably a dead ringer, so keep spraying the area with bullets.

[Herra Tohtori]

Did anyone else see the guy with long gray hair who kept taking pics with his phone?

Time traveler!

[FreeSpaceFreak]

BACK TO TOPIC

Mike Malin, the principal investigator on Mardi (Mars Descent Imager), has released a detailed view taken of the heatshield as it fell away from the rover's capsule during Monday's entry descent and landing (EDL).



Eventually hundreds of Mardi pictures will be run together to make a movie of the descent.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19186237

That vid is gonna be awesome.

[watsisname]

Hell yes

[mjn.mixael]

Now this is sexy.

[Retsof]

Is that true color?  ...I've lived in places that looked like that...

[watsisname]

Yep, true color.  Some parts of Earth look a lot like Mars.  

Speaking of which:
Earth or Mars?

IT'S A CONSPIRACY, I TELL YA

[Herra Tohtori]

The Jundland wastes are not to be traveled lightly.

I think we better get indoors. The Sand People are easily startled but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers.

[FireSpawn]

The Jundland wastes are not to be traveled lightly.

I think we better get indoors. The Sand People are easily startled but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers.

[mjn.mixael]

Hi res Mars rocks!



With a good quote from Wil Wheaton...

"I've been looking at this picture all morning, and I can't stop. It inspires me. I know it's "just" a bunch of rocks and dirt, but it's in high definition, in colour, and on the surface of Mars. Thank you, NASA and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory for reminding us humans that we're capable of doing truly incredible things.

And for the science. Thank you for the science.

...SCIENCE!"

[watsisname]

I've gazed at I-don't-even-know how many photos from the surface of Mars, but there really is something strangely alluring about that high-definition one.  Almost like you could just reach down and pick up some of those rocks, feel the dust in your hands.  And it seems like it might as well be a random photo of some typical boring place here on earth, but no, it's not -- it's the surface of a totally different world.  Amazing.

[Mefustae]

I've gazed at I-don't-even-know how many photos from the surface of Mars, but there really is something strangely alluring about that high-definition one.  Almost like you could just reach down and pick up some of those rocks, feel the dust in your hands.  And it seems like it might as well be a random photo of some typical boring place here on earth, but no, it's not -- it's the surface of a totally different world.  Amazing.

Couldn't have said it better, myself.

I just love that picture up there. An alien landscape, juxtaposed with the very human construction of the wheel. I know we're all kinds of ****ed up as a species, but it's seeing things like this that really impress upon me how goddamned wondrous we can be. It's another bloody planet! How can anyone not be utterly amazed by this!

[FireSpawn]

I'm still just seeing so much red sand and stone. I will only be impressed when we send a manned mission to Mars along with a murderous robot and exploding green bugs.

[Retsof]

I'm still just seeing so much red sand and stone. I will only be impressed when we send a manned mission to Mars along with a murderous robot and exploding green bugs.

... that was a weird movie...

[StarSlayer]

X-COM's Mars Operation is go. The Tank/Laser has landed.

Spoonzer Elite, born to compete, never retreat.