Spirit and Opportunity...on MARS! (BIG HONKING PICS)

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http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/n/001/1N128286488EDN0000P1503L0M1.JPG

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 25 January 2004 10:04 (twenty years ago) link

! Man, them's crazy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040125/capt.ny10901251210.mars_rovers_ny109.jpg

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

That shot is just so beautiful. I've loved it since I first got a look last night.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago) link

I think Opportunity got the prettier side of Mars.

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

Definitely got the gothier side.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

Well, the word is.. Opportunity landed inside an actual impact crater, as opposed to high hopes that it would at least land near enough to drive over to a crater.

Nice to hear some really good news for once.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:27 (twenty years ago) link

OK, so my Martian question.

Demos? Phobos? These are the two tiny moons of Mars that are basically captured asteroids. Phobos is about 99% done with its life, and it expected to crash into the Martian surface in the near cosmic future (granted, "the near cosmic future" is at the very least long long after we are all dead), due to basic physics/gravity.

What's the story with shots of these little buggers? Do they look huge in the sky despite being only 5 to 10 kilometers big?

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:31 (twenty years ago) link

Deimos

Phobos

"Phobos is doomed.

The future of Phobos is bleak. Gravitational forces are pulling Phobos closer and closer to Mars at a current rate of 1.8 meters per century.

In around 50 million years, Phobos faces one of two fates. It'll either crash on to the surface of Mars, or more likely it'll break up into a ring, like the ones around Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus."

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:34 (twenty years ago) link

I love how 50 million years is a bleak future.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:37 (twenty years ago) link

It gives that moon a chance to TURN ITS LIFE AROUND. It's not too late!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:41 (twenty years ago) link

Another happy day in a crater:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040126a/MERB_Sol1_Postcard-B002R1_br2.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago) link

Spirit lives!

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040128a/sol25-flhaz.jpg

And Opportunity's spot is now the Challenger Memorial Station, which is most fitting (especially given it's the 18th anniversary of that disaster).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:30 (twenty years ago) link

I'm so over that one rock.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link

There will be other rocks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:34 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, but I bet they're all the same.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago) link

wrong - the fifth one will seal our doom

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:57 (twenty years ago) link

:-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago) link

OH DEAR GOD! HOAGLAND WAS RI-

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago) link

could it be fragments of shells?

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago) link

and if that's not fringe enough for you.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago) link

That first link: WOW!
That second link: hahahahaha, right

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

I go on those conspiracy/ufo sites all the time, they're a lot of fun.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago) link

The picture on badgerminor's second link looks sort of like a triceratops skull.

OMG, DINOSAURS ON MARS!!!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago) link

Yay aliens! I do love them images in the first photo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:29 (twenty years ago) link

actually the second link pics looks like used piece of tissue molded into a peace sign, and an ivory dagger, respectively..

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago) link

Fucking stoners.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:31 (twenty years ago) link

dude. Mars is trippy.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040204a/hematite_new-B011R1_br2.jpg

talk about beyond the infinite, whoa.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 February 2004 06:01 (twenty years ago) link

All we need is that fish swimming around the hills.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 06:01 (twenty years ago) link

i thought the second photo was a bunny rabbit. If it's anything at all, it could be something that fell off the lander, when the parachute was deployed.

Or it could be a bigger shell.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago) link

it looks like the weird object isn't kleenex, but a strange rock after all. The rover has even picked it up.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Saturday, 7 February 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Pretty blue sunset.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago) link

Oh my gosh, that's nice.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

Pfft. Obviously just eye-candy to try and make us forget that they still haven't found anything cool yet.

― maypang (maypang), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

"Significant Findings" at 2pm EST today! Hurrah!

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

Yep. Mars rocks once 'water drenched'.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

i want them just to admit that there are microbes there right now. As excited as the man was, i was let down.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

I am jealous of those people who will be alive when we do find life.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

i think that's right now, but intelligent life? Yeah, i'm jealous too, even if it somehow turned out to be bad news.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

Right now? There's a pretty large gap b/n "water was here" and "life is here." Still, this is a pretty significant first step.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

Been too goddamn long for an update here, and lord knows that both rovers have been kicking ass.

Spirit has roved more than 3 kilometers now, a ridiculously huge amount:

http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040610a/2NN153ILF65CYL00P1826L000M1-A154R1_br.jpg

Opportunity, meanwhile, is about to explore the Endurance depression/crater in more detail:

http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040608a/06-SS-05-target-B133R1_br2.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

Over two years since I properly touched this thread and good grief! Most successful planetary mission ever in terms of life expentancy vs. actual days and work done, hands down.

As this Washington Post story summarizes, Opportunity is about to hit the Victoria Crater, and that's some big news right there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

They couldn't give us one picture of a martian?

― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

this is great

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Just amazing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

looks very calm. *crawls in and goes to sleep*

― louise jaguar (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.crownsliquor.com/images/corona_beach.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.radcity.net/3005/864288.gif

― John Justen, the tap-dancing spirochete in your zesty chicken fingers. (johnjust, Wednesday, 4 October 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The place looks like it's crawling with Womp Rats.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Thursday, 5 October 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

They're not much bigger than two meters...

Even cooler, in ways -- the aeriel shot:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20061006c/rover-color-close-up2-annot_br.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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