― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link
Nice to hear some really good news for once.
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:27 (twenty years ago) link
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
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
― bnw (bnw), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:41 (twenty years ago) link
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
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
― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:34 (twenty years ago) link
― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago) link
― 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
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago) link
― badgerminor (badgerminor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago) link
― badgerminor (badgerminor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago) link
OMG, DINOSAURS ON MARS!!!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:29 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:31 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 06:01 (twenty years ago) link
Or it could be a bigger shell.
― badgerminor (badgerminor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago) link
― badgerminor (badgerminor), Saturday, 7 February 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link
― maypang (maypang), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link
― badgerminor (badgerminor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link
― badgerminor (badgerminor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link
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
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
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― louise jaguar (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― John Justen, the tap-dancing spirochete in your zesty chicken fingers. (johnjust, Wednesday, 4 October 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Thursday, 5 October 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link