SUBJECT: MARS ROVER
SOURCE: JUAN WILSON juanwilson@mac.com
POSTED: 22 JANUARY 2004 - 1:30pm HST
NASA/JPL Loses Contact with Mars Rover "Spirit"
NASA worries that loss of contact with "Spirit" is fatal problem. Are we sure we want to spend a few hundred-billion dollars to send a live person there? SUBJECT: MARS ROVER SOURCE: JUAN WILSON juanwilson@mac.com POSTED: 8 JANUARY 2004 - 12:30am HST What we are seeing on Mars
This is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It is the highest resolution image ever taken on the surface of another planet. After seeing Mars you'll agree... Lucky you live Kauai!
Visit the Mars Rover Website to find out why These are stills images from animations of the Rover Spirit as it might have landed on Mars January 3rd, 2004. These animations are available from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They were done for Cornell University in 2002 by Dan Maas with Steve Squyres as technical consultant. The current Mars flights are a technical achievement, however those old enough to remember the heady days of the Apollo Program that took us to the Moon, propably also remember that the planning then was to have a man on Mars by 1990. But President Nixon gutted the space program and chose to focus NASA on the flawed Shuttle Program, thus giving up outer space as a place for manned exploration.
On January 24th, at midnight, another identical Rover named Opportunity is scheduled to land on the opposite side of Mars. Unfortuneately, there is still no signal from the European Space Agency's Beagle2 landing attempt. |
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