300 million miles?!? That's pretty far away. Nice shot! And from the reports of the landing it sounds like it was nothing but net.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 04, 2004 01:40 AM: Message edited by: JaceSan ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Comic sans ms, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3359971.stmHow do Spirit and Opportunity differ from the first Mars rover?
They are much larger and much more capable. The rover that flew to Mars in 1996-7 on the Mars Pathfinder mission was really just an engineering demonstration vehicle; it didn't have much of a science payload on it or the capability to go very far from its lander. It never got more than about 10 or 20 metres away from its lander.
This time we are flying a much, much larger vehicle. It's more than 180 kg in weight. It's able to travel tens of metres in a day across the Martian surface and it carries an entire suite of scientific instruments with it. It's a real robotic explorer.
300 million miles?!? That's pretty far away. Nice shot! And from the reports of the landing it sounds like it was nothing but net.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 04, 2004 01:40 AM: Message edited by: JaceSan ]</font>
Heh. It's already sent back photos. Step off NASA. Let's get that thing rolling. I bet the guys there are fighting over who gets the first chance to drive the thing.
Damn. Msn was showing live footage, but it quit.
I bet Jax was tearing up at the first sight of his home in years...
Well, there goes the search for *intelligent* life...
And here I am without my 3d glasses. You'd think that with the technology they used to get the thing there we wouldn't have to resort to using cheesy 60's props to view the damn pictures. o_0
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 05, 2004 09:49 PM: Message edited by: JaceSan ]</font>
I haven't seen the pics. Are they using the red/blue sort or the polarizing sort of 3D?
The red/blue.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/0...ers/index.html
I think they're supposed to have more pics later today. The funny thing is, I might have some glasses stashed in a Time magazine from when the Sojourner landed there 7 years ago.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/image...ature_107.html
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 06, 2004 01:26 PM: Message edited by: JaceSan ]</font>
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