Those little guys refuse to quit and have been bringing us some of the best data about the surface of the Red Planet for half a decade now and are still going strong.
By its second Martian anniversary (almost 5 years), Spirit had traveled just shy of a whopping 5 miles on Mars.
There is something so adorably Johnny Number 5 about these guys.
(The caption for this photo reads "An artist's concept of the Mars rover Spirit approaching an interesting rock." I want to see more of this allegedly interesting rock.)
Those little guys refuse to quit and have been bringing us some of the best data about the surface of the Red Planet for half a decade now and are still going strong.
the latest rover is not expected to be heard from again, correct?
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
edited January 2009
Phoenix lander? Yeah, contacts been lost - it's gone into the polar winter and the solar panels probably aren't charging the power cells enough to get a signal. It isn't really designed or expected to survive the harsh environment that the martian winter represents. There's a chance it'll come back online sometime around October, but it's a real long shot.
It was a lander, and it was not expected to last throughout the winter.
It actually made it a lot longer than expected, and the Mars Orbiter used it's HIRISE camera the other day to take a picture of it, and it's not covered in ice yet. It's good to see the kid down there still.
Those little guys refuse to quit and have been bringing us some of the best data about the surface of the Red Planet for half a decade now and are still going strong.
Those things are awesome.
Driven a total of 25km between them.
Sent back 38gb of data.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
edited January 2009
Alright, here's some pics I took while I was chillin' around Hawaii last year.
Scorpio/Jupiter/Galactic core from Mauna Kea
Same, zoomed in. Jupiter is the big bright thing.
My favourite, taken from the golf course at the resort I was staying at, showing more or less the same part of the sky, but with more interesting foreground.
Click for huge. No seriously. It's like 12 times better.
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
edited January 2009
When I was in the infantry, during field training we'd frequently be stuck out in the middle of nowhere in the woods or on some expansive plains region with no cover to sleep under at night. And everyone takes a turn pulling guard during the night. We all had night vision goggles.
On a clear night you could put the goggles on and see thousands more stars than with the naked eye, and see small blotches or swirls in the sky that you realize are nebulae and galaxies. AWESOME
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BusterKNegativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered Userregular
edited January 2009
Really great pics Fishman
I remember going up to Griffith Observatory a few years ago to look at Mars
It was so close you could see the ice caps through a telescope
Small as it was there's no way a photograph can replace seeing with your own eyes
FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
edited January 2009
I pretty much lucked out with that last one. We were in a remote part of big island, and our resort complex was the only thing for miles. That said, it was lit up like a mother fuck.
So to get some star shots, I wandered off into the pitch black darkness of the golf course, stumbling around on the uneven tee for the 10 hole, unable to see a goddamn thing with my tripod and $2000 dollars worth of camera equipment.
So I'm pretty much guessing what's going on in my shot, because I can't see anything when I look through the view finder, so I take a few short exposures to try and get my bearings of what I'm shooting at then just click 'go for it'.
I honestly had no idea that I would pick up as much light pollution from the resort as I did, or that it would light up the palms and compose my shot so nicely.
But I was looking at my little screen at the results and was all like 'fuck me' when this thing popped up.
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Why thank you!
But damn, no <3s for the federal budget. It would be so awesome if NASA got 1.5%.
it was at the american museum of natural history and I should have pm'd you, but I thought you were still out of town on break
goddammit i could have taken the traaaain
else i will menacingly wag my finger at you
heads up for the next one: 20 February, Joseph Patterson from Columbia is lecturing on "The Center for Backyard Astrophysics"
and the best one: 13 March, Neil de Grasse Tyson from the Hayden Planetarium is lecturing on "The Rise and Fall of Pluto -- Witness to Demotion"
gonna bring a friend too, i just got her a telescope and she's really digging it (she wanted to do astronomy but is doing applied math instead)
this spring we should all meet up for one of their weekend sky watches
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/299035main_Bonestell_1772A_anno-br.jpg
(Huge panorama of the area near the landing site)
Those little guys refuse to quit and have been bringing us some of the best data about the surface of the Red Planet for half a decade now and are still going strong.
There is something so adorably Johnny Number 5 about these guys.
(The caption for this photo reads "An artist's concept of the Mars rover Spirit approaching an interesting rock." I want to see more of this allegedly interesting rock.)
gravity waves
Those things are awesome.
It was a lander, and it was not expected to last throughout the winter.
It actually made it a lot longer than expected, and the Mars Orbiter used it's HIRISE camera the other day to take a picture of it, and it's not covered in ice yet. It's good to see the kid down there still.
why is this so cute
Because it looks like present day Wall-E and EVE.
Driven a total of 25km between them.
Sent back 38gb of data.
Scorpio/Jupiter/Galactic core from Mauna Kea
Same, zoomed in. Jupiter is the big bright thing.
My favourite, taken from the golf course at the resort I was staying at, showing more or less the same part of the sky, but with more interesting foreground.
Click for huge. No seriously. It's like 12 times better.
On a clear night you could put the goggles on and see thousands more stars than with the naked eye, and see small blotches or swirls in the sky that you realize are nebulae and galaxies. AWESOME
I remember going up to Griffith Observatory a few years ago to look at Mars
It was so close you could see the ice caps through a telescope
Small as it was there's no way a photograph can replace seeing with your own eyes
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The latter's the one on our national flag, dude.
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I'm honestly not sure how often I headed off in that direction after a party.
Try asking your countrymen what their national anthem is
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I agree. Fuck me I need to move out of the city.
No, it's a camera.
That's a 30 second exposure using a Sony a350 with a Carl Zeiss 16-80 lens.
So to get some star shots, I wandered off into the pitch black darkness of the golf course, stumbling around on the uneven tee for the 10 hole, unable to see a goddamn thing with my tripod and $2000 dollars worth of camera equipment.
So I'm pretty much guessing what's going on in my shot, because I can't see anything when I look through the view finder, so I take a few short exposures to try and get my bearings of what I'm shooting at then just click 'go for it'.
I honestly had no idea that I would pick up as much light pollution from the resort as I did, or that it would light up the palms and compose my shot so nicely.
But I was looking at my little screen at the results and was all like 'fuck me' when this thing popped up.
So yeah, kinda lucky.
if it's sharp enough i'd love it if you could send me the original, i'll make the wall myself.