Eat it, Beagle.

Good day for NASA, but I'm still waiting for a manned trip somewhere other then orbit to get my space juices flowing.

Watch Pres. Bush's state of the union address in a couple of weeks. Rumor has it that NASA will be one of the themes - a return to the moon, and then to Mars. Finally!

That said, the NASA news conference just said that there will be pictures in a few hours. I'll catch em in the morning.

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i wish i had tv... , luckly i have my trusty computer to fill me in on the world, and my 2 fat cats right here to tell me all about mars. when i said fat i meant 18lbs, 15lbs.

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Nasa TV live on the web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/

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The official NASA sight:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Play by play as it happened:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...ustextonly.html

Live net coverage;
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Just awesome! And it landed upright - can't get much more of a perfect landing than that.

It was very exciting following each stage of the landing on the spaceflightnow sight. Unbelievable. Can't wait for the first pics...of rocks...and some sand .

Just cool.

They're just "downloading" the first batch of data (24megabits). 1 minute to go...

WOW! Here we go - the first pics coming now. Here's a screen capture from live NASA TV, overlooking the Mars landscape. Big rock and airbags over on the right in the first picture. The second pic is a mosaic of several.

(pics removed)

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Last edited by imokruok on Jan-04-2004 at 19:52

Some of the first images have been posted:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...0104image1.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...0104image2.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...0104image3.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...0104image5.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...image5_full.jpg <--- nice high detail panoramic image (not colour tho - first colour images expected sunday evening US west time)

Better high res of pics above from official NASA site:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rov...P1502R000M1.jpg <-- same panoramic as above; probably best image so far.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rov...d-p150x_pol.jpg

Super high res colour image part 1 (4mb jpg 2500x2750 pixels)
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gall...6a/PIA04995.jpg

Last edited by b1_ on Jan-07-2004 at 03:16

This looks like it until tomorrow. The rover is going to sleep until it makes contact with the NASA orbiter in a few hours. I'm goin' to bed - 2am here. Later-

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Originally posted by imokruok

AMERIKKKA #1! USA! USA! USA!

this is awsome though, a little more pricy than pathfinder, even if its two rovers instead of one. glad it made it... unlike last time

ps: pre-emtive conspiracy "THIS IS A HOAX AND WAS FILMED AT AREA 51"

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Originally posted by NeoPhono Eat it, Beagle. Good day for NASA, but I'm still waiting for a manned trip somewhere other then orbit to get my space juices flowing.

Euro is now even with us. We lost one, they lost one. also I agree, we need manned missions, and convert those terrorist martians who killed the beagle to americanism

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Originally posted by rizen Euro is now even with us. We lost one, they lost one.

Well, not quite. NASA's been there successfully before.

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