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- Vet4Peace, on 05/30/2008, -0/+96I love science news. It's the only news that is actually encouraging rather than depressing.
- HallEffected, on 05/30/2008, -8/+56It's weird to think that I'm looking at a man-made machine land on an actual alien planet. something that's 40 billion miles away. that no human has ever even come close to.
- jamessavik, on 05/30/2008, -7/+46Congrats to NASA for landing in a crater rather than creating one.
Landing on another planet is no small feat- in this case comparable to firing a bullet from New York, hitting a bulleye in Sydney Australia and having someone from Perth photograph it. - tripledjr, on 05/30/2008, -1/+32There we are on a completely different planet, when some tribes on earth don't even know what an aircraft is. Its insane how non-contigent everything is.
- Gogf, on 05/30/2008, -1/+31This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
- Fabozz, on 05/30/2008, -0/+30Virtually every picture NASA takes is in black and white, because black and white sensors have better light sensitivity and higher resolution. When you see a color picture, it's usually computer-generated from two monochrome pictures taken through different-colored filters.
- SEANWOOKIE, on 05/30/2008, -0/+25Actually it's 42 million miles.
- Yoweigh, on 05/30/2008, -4/+25RTFA. It landed about 20km short of the crater.
- geekchic, on 05/30/2008, -0/+18It's not often that I look at the APOD site in the morning and genuinly let out a "wow" exclamation. Today was one of those moments.
- d686, on 05/30/2008, -0/+13Contrast this to the latest celebrity ***** news... Amazing that the same creatures that are obsessed with Britney's meltdown can pull something like this off.
- Chairboy, on 05/30/2008, -0/+12He probably meant fathoms instead of miles. It's a common mistake.
- Borgcube636, on 05/30/2008, -1/+12***** this - where is that Alien video?!?
- tcpik, on 05/30/2008, -2/+10"It's in the hole."
- FallOutBoyTonto, on 05/30/2008, -0/+8but the bullet would need to be able to have the ability make multiple course corrections too
- gonknet, on 05/30/2008, -0/+8Actually, I'm guessing that the specific creatures that pulled this off are not at all interested in Britney's meltdown.
- sgtunix, on 05/30/2008, -3/+11I played around in Photoshop and turned this photo into a color photo.
http://www.rasterburn.org/~sgt/stuff/phoenixchutec ...
Let me know your opinions of my choice of colors. What is realistic? I suspect they are too warm, and that in reality (through human eyes) Mars looks like a much colder place. - googooly, on 05/30/2008, -1/+9lol, still it didn't crash
- hauntedchippy, on 05/30/2008, -0/+8Now to meet these aliens that are supposedly free from original sin. Lucky bastards.
- Hockey13, on 05/30/2008, -0/+8Anyone know why half of these pictures from NASA are in black and white?
- marially, on 05/30/2008, -1/+8I don't think the 40 billion miles is quite right. At its furthest, it's 249 million miles. Still, this whole thing is totally amazing. Imagine the fact that it can transmit pictures back to us across that distance and we can communicate with it. Makes one marvel at what we are capable of doing. I wish we could put some of this knowledge to end our dependence on foreign oil.
- Ksg89, on 05/30/2008, -0/+6http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/232962main_S_00 ...
Between 150 and 160 degrees near the very top, is that the parachute? - kingofinternet, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5There's something called perspective, boy.
- Trigat, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5Be a little patient. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will take photos of Apollo artifacts and it will do that within the year 2008. Those photos will be of a quality comparable to or better than those made by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_ ...
Of course that photo evidence will not convince any of the conspiraloons that they were wrong. Instead they will claim that NASA faked those photos like they faked Apollo. If you really want to believe nothing will convince you. - chevyorange, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5Then you're not a Seattle Mariners fan.
- AuroraDark, on 05/30/2008, -2/+7fail
- Phoenix219, on 05/30/2008, -0/+4I thought this was a black and white pic of some fat guy's gut when viewing a thumbnail of it.
- magicalhobo, on 05/30/2008, -1/+5Mine was a "Holy *****!"
- Bobski, on 05/30/2008, -2/+6There is no such word as /contigent/ - There is, however, the word contingent and it does not mean anything like your made-up word/definition.
- venson, on 05/30/2008, -0/+4I bet these guys are good at 'Where's Waldo' pics
- zadadka, on 05/30/2008, -0/+4I am indeed an idiot...apologies..... *crawls back under terran rock*
- peterjmag, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3That's why APOD is so awesome.
- xBDVx, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3um....you're an idiot. RTFA.
- loneBoat, on 05/30/2008, -1/+4"Non-contigent"?
- geekchic, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3I'm obviously a politer person ;)
- 1plant1world, on 05/30/2008, -1/+4So why can't we have pictures of the junk left on the moon?
- deanoplex, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3The equipment on the moon is too small and too far away (even the Hubble can't image it) The degrees of arc is the limiting factor:http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/answer.ph ...
- geekchic, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3Someone is going to have to explain the link between receiving a radio signal from a few million miles away - and "foreign oil"
- rac1234, on 05/31/2008, -0/+3http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2008/details/ ...
That one's pretty amazing too. See http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phoenix-hardware.php for an explanation. - orangefly, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3if we find oil on mars and claim it, it wont technically be foreign....
- macosta5811, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2In my case, I look at the APOD site before I go to sleep...
- zaldoe, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2high rez for wallpapers http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2008/details/ ...
- Azselendor, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2It's a 20 billion dollar wet dream for a camera man
- okaroleo, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2billion-shmillion. That's just ***** sweet!
- luckyguy2000, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2yeah, the same thought amazed me today too.
- Phych, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2Here's an glimpse of the system that's similar to what NASA uses to control things like the Phoenix!
http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/lunar_lander_g ... - Drazzim12, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2Actually 420 million. But a million, a billion, once you reach distances like this, the numbers gradually lose their meaning.
- trammell, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2Astronomy Picture of the Day editor and Michigan Tech professor Robert Nemiroff is lecturing at the Digg office today. Have any questions for him?
http://twitter.com/trammell/statuses/823598233 - levitron, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2C. S. Lewis reference?
- ligyron, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2Looks like I'm seeing it through a thermal lens
- Drazzim12, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2Your sarcasm was somehow lost.
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