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NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground

jpl.nasa.gov — NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.

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  • da233, on 08/30/2008, -0/+9Amazing picture.

    Here's an image taken from the Mars Recon Orbitor of the same crater:
    http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA08813_ ...

    Can you find Waldo?
  • TheGuruStud, on 08/30/2008, -0/+8What's with all of the jackasses this morning?
  • armakaryk, on 08/30/2008, -0/+7those two rovers are troopers. they had an original mission life of 90 days and here they are 4 years later still rolling along.
  • Elderon, on 08/30/2008, -2/+9It's amazing that these things are still operational. Good job nasa.... for once. They've been slipping lately, but they really nailed the rovers.
  • levitron, on 08/30/2008, -3/+7Better than the Energizer bunny...
  • daveyWSS, on 08/29/2008, -14/+17nasa is getting better and better at photoshop everday!
  • OneLess, on 08/30/2008, -5/+7This was done in a studio on the moon.
  • mcottier, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2Wow, I am amazed that these rovers are still going! Great work.
  • TheOle, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Go little rover, go! :)
  • fluxion, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1that studio on the moon is fake, it was created in a studio on one of Saturn's moons.
  • tehknotte, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1is that snow?
  • Wander, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1We can control an old robot millions of miles away, but we can't find BIN LADEN!
  • orph3us, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1I have been reading a lot about terraforming Mars. It has suddenly become a huge interest to me. How cool would it be to start that process now. Basically it involves raising the temperature of the planet thereby releasing co2 from the ground and creating a pressurized atmosphere. After that humans could survive with only an oxygen mask. Then plants could survive and create oxygen in the atmosphere to make it breathable. It might never be as hot as earth because it's 50% further away from the Sun than Earth is, but many people have proposed options to remedy this.
    A 100 km radius mirror in space that redirects the Suns heat to the south polar cap could vaporize the co2 there and start the process.
    Other crazy ideas abound. I just think it is interesting. I hope more people start taking an interest in this too!
    Rober Zubrin has a good paper on terraforming: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm
  • berryhill, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Do not click sgu6ena's link
  • S5S5S5, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1"Opportunity used its own entry tracks from nearly a year ago as the path for a drive ....out...."

    I think the people at NASA have been watching too many Steven Seagal movies.
  • SirBruce, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1No, it's not.
  • Br3ach, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1I would expect the faked Mars landing soon
  • solice, on 09/01/2008, -0/+0A problem is that Mars has too little mass to efficiently hold on to it's (new) atmosphere.
  • MarsPhoenix, on 08/30/2008, -0/+0There's an incredible color camera on board (check out the background at www.twitter.com/marsrovers)
    The haz cams and nav cams, the ones the drivers use to get around, take pics in black and white. This one is a navigation image.
  • pakiranian, on 08/30/2008, -5/+4....thats outta this world
  • threepm, on 08/30/2008, -2/+1Whenever I think of these little rovers now I imagine them to be Wall-E and EVA.
  • thegrantman, on 08/30/2008, -7/+3NASA finally dug themselves out of a hole.
  • comradeTJH, on 08/30/2008, -6/+1Such a long travel and they forgot the color camera...

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