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- AresDiggs, on 06/08/2008, -1/+35Damnit! i wish i could freeze my self wait 200 years till we have space travel like that of star trek and then unfreeze myself...
- BetterThanYou, on 06/08/2008, -2/+33"Phoenix is scheduled to spend the next three months digging, baking and chemically analyzing its immediate surroundings.."
Sounds like my weekends. - Skunkhair, on 06/08/2008, -3/+32you're telling me that a cd sitting in the sun in my car warps and gets damaged, yet a CD/DVD on the Phoenix survived entry into a martian atmosphere?
- kevets, on 06/08/2008, -0/+24Messages_From_Earth_2007_dvdrip.iso
- magician13134, on 06/08/2008, -0/+19Actually, they are in color, NASA just takes the colors out when they edit out all the aliens to make them look more real. Here's an unedited version:
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/1163/mars1qm4.p ... - lololol1, on 06/08/2008, -5/+24too bad it failed.
- matt510, on 06/08/2008, -1/+16Awww, they already got dirt on the CD with all the names and the "Space Library"!!
- mikephimikephi, on 06/08/2008, -0/+14It should look up just in time to see a Transformer take a swipe at it
- ElbertF, on 06/08/2008, -0/+14When you have to choose between high res images with a lot of information or pretty colored pictures.. It's not a hard decision.
- WallnutBoy, on 06/08/2008, -2/+10If you did that, you'd find yourself very alone after unfreezing.
- uhhNo, on 06/08/2008, -2/+10and dead... almost all of your cells are made up mostly of water, and water expands when frozen, therefore, freezing yourself is a bad idea...
- niczar, on 06/08/2008, -0/+8Color cameras aren't good for doing science. All probes and telescopes do monochrome imaging, and have optional filters, with which composite, color pictures can be assembled, but it requires taking several pictures in a row, with a different filter. This means that for real time operation, such as making sure the scoop is filled appropriately before analysis, only a B&W pic will be taken.
- CanadianRealist, on 06/08/2008, -0/+7Think of it this way, computers, the internet, cell phones, even air planes would have all been pretty amazing "truly sci-fi" stuff 100 to 200 years ago. It wasn't even that long ago that sci-fi authors were laughed at by their publishers for ridiculous stories about rockets to the moon.
And if you happened to be born however many hundreds of years in the future, when Star Trek type stuff was available, you'd probably find it pretty common place, as you do with our current sci-fi type stuff. - Anomaly100, on 06/08/2008, -1/+8Obviously, you've never heard of Philip Fry.
- Aurabolt, on 06/08/2008, -0/+6I still think its awesome that we are looking at MARS in these pictures... thats so friggen far away
- gamerfreak1203, on 06/08/2008, -0/+6I wonder what the "Message From Earth" says.....
- elnerdo, on 06/08/2008, -0/+6Ok, so I read a little bit about this: The camera on the arm is a full-color camera that can take pictures in good detail. The main camera, however, is a black and white stereo camera. Since it's a stereo camera, it takes pictures in 3-D (Using two lenses (like human eyes!)), but for precision, it doesn't have color capabilities (This way, it's easier to figure out the 3-d elements of it).
- matt510, on 06/08/2008, -0/+5"Literary, visual, and audio works of science fiction works about the red planet."
Ref: http://www.space.com/news/070804_phoenix_spacelibr ... - Fallout911, on 06/08/2008, -0/+5I've actually wondered the same thing...
This generation is always "on the brink" but sadly we wont see truly sci-fi stuff for about 100-200 years. - KaJuN4, on 06/08/2008, -0/+5If you want color pictures of Mars you're more than welcome to develop your own craft and send it there.
- cbartlett, on 06/08/2008, -0/+4Between 62 and 236 million miles
- mikephimikephi, on 06/08/2008, -1/+5more than 15
- marially, on 06/08/2008, -2/+6The resolution in this picture is amazing. And it was transmitted back to us over how many miles???
- FlynnMarr, on 06/08/2008, -1/+5Does it seem the contents of the scoop are a much lower resolution then the rest of the picture? Hmm...
- tidu, on 06/08/2008, -0/+4Welcome to the future, my friend.
- bobdobolena, on 06/08/2008, -0/+4Impossible! Once the reaction starts, it'll spread to all the turbinium in the planet. Mars will go into global meltdown. That's why the aliens never turned it on.
- Kristijan12, on 06/08/2008, -0/+4High contrast between the light and shadows.
Shadows are very dark. - matt510, on 06/08/2008, -1/+415 Minutes
- MisterGnome, on 06/13/2009, -0/+3Not only is it glass, it's ceramic.
- magician13134, on 06/08/2008, -0/+3It doesn't even look photoshopped, it looks MsPainted. Look at the bottom left of the scoop. There is a perfect square pasted over it!
- klaengur, on 06/08/2008, -0/+3Notice the DVD !
"This image shows the DVD provided by The Planetary Society to the Phoenix mission, which contains 250,000 names of people who signed up to send their names to Mars. It also contains "Visions of Mars," messages to future Martian explorers, science fiction stories and art inspired by the Red Planet. The DVD is mounted on the deck of the lander, which sits about one meter above the Martian surface, visible in the background. Credit: NASA / JPL / U. Arizona"
what is the dvd region code for mars ?
torrent link ? - magician13134, on 06/08/2008, -0/+3How long does it take these images to get to Earth from Mars? Anyone know?
- valis, on 06/08/2008, -0/+3Well, it *does* have the appearance of an inset image. The lighting seems out of whack and the edges look odd.
- Anomaly100, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2The color images are coming soon.
- skaag, on 06/08/2008, -2/+4LOL Same here :-)
- elnerdo, on 06/08/2008, -1/+3Not only is it covered, it's also not made of plastic, like an ordinary CD. It's made of glass so that it won't be damaged by heat or force.
- melonade, on 06/09/2008, -0/+2Why don't you work at NASA? Clearly you are better educated and have given this considerably more thought than everybody there.
- apextek, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2good point, looks a little photo chopped
- magician13134, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2That's because it's too far in the foreground, the camera is focusing on the ground, although it doesn't explain the pasted in square in the lower left corner of the scoop...
- ScottoGato, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2I hope it was just edited to add more lighting to the scoop. The lighting on the rocks below suggest that the inside of the scoop itself would not have any lighting, making it almost pitch black in there without any lighting from the lander.
- magician13134, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2For some reason I thought it would take longer, but I guess that wouldn't make sense. Thanks
- beerbarron, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2the trasmiting of images like this, really is quite amazing, makes wi max look feable in comparison!
- SuperCujo, on 06/08/2008, -1/+3Philip J. Fry
- apmtt, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2Yeah, ***** space exploration, let's just all go to your backyard, I'm sure we'll get just as much done by sitting around in it. In fact, next time they want to send astronauts up into space in a shuttle, they should just put them on a bus to your house or something.
- SuperCujo, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2You sir, are a marketing departments wet dream.
The belief that megapixels rule all is extremely shortsighted. I've had better pictures come off a 4 MP compact than come off the same brands new 8 MP unit. Sensor density is more important than megapixels. That is why my 6 MP DSLR gives much better photos than the latest and greatest 8 MP compact PoS.
Never mind that making a ruggedised camera that will survive the rigours of launch, space, reentry and operation in a martian environment isn't easy, and taking a small step back in technology to guarantee survival is more more imptortant. - inactive, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2the mission is a cover-up for locating our lost battle cruiser last seen in 1984.
- goon5000, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2Get your ass to Mars
- giantsfan134, on 06/09/2008, -0/+2Well, we won't ever know because they fail at life and can't get dirt into their Easy Bake Ovens for testing.
- melonade, on 06/08/2008, -0/+2It's alien poop
- zxof, on 06/09/2008, -0/+1probably the earth famous rick roll
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