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- drakelord, on 05/16/2008, -0/+28Can you imagine how people on Earth would react if some unknown probe landed here and started scanning and digging stuff up?
- Tomboys, on 05/16/2008, -0/+27what an amazing video. How are people born with so much genius to not only imagine it... but plan it out?
- zaldoe, on 05/16/2008, -1/+143 month mission? NASA please stop underestimating yourself
- sniksnok, on 05/16/2008, -0/+12The animation looks great!
Let's hope everything goes as planned with the Phoenix lander. This thing might make some amazing discoveries on Mars.
@cbeach: The Phoenix is going to land on 25 May, around 7:45 PM EST, at the north polar region of Mars. See: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/ - cbeach, on 05/16/2008, -0/+9When is this actually happening? Couldn't see a date or a time in the article
- zadadka, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/
Countdown timer at bottom-right ...... - alecks, on 05/16/2008, -1/+6I'm so sick of this argument..."I could do that if I wanted to...." . Way to trivialize an amazing and incredible achievement, *****!
- cdigioia, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Where I grew up, I think there's a good chance they'd shoot it.
- punkcat, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4what was the green laser thing it fired at the end?
- piper999, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Let's see - less than a days worth of keeping troops in Iraq maybe? Or a smallish bonus for a corporate executive somewhere? I know where I'd rather see the money go.
- punkcat, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4the ball thing was a money saver, maybe they have more for this mission. i noted that too.
- spazoidspam, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4oh cool, I hadn't been keeping an eye on this mission for a while. It's always nice when these sneak up on you. I remember reading about this mission back when spirit and opportunity landed.
I'll keep my fingers crossed! - letgojoe, on 05/16/2008, -1/+4cool video but I have one that concerns me..... wouldn't you'd think by now we'd have a better way to land on the surface? I'd be damned if I would trust anything like that as a solution for living beings. Think about it.... A parachute that drops a heavy object hundreds of yards over the drop zone that depends on stabilizing rockets to land softly.... but hey, I guess it's better than being surrounded by inflatable bladders of air that bounce all over the place.... that's progress, I suppose. Honestly, I hope it works.
- cygnus2112, on 05/16/2008, -2/+5This only gives hope for my robot army taking out the Eastern Hemisphere.
- RSS14, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3NASA is such a good investment, it is ***** that they put cutbacks on it . . .
- simg, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3>>But actually we're stupid pests and our lives are completely meaningless, and nobody gives a ***** if you survive or not.
speak for yourself ;p - shadowsurfr1, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3I'm pretty sure it's a green laser.
- r3s0p, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3Even if we kill nearly every living thing on this planet, it's still going to be easier to start over here than colonize another. Pinning hopes on colonizing another planet makes for a great story, and i'm all for NASA, but i think it's better to fix what we already have.
- cheesylobster, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3A sweet video on the Phoenix Mission for all us NASA nerds:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/on_demand_vi ...
I can't wait to see what this thing might find, as there has been little success in studying areas near water on mars. - Haecceity, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2What could go wrong?
- Indrius, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Yes, colonize Mars, cover its surface with concrete, malls and gas stations so the fat asses could drive their SUVs all day long and shop for no reason. Do you really believe human beings are worth to be spread to other planets? Honestly?
- cbeach, on 05/16/2008, -1/+3I agree that humans have mucked around with Earth over hundreds of years. Our next generations don't deserve to suffer the problems we have created. Let's learn from our mistakes on Earth and colonise other planets with sustainability in mind.
- palehorse864, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Planning it out is imagination applied.
- noahtron, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2one is not born with this kind of genius.
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Unfortunately, Texas electronic eating ants managed to get on board right before launch, and are waiting...for the right time....
- antiver, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2I like how the camera looks down towards the ground... there's probably a debug console somewhere outputting "oh ***** oh ***** oh *****..."
- moniker, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2According to http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/faq.php:
Phoenix will land at approximately 4:36pm Pacific Daylight Time (7:36pm Eastern Daylight Time). We hope to receive the first signal from the lander approximately 17 minutes later at 4:53pm PDT (7:53pm EDT). - SeaICIubber, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Death Ray, first strike on the Martians!
- SeaICIubber, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2What are the odds that the NASA scientists running this mission grew up playing Lunar Lander?
http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/lunar_lander_g ... - cygnus2112, on 05/16/2008, -6/+8NASA needs to come up with less expensive ways to bite their nails.
- possiblyneil, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Am I the only one who thinks they saw subliminal messages in that film towards the end?
- RealmDown, on 05/16/2008, -1/+2Captain! There's a TROLL dead ahead. Attacking without provocation, as usual.
Phasers, fire all banks! Torpedoes, full spread!
*kisses random girl* - punkcat, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1that will be handy to determine Mar's pricing structure, if we can afford to live there etc.
- matt.rubin, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1in order to colonize mars I remember reading it would take about 300 years to get the atmosphere strong enough to host life again
- edwardmluk, on 05/16/2008, -2/+3I've got one of those made from Lego. Mine's got a bar code reader too...
- alecks, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Ha, that was my exact thought as I watched the robot unfold itself.
- cygnus2112, on 05/16/2008, -2/+3So, you've met my proctologist ...
- _skin_, on 05/16/2008, -1/+2I agree that humans are a "virus" but I am definitely interested in ways we can redeem ourselves.
- matt.rubin, on 05/16/2008, -1/+2but its not about expanding where we live. Its to look at the universe and understand how we got here. If you haven't noticed earth has been completely explorered. We need to branch out to other planets. We could use mars for that reason too. I mean do you see the ISS covered in malls and mcdonalds? I think people are looking at this at a much smaller scale than it needs to be looked at. People are always going to suffer because people are always going to argue. There is nothing that can be done about that. This is above our problems here on earth. This is much larger than we are.
- allengeer, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1frankly I don't think enough is spent on most of these missions. NASA is extremely budget limited. I mean the real goal here, if, you know, we could see past this inter species fighting is that we will live here until another mass extinction occurs. The only chance the human race has to survive is to colonize multiple planets.
- floejoe, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Keep in mind these are the same people who forgot to convert English measures into the metric system and the rover crashed into Mars.
- matt.rubin, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1and there goes productivity
- allengeer, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1talking about jumping the gun. I think colonizing Mars is a little extreme of a jump right now. Before we talk about colonizing Mars, let us first build a vehicle that can transport and sustain a human being to Mars and back. It doesn't even have to land on Mars.
- past89, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1That was the Phoenix sending info to a satellite in Mars' orbit, which then sends it back to Earth.
- allengeer, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1what a blatantly ignorant thing to say. people who think like you are just so grossly unaware of the beneficial impact that space exploration has on your everyday life. MRI, GPS, Satellite TV, Vision Screening Test, Fire resistant materials for firefighters, plastics, smoke detectors, cordless tools, and the joystick all came from the space program. The space programs of various countries are dedicated to the systematic understanding and manipulation of the world we exist in. And that isn't on you list of "getting our own backyard in order".
Since you clearly have the reasoning skills of a child, here is a K-5th grade poster on what NASA has done for you.
http://ksc.nasatechnology.com/resources/spinoffs/s ... - nightwatch, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1The green laser is being fired from a lidar, a laser radar system for measuring the vertical distribution of dust and ice clouds. It is a part of a Canadian funded meteorological package.
- mcottier, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1They will be broadcasting live from the control room on May 25th when it lands, on the Science Channel, around 6.pm. central I believe.
- Indrius, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1I agree. As long as there is at least one human being suffering from famine, drought or cancer, there is no justification for billions spent on wars and space exploration crap.
- palehorse864, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1I think he's worried we'll make someone on mars "Very very angry!"
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1Yeah but the chute and cap is going to smash the thing to pieces about 10 seconds after it lands. that's just life......
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