NASA sure knows how to have fun!
check out this photo:
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phoenix-descent.php
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of the Phoenix lander while it was still using it’s parachute.
cool.
NASA sure knows how to have fun!
check out this photo:
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phoenix-descent.php
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of the Phoenix lander while it was still using it’s parachute.
cool.
It’s hard to express just how amazing this photo is. Well done NASA!
Oooooh, that is something! Dramatic and momentous-feeling.
I sure wish this space-exploration stuff could happen just a little faster. I know that’s childish and unreasonable. But, it’s so exciting!
All warm ‘n’ fuzzy…more.
This place has photos of the lander on the ground AND the remnants of the heat shield, the top-thingie and the parachute. From orbit!
Couple clicks required, but they’re obvious.
God, I love our robots. A quarter of a light-hour away, one of our robots, orbiting Mars, takes a picture of another of our robots as it descends to the Martian surface. Both robots are there solely to advance human knowledge. For violent chimps with oversized brains, we do all right sometimes. (I say “we”, like I’d ever qualify to work at JPL.)
Too many Ts in your link…
Aw, shucks.
Fixed link
Wow, it looks like it’s going to land right in that big crater, though I know it landed on a plain.
Yeah, It looks like it’s gonna be Sarlacc chow for sure.
Here’s our own Bad Astronomer’s video blog on the descent photos.