Remember the Mars Pathfinder? That plucky little rover that crawled around the surface of Mars back in 1997? Well, the new Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s powerful camera has found it again on the Martian terrain. It’s time to relive those days of early Martian exploration.
The photo attached to this story was taken by MRO of the entire landing site. The original photo is 4000 x 4000 pixels, but I’ve clipped down the parts that include the lander. The full image also contains the heatshield, parachute and backshell.
Pathfinder landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, and lasted for about 3 months. The tiny Sojourner rover wandered around the lander, analyzing rocks and transmitting pictures back to Earth using the Pathfinder lander as a relay.
NASA scientists will be able to use this image to recreate the lander’s descent, to improve their calculations of the Martian atmosphere, spacecraft performance, and operation of the landing system.
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Us the link and enlarge the photo. A little imagination is still required.
QUOTE (kaneda+Jan 22 2007, 10:31 AM)
http://www.universetoday.com/
Us the link and enlarge the photo. A little imagination is still required.
Euphemism the yours! The probe is absolutely invisible. But there must be a rover somewhere in this shot, exactly as much as you must have a soul somewhere. 
Acta fidei.
Us the link and enlarge the photo. A little imagination is still required.
Euphemism the yours! The probe is absolutely invisible. But there must be a rover somewhere in this shot, exactly as much as you must have a soul somewhere. Acta fidei.
There are some pixels of metallic shiness in the right area which should not be on the uniformly gray (in this photo) surface.
As to the soul, pure delusion. If it existed, it would need a physical duplicate brain structure complete with duplicate chemicals to be us. It would also be detectable with an EEG machine. When you are dead and find that god has lied to you and you don't have a soul, what are you going to do? Sue him?
As to the soul, pure delusion. If it existed, it would need a physical duplicate brain structure complete with duplicate chemicals to be us. It would also be detectable with an EEG machine. When you are dead and find that god has lied to you and you don't have a soul, what are you going to do? Sue him?
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