First High-Res Color Photos from Mars 540
mzs writes "The first color thumbnail from Spirit was available yesterday from a larger image. Today some full-size color images are available. If you are in the USA you may be interested in catching the NOVA program on your local PBS station tonight." Acrobatman notes the existence of a nifty utility:"Mars24, a Mac OS X and Java application and applet which displays a Mars 'sunclock', a graphical representation of Mars. This free utility shows the current sun- and nightsides of Mars, along with a numerical readout of the time in 24-hour format and landmarks such as the landing positions of the rovers."
Pebbles, Chunks, and Volkswagens (Score:2, Insightful)
Because that's its color on Mars (Score:5, Insightful)
You might be thinking of the Martian sunset, which is blue.
Re:Hmm, what happened to the last lander NASA sent (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe they're taking pictures of the robot to verify the functionality of its various components. And I would imagine they DID take hi-res images of it prior to launch, for comparison among other reasons.
Re:Why is the sky red? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Where? (Score:5, Insightful)
Communicator onboard? (Score:2, Insightful)
imagine an alien spaceship landed on Earth, and just moves around and ignores any communication with it.
Re:billions spent (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I wouldn't mind going there myself. (Score:4, Insightful)
Then I scrolled over the picture, looking down at the rocks, and up at the horizon, and over, and felt how it was this huge expanse of real land, across the vacuum of space, virtually untouched, and actually sitting there with who knows what kind of potential. It was almost as if without any life, it seemed like the rocks in that picture had to make up for it, and they are sitting in that picture in total shock at the thing that just landed next to them. Eons of nothing happening and then that.