What? No talk about the Mars Rover?

[henk brouwer]

I don't see much difference in the Mars landscape since the Last one, but I guess that was to be expected.
[/QB]

Well, it seems that NASA knows people are expecting mars to have a red-coloured landscape, and they seem to have processed al pictures using a red filter to meet our expectations.
Here is the url of a website that has tried to convert the pictures to how mars would look if you saw it with your own eyes:

http://www.keithlaney.com/spirit_color_images.htm

It's still red, but it doesn't hurt your eyes like the red/orange nasa pictures.

There's a panel on the lander for which the colors are known. They converted the picture to the right colors using this panel as a reference.

[ January 16, 2004, 11:28: Message edited by: henk brouwer ]

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Cyrien:
I just loved Bush Jrs speech on going back to the moon. Robots by 2008. Of course a nice year considering that even if Bush gets reelected it will be at the far tail end of his Last possible term. Lets just push it off to the next guy. And 2015 for manned landings building upto a base. What are the odds of that going uninterrupted.

Oh well. We can still hope.

I'm glad Bush made that speed. What I'm dreading is that the next Democrat to get elected will drastically reduce NASA's budget and basically wreck Bush's plans for outer space. Hopefully, his plans will survive the next few elections, and maybe my son will be able to become an astronaut and go to the moon or Mars. he's only 3, but one can hope....

[Phoenix-D]

And now we have the first casulty of the Bush program- the Hubble Space Telescope. all the shuttle flights from now until thye are retired will be going to ISS. When Hubble needs servicing again, it won't get it.

[geoschmo]

Actually they were talking about having to phase out the Hubble before this. It's more a result of the Columbia disaster then any change in priorities.

[Narrew]

humm, this Saturday the second rover was to land and NOW NASA lost contact with the first one, the Martians are comming!!!

[Azselendor]

Given the republican party is unable to commit any money to the space program, I've heard many calling for its dismantling after Columbia and after bush's speech, I doubt any of his plan will happen.

[Wardad]

Check out this view from the Hubbles replacement.