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Potential Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site: Nili Fossae Trough (PSP_008927_2010)

jtintle wrote 2 days ago: Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Description: Nili Fossae trough is a linear trough about 25 … more »

Tags: Planets, HiRISE, Isidis Basin, Mars, Mars Science Laboratory rover, NASA, Nili Fossae, University of Arizona

Mystery Mounds (PSP_008778_1685)

jtintle wrote 4 days ago: Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Description: This image was targeted because a previous MOC … more »

Tags: Planets, HiRISE, Mars, NASA, University of Arizona

BigDog, a robot: Looks like a horse, moves like a horse, sounds like a fly

Cyvros/fyc wrote 2 weeks ago: A friend recently linked me to this rather awesome video of a rather awesome robot, the dynamically … more »

Tags: Sci-Tech, robotics, Awesome, NASA, --darpa, harvard, Caltech

I thought Phoenix landed somewhere flat?

Dave Smith wrote 2 weeks ago: Phoenix’s destination was “the northern plains”.  JPL’s David Spencer furth … more »

Tags: Space, phoenix, MRO, HiRISE, Heimdall, NASA

Abandoned NASA Trailer

range wrote 1 month ago: (via glass) … more »

Tags: Asides, photos, Abandoned, glass, Images, NASA, trailer

Life on Mars? Well, water anyway…

John Keegan wrote 1 month ago: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/ Clearly from this evidence, there was water on Mars. But does fr … more »

Tags: General, ice, Life, Mars, NASA, Phoenix Lander, Search, water

YES! We Have Ice!

twistedone151 wrote 1 month ago: As reported by science news pages all over the ‘net, Phoenix has found water ice beneath the s … more »

Tags: Math/Science, Science, Mars, Länder, phoenix, NASA, ice, water, ice on Mars

Mars - Wow!

lcurtiss wrote 1 month ago: When I was but a lad age 10 or so my Uncle, with whose family I lived, worked as an electrician at J … more »

Tags: Inspiration, Science, apollo, Mars, Mars Surveyor, NASA, opportunity, Ranger, Rover

Helion Enzo Video Interview

Troy wrote 1 month ago: Helion Enzo (his SL name), who works with JPL, was interviewed about Second Life. Check it out: … more »

Tags: Interview, SL

Fortunate View

jtintle wrote 1 month ago: Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Description: From a highly inclined orbit, Cassini look … more »

Tags: Space Fotos, Planets, NASA, Cassini, Tethys, Saturn, Space Science Institute

HiRISE camera captures image of the Phoenix landing site 22 hours after landing.

jtintle wrote 1 month ago: Phoenix Lander Hardware: EDL +22 (PSP_008591_2485) Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona MRO’s … more »

Tags: Space Fotos, Planets, NASA, Mars, HiRISE, University of Arizona, Phoenix Lander

Robots are better at space exploration than humans.

kfarr wrote 1 month ago: As many close friends can attest, I dream of the future human colonization of planets in our solar s … more »

Tags: Econ, Tech, Red, explorer, Return, Costs, Output, Space, Robots

Phoenix

Samer wrote 2 months ago: When I was a child - maybe nine or ten - I mailed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory a request for pictur … more »

Tags: Miscellaneous, Mars, NASA, phoenix, Space

Life on Mars2 comments

nsaunders wrote 2 months ago: Late one evening back in July 1997, I was alone in the lab writing my Ph.D. thesis, several months b … more »

Tags: Science News, space science, Web Resources, Mars, NASA, phoenix

MRO captures pic of Phoenix Lander DURING LANDING!

mt330404 wrote 2 months ago: By Emily Lakdawalla The Planetary Society Weblog Planetary.org May 26, 2008 Click here for the origi … more »

Tags: News Story, Photo, Space, Science, Mars, phoenix, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA

Qik quickly becoming influential

Colby Olson wrote 2 months ago: Yesterday many of us watched the Phoenix Mars Landing on tv or somewhere online. It is a truly anoth … more »

Tags: Software, John Culberson, landing, Mars, phoenix, qik

Jubilation at NASA and JPL as Phoenix touches down on Mars

kenyanobserver wrote 2 months ago: This is just incredible. The phoenix lander has just landed on mars. The mission, led by engineers f … more »

Tags: News Headlines, Around the US, $million$, phoenix, Länder, Spacecraft, NASA, Animation, Engineers

random1 comment

sweetcheese wrote 2 months ago: I decided it is high time for another random links post, so here goes. Be forewarned — these … more »

Tags: Art, Craft, fuzzy, Random, accordion, aerial, Artist, envelope, Joy

Picture Perfect Landing for Mars Phoenix probe

justnukeit wrote 2 months ago: Wow. Just wow. I don’t see how this could ever get old. Building something, sending it to a … more »

Tags: News, science and technology, Engineering, Mars, NASA, Science