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New hi-def images from Mars
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New hi-def images from Mars
Mission controllers have finally let NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover flip open the dust cap on its hi-def camera, allowing for some of the sharpest images yet.

Quote:[M]ission controllers sent the command for Curiosity to flip open the dust cap in front of the robotic arm-mounted Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI). Until now, the semi-transparent dust cap has only allowed MAHLI to make out fuzzy shapes -- although it did a great job imaging Curiosity's "head" and it is also famous for capturing Curiosity's first color photograph.

But now, the true clarity of MAHLI has been unleashed, allowing us some of the most beautifully detailed images of NASA's rover in her natural habitat.

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MAHLI was designed and built by Malin Space Science Systems and is analogous to a geologist's hand lens -- only a lot more sophisticated. Its high-resolution system can focus and magnify objects as small as 12.5 micrometers (that's smaller than the width of a human hair!).

http://news.discovery.com/space/photos-m...gn=fbdsc17
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: New hi-def images from Mars
Way kewl!!!

Thanks Stimbo +1
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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RE: New hi-def images from Mars
Big Grin I aim to please!

Just think: there were times when people worshipped Mars as a god. Now we've got entire feckin' laboratories set up there. When I see that Martian skyline, those mountains, hills and valleys, those alien rocks, the whole landscape that has been unseen by human eyes throughout all the civilisations that have risen and fallen on Earth, I get chills at just how far we've come and how much there is still to discover.

Quote:If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cry of strange birds and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: New hi-def images from Mars
So much further to go.


Why are we not up to Babylon5 level yet??? We should BE on Mars Colony by now surely.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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Quote:Just think: there were times when people worshipped Mars as a god.

Just think...some assholes still worship jesus as a god.
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RE: New hi-def images from Mars
Difference being we can't stick a probe there. Tempting tough it may be.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: New hi-def images from Mars
Thinking


Colonoscopy anyone?? Big Grin
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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RE: New hi-def images from Mars
Not right now, thanks.
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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A colonoscopy on a xtian would be endless..... piles and piles of shit to get through.
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How does the saying go... Science flies us to new planets while religion flies us into buildings?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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