Casual Friday — Phoenix (nearly) on Mars
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely run across some of the barrage of internet coverage of the upcoming (this Sunday!) arrival of the Phoenix lander at Mars. I’m sure we’re all crossing our fingers and toes thanks to past problems there; while you’re waiting for the big event, you can watch this fun bit of video courtesy of the Phoenix project:
Meanwhile, if you’d like to do a bit of reading about the mission, you might want to check out the mission’s homepage.
You might also be interested in some other, vaguely similar posts:
Philds wrote,
That’s a realy cool movie. Reality can rock more than (sci) fiction.
I hope it finds a nice boulderfree spot to land. Preferably next to the house of some little green men and women.
Link | May 25th, 2008 at 05:37 EDT