I was really annoyed to find out that Nasa was defunding the Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars. The little machines well outlasted their projected life, and continue to run.
I knew that there were other landers in process, but with the travel time being between 9 months and 2 years, you tend to forget what's in the cue and and when its expected. Which is why I was glad to hear that Phoenix successfully landed.
I'm expecting we will see a bunch of cool new images over the next few days.
Check out the link.
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/05_26_pr.php
B
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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It's a shame that 2 perfectly good rovers (at least for their age!) are going to go to waste. Reminds me of the on & off debates about how long to keep hubble running.
Speaking of cool images, your blog name has had me thinking... you need a cool tessellation for your blog's banner! Escher of course comes to mind. Check out these:
http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery-symmetry.htm
I'm tempted to thrown something together, but I'm just a paintbrush user myself... :)
A couple of years ago I wrote NC code to have one of my machines at work cut out the lizards. It was tricky getting them to fit together nicely. My daughter has a bunch in with her puzzles, I guess I could take a picture of those.
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