Mars Phoenix lander to touch down on the red planet tonight
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Suit up, space nerds, because the Phoenix lander is mere hours away from touchdown on Mars, and NASA’s blowing this thing out. Not only will you get a live video feed from their site, but apparently Mission Control ops will be liveblogging the touchdown and ensuing alien encouners / totally boring rock digging. Festivities kick off at about 6:00pm ET, prepare to set faces to stunned.
(Via Engadget.)
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Shelly Wilson
May 30th, 2008
at 5:29pm
When we first went to the moon, we discovered it to be full of plain dirt and rocks. It was brought back to earth and the scientists analyzed it at length and confirmed that yes, it really is dirt and rocks. Of course we weren’t convinced so, we had to go another dozen times or so to convince ourselves that it was full of dirt and rocks.
When we first went to Mars, our probes took flyby photos of the planet and guess what,? hmmm … it looks like more dirt and rocks but we weren’t convinced so we sent the first Rover to land there. It took many photos and studied the soil and radioed back to earth that Mars if full of dirt and rocks. Ok, so that wasn’t enough so we send the Phoenix. This time it sent us beautiful pictures of a Martian landscape full of … dirt and rocks. But wait, this is different. The Phoenix landed near the North Pole. It began to intimately analyze the soil and it made the amazing discovery that yes, it’s still dirt and rocks. But wait, this is different. The dirt has a pattern to it. Hmmm … I see.