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Phil Plait Talks About the HiRISE Image of Phoenix

submitted by Raigen

1 decade 6 years 4 months 1 week ago

Phil, the Bad Astronomer, talks about the photo that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (HiRise) took of the Phoenix Lander descending to the Martian surface under it's own parachute.

It is quite the breathtaking image, and I, for one, can't wait to see what else we as a species can do in space and on Mars.

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See the picture here so you can really let it sink in:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/images.php?fileID=9227

Moving this video to Raigen's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Raigen.

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Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Raigen.

The speech is more breathtaking than the photo. Still, big upvote for Phil.
Sure, it's cool that our robots can take pictures of each other, but c'mon, favorite picture of all time?... what about the Hubble stuff we have of two galaxies ramming into each other? Or the good old M16? If it's the favorite based on conceptual grounds, how about the dark matter map or the COBE map? Or, recently, the first photograph of an extra-solar planet?

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