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More amazing photos from Mars
The first is another photo captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's high-resolution imager. You can see the lander suspended from the parachute. This photo is taken at a very unique angle which makes it looks as if the lander will end up in the large crater, however: Shown here is a 10 kilometer (6 mile) diameter crater informally called "Heimdall," and an improved full-resolution image of the parachute and lander. Although it appears that Phoenix is descending into the crater, it is actually about 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) in front of the crater. This is another photo from the orbiter, ...
Posted on: 2008 May 27
Filed under: Space, Technology
Follow the Mars lander Phoenix on Twitter?
Love space probes? Love the latest craze in Web 2.0 social goodness? NASA is operating a twitter feed for the progress of their latest planetary lander, Phoenix, which is going to make a controlled landing near the pole of Mars on May 25th!
Books I picked up over vacation
While in DC and visiting so many museums, my imagination and curiosity was piqued on a number of occasions. Living in my programmer / consultant / marketer's brain for such long stretches of time really starts to divorce you from interesting reading material. Last year I made a special point to read a number of seminal science fiction books (Ender's Game series, Snowcrash, Neuromancer, et cetera) and I hope to read a bunch more this year. From DC I picked up a few, and you can probably guess where I got each. Here they are, click the photos of the ...
by Clint Ecker
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