Tech | May 27, 2009 | 1 comment

News From Mars

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1. Looking at Landing Sites for the Mars Science Laboratory: From space, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes a closer look at four possible landing sites for NASAs next Mars rover.

2. Soaring Over Mars: NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter gives us an unprecedented birds-eye view of the Red Planet.

3. Mars Science Laboratory: This animation demonstrates how the rover will enter, descend and land on the surface of Mars.
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    • Great 3D translations of the data from Mars missions. Perhaps understanding Mars history, and discovering how the water was lost, may help us understand our own planetary fragility. Understanding how much a slight temperature change might increase evaporations of various gases into space, including water as vapor - and cause a cascade of irreversible losses - could keep us from becoming as dry as Mars is now. Perhaps not in our lifetime, but geologic time,- still .....

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