Comments on: Phoenix's First Views With Color http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/phoenixs-first-views-with-color/ Space and astronomy news Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:45:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: SpaceMad http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/phoenixs-first-views-with-color/comment-page-1/#comment-21953 SpaceMad Tue, 27 May 2008 21:04:47 +0000 http://www.universetoday.com/?p=14537#comment-21953 The images from Phoenix are tremendous! Now that they have been colourized they have improved no end! Colourised images like these will draw the general public's attention. A newspaper here in the UK published a number of images in colour this morning! They obviously expected their paper to sell like "hot cakes"! Congratulations to everyone involved in the successful landing of Phoenix on Mars! :) The images from Phoenix are tremendous! Now that they have been colourized they have improved no end! Colourised images like these will draw the general public's attention.

A newspaper here in the UK published a number of images in colour this morning! They obviously expected their paper to sell like "hot cakes"!

Congratulations to everyone involved in the successful landing of Phoenix on Mars! :)

]]> By: amir http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/phoenixs-first-views-with-color/comment-page-1/#comment-21942 amir Tue, 27 May 2008 20:27:06 +0000 http://www.universetoday.com/?p=14537#comment-21942 good good Phoenix's i am irane """farsi""" خداوند در فران از مخلوقات دیگر به غیر از انسان نیز یاد کرده.البته گویا حتی نیت بد هم در باره زمین داشته اند که به امر خدا وبا تیرهای اتشین از عمل انان جلوگیری شده است.من نمی دانم دین به این کاملی را چطور به غربی ها بد معرفی کردن هر کدام از احکام اسلام دارای روح وفلسفه خاص است سراسر قران از عظمت ودانش نوع بشر وبا تعبیر خلیفه الله نام برده.چرا شما نظام ما را که بر اساس فطرت انسانها بنا شده نمی پسندید چند نمونه ازاخلاق وروش حکومت ولایی بر اساس بینش تشیع برای شما می گویم:ساده زیستی روش زندگی حاکمان مانند مردم عادی پست وریاست هیچ مزیتی محسوب نمی شود فقط مسئولیت ووظیفه است مردانگی وغیرت ببینید دنیا پرستی انسانها را نامرد می کند هر کس نامرد بود بدانید دنیا طلب است.اصولا در اسلام این دنیا به منزله مزرعه است وحیات جاود وجاودانه مختص سرای دیگر است"farsi" good good Phoenix's
i am irane
"""farsi"""
خداوند در فران از مخلوقات دیگر به غیر از انسان نیز یاد کرده.البته گویا حتی نیت بد هم در باره زمین داشته اند که به امر خدا وبا تیرهای اتشین از عمل انان جلوگیری شده است.من نمی دانم دین به این کاملی را چطور به غربی ها بد معرفی کردن هر کدام از احکام اسلام دارای روح وفلسفه خاص است سراسر قران از عظمت ودانش نوع بشر وبا تعبیر خلیفه الله نام برده.چرا شما نظام ما را که بر اساس فطرت انسانها بنا شده نمی پسندید چند نمونه ازاخلاق وروش حکومت ولایی بر اساس بینش تشیع برای شما می گویم:ساده زیستی روش زندگی حاکمان مانند مردم عادی پست وریاست هیچ مزیتی محسوب نمی شود فقط مسئولیت ووظیفه است مردانگی وغیرت ببینید دنیا پرستی انسانها را نامرد می کند هر کس نامرد بود بدانید دنیا طلب است.اصولا در اسلام این دنیا به منزله مزرعه است وحیات جاود وجاودانه مختص سرای دیگر است"farsi"

]]> By: gudenboink http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/phoenixs-first-views-with-color/comment-page-1/#comment-21936 gudenboink Tue, 27 May 2008 20:15:22 +0000 http://www.universetoday.com/?p=14537#comment-21936 NASA wouldn't want to send a rover to the polar regions UNTIL they could determine for sure how far under the soil the ice was. If they spent another 420 Million bucks for a rover and the rover sank into the crusty ice or uneven soil and got stuck, they would look pretty stupid don't you think? Feet to meters - meters to feet........... I'm a little worried that they landed too far south of the the polar cap to get at the ice. THAT would really suck! NASA wouldn't want to send a rover to the polar regions UNTIL they could determine for sure how far under the soil the ice was.

If they spent another 420 Million bucks for a rover and the rover sank into the crusty ice or uneven soil and got stuck, they would look pretty stupid don't you think?

Feet to meters – meters to feet………..

I'm a little worried that they landed too far south of the the polar cap to get at the ice.
THAT would really suck!

]]> By: shrike bite http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/phoenixs-first-views-with-color/comment-page-1/#comment-21801 shrike bite Mon, 26 May 2008 22:57:27 +0000 http://www.universetoday.com/?p=14537#comment-21801 @J. Tyler: very simple answers to an uninformed reactionary question: 1 Everything is more or less the same as far as you can see near the landing ellipse, so they are looking for representative soil / ice samples to analyze, which should be the same everywhere, therefore there is no need for mobility. 2 Spacecraft is weight / cost limited, thus even though mobility would be great (just in case, right...) the trade off benefit for the loss of mobility is extra science stuff! Eg, MER has no chemical analysis capability, but has mobility and Phoenix has capability for chemical analysis, but it is stuck in place 3 This is a lander not a rover by definition @J. Tyler: very simple answers to an uninformed reactionary question:

1 Everything is more or less the same as far as you can see near the landing ellipse, so they are looking for representative soil / ice samples to analyze, which should be the same everywhere, therefore there is no need for mobility.

2 Spacecraft is weight / cost limited, thus even though mobility would be great (just in case, right…) the trade off benefit for the loss of mobility is extra science stuff! Eg, MER has no chemical analysis capability, but has mobility and Phoenix has capability for chemical analysis, but it is stuck in place

3 This is a lander not a rover by definition

]]> By: Ralph Rewes http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/phoenixs-first-views-with-color/comment-page-1/#comment-21785 Ralph Rewes Mon, 26 May 2008 21:20:05 +0000 http://www.universetoday.com/?p=14537#comment-21785 Great PIctures. I wish you had a mission to Cydonia, I am almost sure the pictures will be more dramatic. Great PIctures. I wish you had a mission to Cydonia, I am almost sure the pictures will be more dramatic.

]]> By: Magister mundi sum! http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/phoenixs-first-views-with-color/comment-page-1/#comment-21782 Magister mundi sum! Mon, 26 May 2008 20:55:42 +0000 http://www.universetoday.com/?p=14537#comment-21782 Ballance, why do we need to? as peter said last night on the Nasa channel, the landforms under neath the lander are the same as the ones on the horizon. sure, id like it to have wheels, but these guys know what they are doing. Ballance, why do we need to? as peter said last night on the Nasa channel, the landforms under neath the lander are the same as the ones on the horizon.

sure, id like it to have wheels, but these guys know what they are doing.

]]> By: J. Tyler Ballance http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/phoenixs-first-views-with-color/comment-page-1/#comment-21779 J. Tyler Ballance Mon, 26 May 2008 20:14:12 +0000 http://www.universetoday.com/?p=14537#comment-21779 $420 Million bucks and the thing doesn't have wheels! That alone, is an amazing discovery! Only NASA could piss away that much money and provide a lander that can't maneuver. Congrats on the landing, but I am left wondering how much more a mobile lander would have cost? $420 Million bucks and the thing doesn't have wheels!

That alone, is an amazing discovery! Only NASA could piss away that much money and provide a lander that can't maneuver.

Congrats on the landing, but I am left wondering how much more a mobile lander would have cost?

]]> By: TomDehel http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/phoenixs-first-views-with-color/comment-page-1/#comment-21747 TomDehel Mon, 26 May 2008 16:28:28 +0000 http://www.universetoday.com/?p=14537#comment-21747 I'm really, really looking forward to seeing the true color image. In some of the current ones, there are areas, especially on the one rock at center left, which shows a greenish color. If that's any rudimentary life - this is an historic day!!! Of course mere color is not enough, but it is very interesting. I hope UniverseToday.com can follow up on this. I'm really, really looking forward to seeing the true color image. In some of the current ones, there are areas, especially on the one rock at center left, which shows a greenish color. If that's any rudimentary life – this is an historic day!!! Of course mere color is not enough, but it is very interesting. I hope UniverseToday.com can follow up on this.

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