Phoenix Mars Lander Successfully Lands on Mars

[ultraist]

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After the "seven minutes of terror," NASA recieved communications that the Mars Phoenix Lander successfully landed on Mars.

The 422 million mile journey to Mars took 296-days.

History in the making.

[lob1]

1. Just Amazing.

They landed that sucker 422 million miles away, and I have trouble parking my car.

[ultraist]

2. lol!

Yes, truly amazing.

Very cool!

[liberaltrucker]

12. I'm willing to bet those NASA engineers have the same problem

We all have our gifts and foibles.

:)

[sellitman]

3. I can't wait to see the pics!

Yahooooooo!

[ultraist]

19. The images are now rolling in!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html

[whistle]

4. The images shown of the landing were animations though, correct?

[cynthia]

5. yes - only animations at this point

still good news

[ultraist]

7. Yes

That's right. If all of the equipment is working, the first photos should arrive around 10 PM ET.

[Britethorn]

6. USA

Nice to see that this went off so well. We can use some good news these days . . .

[ultraist]

8. Indeed!

With Bush being anti-Science and anti-progress in general, it's nice to see our nation still out front on something.

But, if things don't change, we'll begin to lag further and futher behind other countries.

[medeak]

18. Bush's plan to go to Mars

Had to attend repuke function just after his election and creepzoid who inherited rocket engine company was salivating "Bush is going to Mars!"

[FlyingSquirrel]

9. I don't see why everyone's making such a big deal about this...

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Oops... sorry! :D

[liberaltrucker]

13. Apology accepted

:woohoo:

:)

[bleever]

10. That's some nice work.

Science works!

[liberaltrucker]

11. FINALLY! Some good news!

:patriot:

[El Supremo]

14. So will this show we can colonize Mars?

And send * and all the Repukes there?

Or at least get some resources that we could use?

Don't get me wrong. I love technological advancements. But does this serve any real purpose?

[FlyingSquirrel]

15. Well... Mars is the god of war so that'd be a good place for them all!

:rofl:

[DianaForRussFeingold]

16. That is so COOL!

:applause: Thank you!:woohoo: I am so very proud of NASA! :patriot: :yourock:

[thereismore]

17. How can they be excited, knowing that all this happened 30 minutes before?

[Divine Discontent]

20. ha... you're silly! eom

[whistle]

22. NASA koolaid...the staff really look like and acted like kids on U.S. navy aircraft carriers...

...I'm actually pleased that the Mars exploration mission at NASA has been revised once again. However, what was the significance of landing the exploration vehicle in the north polar region of Mars? Are they hoping they will confirm the presence of water? The speculation for decades has been that the polar regions which showed white and dark areas expanding and receding were in fact frozen carbon dioxide and perhaps some type of inorganic material.

I hope the scientific experiments they intend to conduct will address these questions and are not dominated by military applications and interests.

[heliarc]

24. I hope that the scientific experiments...

justify years and years of a force atrophied public educational system, decaying veteran's services, and crippled hospitals, and clinics.

[DainBramaged]

27. So, you believe the Earth is flat?

Always someone who thinks science is bad for us all. How sad.

[heliarc]

29. Wasted science is bad for us.

I suppose you're going to say that study after study proving Vioxx to be perfectly safe was useful to us?

How about billions in spending to go to space when we need more R&D to solve Environmental problems at home.

Galileo suffered life imprisonment for challenging the fallacies of his time. I simply hope that we see real results from all the research Nasa has been doing. So far the results I see are nukes, cruise missiles, and diet pills

How about some more AIDS research and prevention. How about work on biofuels.

I never said science was bad. But stupid science is really bad. Just ask NASA scientist James Hansen! There have been plenty of "scientists" working on convincing us that Global warming doesn't exist for 20 years now and I suspect that science at NASA has been bought and sold to the lowest Military bidder.

The Space program initially had motives. They were to fight the cold war by bring up a generation of engineers, but also to build up the military industrial complex. I want to see a real initiative come out of Washington scientists: Like fixing the carbon emissions debacle, or really researching and developing vaccines. So far, and I imagine you agree... this administration has done nothing at all but pay lip service to the real scientific challenges of today. I think we probably see eye to eye on this. Maybe I'm just not seeing the host of benefits that research into space travel has brought other fields. I'm sure there is some contribution there, but it seems pretty marginal to the non-scientist.

And didn't scientists prove the world was spherical from down here on earth?

On EDIT: I should be fair to NASA scientists like James Hansen. I believe that policy and not science is often to blame for the inanity of political motivations for R&D... I don't think initially I was that fair.

[Ghost Dog]

28. Water.

...Dr Tom Pike of Imperial College, London, is part of the British team involved in the project.

"The main goal of the mission is to get below the surface of Mars to where we are almost certain there is water," he told BBC News.

He said orbiters flying around Mars had surveyed the landing site in great detail and found signs that water ice is buried 10cm or less below the surface.

"Water, of course, is of critical importance because it is one of the building blocks - one of the essential habitats we need - for life," he said...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7411113.stm

[happydreams]

21. K&R! .....

(((Even if it is a hoax))).

[ClayZ]

23. Yay! K and R

[geiger]

25. HISTORICAL NOTE:

1961 - In a speech delivered this day (May 25), President John F. Kennedy challenged the American people to place a man on the Moon by the end of the decade

[heliarc]

30. I hope Obama challenges the American people

to put a man in a house that isn't going to foreclose. I hope he includes a woman and children in that challenge too.

[greiner3]

26. Next major university courses;

Xenobiology. Sign me up!

[heliarc]

31. You forgot Xenophobiology.

That's a course credit at Oral Roberts University.