Greetings from Mars, wish you were here! The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has sent its very first hi-res *color* shots back from Mars... vacation postcards from another planet! I don't quite know why this is so thrilling to me... I mean, I'm not there (thank goodness, it's cold enough *here*, thanks), and it's just a big, red, rubbly desert... but it's a big, red, rubbly desert on *Mars*! It's one thing to see that reddish twinkle on the horizon, and another entirely to look at its surface up close. The most amusing aspect of this, though, is how they sent 3D images of the surface... they're stereo 3D, so today there were rooms full of reporters and noted scientists wearing funky red-and-blue glasses in cheap paper frames.
Posted by gris at January 6, 2004 01:50 PM
