Spirit probe reaches Mars Today...

mike65 · 03-01-2004 2:17pm #1

After 7 months, the latest of what seems like a production lines' worth of probes is about to make mars-fall. This mission being another to gather and analyise soil samples from the red planet. A second probe Oppotunity will land/crash on Jan 25th.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/rocknroll01.html

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/03/nasa_mars_probe_in_for_rough_ride/

Mike.

bizmark · 04-01-2004 4:22am

is that the one that carries the rover ?

SkepticOne · 04-01-2004 10:08am

Early B&W panorama here. Colour images expected to be available late Sunday.

halenger · 04-01-2004 12:59pm

Lets all be thankful this one didn't go awol too.

This time they were aiming for a crater, if I'm not mistaken.

GuanYin · 04-01-2004 8:04pm

not impressed by the images in the press release.
One was of a bloody wheel!

Hopefully things will improve tomorrow.

Redshift · 04-01-2004 10:26pm

It's good to see some success in this area for a change, I'm delighted that the probe made it down intact and appears to be fully functional, Heres hoping the oppertunity probe will have an equally safe landing. Can't wait to see some hi-res colour images.

bizmark · 04-01-2004 10:41pm

i though that rover was one on the most advanaced mini labs sent to mars ? and it cant send back color images?

it couldnt be that hard to install a color camra surely they dont weigh more

Capt'n Midnight · 04-01-2004 11:21pm

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

Redshift · 05-01-2004 1:24am

Originally posted by bizmark
i though that rover was one on the most advanaced mini labs sent to mars ? and it cant send back color images?

it couldnt be that hard to install a color camra surely they dont weigh more

Actually it has an advanced stereo colour camera from which they hope to get hi-res colour images from soon. The B&W images are from the navigation camera.