Meanwhile on Mars
Yesterday evening an unmanned rocked carrying supplies for ISS exploded in midair. Noone was hurt and ISS is getting a Progress with supplies today but a lot of science experiments were lost in the explosion. So to think about more successful - like Mars missions.
Last month Curiosity has reached her destination - Mount Sharp, the Kilimanjaro-sized mountain it has been driving toward for much of the past two years.
There is a new country in the space science exploration - India has sent Mars its newest satellite. And it arrived just in time to experience comet coming to Mars with everyone else. All the orbitters hid behind Mars and it worked as all of them are sending us back the reports of their experience. The robots on Mars that were protected from the dust in the tail of Siding Spring by Martian atmosphere have been just standing there taking photos the whole time like any good tourist would. And of course so was everyone with the right telescope on Earth and around it.
But if you prefer to look at Mars itself instead of a blob of ice and dust passing it ESA has video from Mars Express with the flyover Mars terrain in 3D. Just need to find those 3D glasses somewhere.
And if we go there to see it in 3D ourselves it might be best if the whole crew were women or travel in a true SF way - asleep for the whole journey there and back as it's pretty hard to take enough food for the whole trip.
Last month Curiosity has reached her destination - Mount Sharp, the Kilimanjaro-sized mountain it has been driving toward for much of the past two years.
There is a new country in the space science exploration - India has sent Mars its newest satellite. And it arrived just in time to experience comet coming to Mars with everyone else. All the orbitters hid behind Mars and it worked as all of them are sending us back the reports of their experience. The robots on Mars that were protected from the dust in the tail of Siding Spring by Martian atmosphere have been just standing there taking photos the whole time like any good tourist would. And of course so was everyone with the right telescope on Earth and around it.
But if you prefer to look at Mars itself instead of a blob of ice and dust passing it ESA has video from Mars Express with the flyover Mars terrain in 3D. Just need to find those 3D glasses somewhere.
And if we go there to see it in 3D ourselves it might be best if the whole crew were women or travel in a true SF way - asleep for the whole journey there and back as it's pretty hard to take enough food for the whole trip.