So There’s A Lizard On Mars. No Big Deal.
A science blogger has been getting zoom-happy with the latest images from NASA’s Curiosity Rover. And he thinks he’s spotted a reptile.
A science blogger has been getting zoom-happy with the latest images from NASA’s Curiosity Rover. And he thinks he’s spotted a reptile.
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Nasa’s $800 million machines are looking for signs of life on the red planet. Instead, they’ve done this.
On another world, man-made objects are being buffeted by alien weather patterns. That’s pretty damn amazing.
The Red Planet is giving up her secrets at an alarming rate. Scientists at the European Space Agency recently showed off the latest evidence that Mars was once very Earthlike.
The red planet is shockingly pale underneath all that dust. Identity crisis!
It’s strange to see the Red Planet as a Blue Marble. Continents and seas take shape, familiar and yet alien.
You know your video has really gone viral when it gets its first parody.
Show-off.
Now that we’ve got rocks from all three places, it’s time for a pop quiz. We give you the rock, you give us the planet/moon.
The famed rover is shuffling along to Glenelg, about 400 meters away from where it landed. These images are from its first few days on the go.
NASA nerds are the best nerds.
This is a full-resolution version of the NASA Curiosity rover descent to Mars, taken by the MARDI descent imager.
If you were riding on the Mars Science Laboratory Descent Vehicle, that flying saucer-like shell that hovered above Curiosity’s parachute, it might have felt something like this. The series of still images were compiled by SpaceFlight101 .
Because Brit was once on Mars, remember? They have a lot to talk about.
Is anyone else constantly surprised by how Earth-like everything looks? Of course, what else would it look like?
Sure, everyone got all excited that Mars is now home to a fancy new rover. But how does the Red Planet stack up to us in terms of their Olympic performance? (via lettherebeblogs.tumblr.com)
“Until yesterday, my Twitter was pretty much a couple family members, sometimes a co-worker,” Bobak tells BuzzFeed. Also: He’s excited about “crazy science” — and has a girlfriend.
For Science!
Wow.
It’s not very big, and it might not look like much, but this photo, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite, captures the Curiosity as it’s parachuting to the surface. I’ve never seen anything like this before.
The happiest place on earth, at least for a few minutes last night, was the control room at the Jet Propulsion Lab.
The minute Curiosity landed this morning, NASA mission control went wild. It was touching.
You earned it, guys! Here are a bunch of NASA employees rightfully getting emotional about the Curiosity rover’s successful touchdown on Mars.
NASA’s $2.5 billion dollar project Mars rover, Curiosity, landed successfully on the red planet late last night. These are the first images it has sent back.
NASA’s historic robot-car invasion of the planet Mars prompted the nerdiest television celebration in recent memory.
NASA’s $2.6 billion rover, Curiosity, landed on Mars early Monday morning to search for life. The mission control team celebrated as the rover landed, and as the first images were broadcasted back to earth.
NASA has set up a live stream of this seminal event and it is fascinating. The rover is set to land on Mars at 1:31 AM ET today, Monday. Watch the mission live on NASA’s stream.
Mars One wants to colonize the Red Planet. To make it happen, they’re harnessing the power (and money) of reality TV.
Chart only goes up to 205 pounds, sorry.
