View Part 1 Here Yesterday at a press conference at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting, members of the SAM* team reported on their initial findings. This is the moment we had all been waiting for. The verdict? The instruments work, and the dirt on Mars is very similar to other dirt on Mars. Good night, [...]
Photographs of the surface of Mars are beginning to trickle in from the newly deployed Curiosity rover—as well as photos of its descent. Judging by the most recent, first color photograph, it looks like the protective lens caps are still on, so don’t mind the fuzziness. Lens caps or not, Curiosity won’t be seeing any [...]
Congratulations to the MSL team and NASA JPL for the most flawless execution of an utterly insane plan. Our species has landed a goddamn truck on the surface of another world using a parachute and a flying crane. There are no words. The excitement in the control room as each stage went off was contagious, [...]
The Martians are back! If you recall, their first appearance was in a flash-forward comic—a fever dream of what manned explorations of Mars could become. So today there are more of them, but their grasp of English is a bit flawed (Or is it, held-up-mirror-to-popular-culture?). I know there are many questions, plot holes, inconsistencies, and [...]