Saturday, March 7, 2009

PhotoHunt - Space

This is the Mars lander and rover. The lander (including air bag) is an engineering prototype. The rover is a non-functional model built by the JPL folks for display at the Air and Space Museum. In January 2004, NASA landed two rovers, Opportunity and Spirit on Mars and they have returned many images, as well as other data. Here are a few links to some of the images:

Sol 5 Postcard from Mars
Bonestell Panorama
Victoria Crater
Attacking Mars

Below is the Lego version of the rover which was given to me a few years ago.


6 comments:

jenny said...

Those are cool! Things like this do interst me---although my submission is a little more fiction than yours. Have a great weekend.

Lene said...

Wow! Soo cool!! My sun would have gone crazy to see this :)

Have a nice day :)

Anonymous said...

Very 'kewl' photos shared for this week's theme!!! I played too ;--)
Hugs and blessings,

maryt/theteach said...

Lew, you got the last line of the limerick on my blog! Congratulations! I will post a new one today... :)

maryt/theteach said...

Lew, I announced your getting the right line to end the limerick on my blog! Congrats! :)

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Have a nice day.