Isabella

For all of you out there who are interested and following the "Mission to Mars" .... finally, after 10 months, our Phoenix landed on Marts - SUCCESFULLY - I'm so excited and happy to see this happen . We should have pictures from Mars tonight around 9:45 (EST). Can't wait !!!

Coryd55

Neat. I hadn't heard anything about the mars thing in a while. Thanks for the update. Where will the pictures be at?

Isabella

Science channel and CNN are broadcasting the whole mission non-stop live

Coryd55

Cool. I'll probably turn it on about 9 30 haha

Isabella

Yes, you definitely should! I can't wait to see the pictures of Mars' north pole! LOL ... imagine it turns out little green people are running all over there, LOL !!! That would be hilarious!

Coryd55

I just flipped to CNN and Larry King live was on about american idol

Isabella

LOL ... . Well, CNN is broadcasting the Mars expedition intertwined with other news, so that's why . Science channel is now running some other program about future manned missions to Mars (imagine when it somes to that!). Later at 11:00 EST Science Channel should resume the broadcast on the current mission to Mars, hopefully with more pictures (so far I've only seen the edge of Phoenix and some sandy floor of Mars).

Coryd55

Gotcha. Is sci channel same as discovery?

Isabella

LOL ... nope, they're two different channels .

Coryd55

Yea I dont think we have science channel haha

Lucy

I saw part of it then switched to the race.

It is pretty exciting, race is over, I think I'll tune in.

Isabella

I'm a little disappointed that the program at 11:00 on Science Channel was just a repeat of the earlier broadcast . I thought they'd have a continuing coverage from the event. Anyway ... we'll probably have interesting pictures and more info going public in the next couple of days .

Coryd55

Here are images and video from the NASA website.

http://jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/images-all.php

Isabella

Thanks Cory ... LOL ... why didn't I think to look for the photos online?
The photos look ... very similar to previously taken photos of Mars, lol. I'm hoping they'll have them in color? Also ... I'd love to see some blue or while in them! (Indicating frozen water ... because blue water would be liquid water and there's no liquid water there as far as we know.)

COBettaCouple

I don't mind that they landed.. I disposed all evidence of the Martians when I 'accidentally' destroyed the planet.

Really, that's pretty cool.

Isabella

Of course Dave, of course ...

hockeyref88

Amazing achievement!!! They say its like teeing off in Washington D.C. and hitting a hole in one in Austrailia as far as the precision involved in navigation. Not to mention the difficulty in landing a craft with thrusters in stead of air bags to pinpoint the landing. Very difficult to do.Truely magnificent!!!

Isabella

Absolutely . I love astronomy and all that kind of stuff . This will never happen during my lifetime, but I hope human species will one day be able to travel the space, other stars, our entire galaxy, and other galaxies ... just imagine if we could do that! I believe it's possible ONE STEP AT A TIME. It gives me goose bumbs just thinking about all the possibilities. That is, we'll be able to do all this (in some hundreds or thousands of years) IF and ONLY IF humans don't destroy themselves with nuclear weapons first - and something tells me it will be very difficult for the world leaders and governments to "resist" . To waste such a wonderful future ahead of us and to destroy our only home planet Earth is a shame of unimaginable and unexplainable proportions.

Coryd55

What i cant wait for is commercial space travels. Open to everyone.Similar to a cruise.

angelfish220

"I'm sorry Mr. Principal, you see I forgot my note on Venus when we left for Mars! Seriously!"

I can see it now!

Isabella

Oh man ... keep dreaming ... FOR NOW . Right now, flights into Earth's orbit are only for the richest people in the world, not for us regular folks (unless you're terribly rich, lol). I think it will be a very looooooong time before space flight for ordinary civilians becomes (1) available and (2) affordable. For now, this is just a dream for most of us .

MagpieTear

Ya' know, when I was a little kid, the Apollo missions were winding down, and the shuttles came into being in my late teens-early twenties. I had this wild dream that there would be a mass exodus to the Moon and Mars, and Earth would end up almost empty of mankind. Seemed to fizzle out. I hope this rekindles the publics interest.


Dangit you kids, git off my lawn!

Coryd55

haha. I am no where close to filthy rich. I can barely keep 5 tanks running much less travel out of our world