In case you missed it, we're landing on Mars Sunday.

[CessnaDriver]

No sissy airbags this time either.
Good ol landing gear and retro-rockets!




http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/images/080522entry.jpg


http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/wp-content/assets/6/143/picture1.jpg


Phoenix lander nears its martian destination

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/080522landingpre.html

[Averone]

YES!!!

VERY COOL! One can only dream maybe in my lifetime we will have men on Mars!

[CessnaDriver]

YES!!!

VERY COOL! One can only dream maybe in my lifetime we will have men on Mars!

But Mars needs women! ;)

Indeed! I want to see footprints made on Mars before I die.

[CessnaDriver]

Landing day events vid.....

Phoenix Mars Lander: 7 minutes of Terror

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TaP8YMM524

[Kirk Durfey]

Working at Lockheed, I am quite excited by this :buttrock:

[armitage]

Does it really matter?
NASA hides the findings of their discoveries from the general public.
They've been lying to us for years.

[CessnaDriver]

Does it really matter?
NASA hides the findings of their discoveries from the general public.
They've been lying to us for years.


shhhhhh

Your going to blow my cover.

[armitage]

shhhhhh

Your going to blow my cover.

:laugh:
I swear I wont say another word, just please don't send the men in the black suits to my house.:sly2: :confused2

[CessnaDriver]

:laugh:
I swear I wont say another word, just please don't send the men in the black suits to my house.:sly2: :confused2

We'll just forget about all this.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii44/CessnaDriver/mib11.gif

[AsOneDead]

They should try landing on the moon first. :rolleyes:

[HalJordanFan]

They should try landing on the moon first. :rolleyes:



LOL!!

[Zurbaran1]

They should try landing on the moon first. :rolleyes:


They already did. :)

[CessnaDriver]

They already did. :)


And will again. To stay.

NASA animation about the constellation program
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2fhVnTuxv4


The engines and craft are in design stages now.
Even lunar descent engine tests have occured.

[cyberstatue]

Does it really matter?
NASA hides the findings of their discoveries from the general public.
They've been lying to us for years.

They even hid the attempted Gou'uld invasion and our failure to knock them out with nukes. All of us would be dead if a few brave men and woman hadn't disobeyed orders. :confused2

[CessnaDriver]

The truth!
You better be prepared for it though.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KEueJnsu80

;)



Live updates for Phoenix Mars lander here....

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/status.html

Mere hours now away from touchdown.
Hoping all goes well, and we have new pictures from the polar regions of Mars today. :thumbs2:

[CessnaDriver]

Welcome to the polar regions of Mars....

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images/gallery/lg_433.jpg

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images/gallery/lg_437.jpg

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images/gallery/lg_440.jpg

[rilynil]

Those pics are fascinating!

[rychehitman]

indeed they are!

[Nitefall]

indeed they are!

:thumbs2:

[CessnaDriver]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/images/color1.jpg

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/images/color2.jpg

[Endless Wake]

They already found signs of intelligent life;

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d100/endlesswake/2008/martian.jpg

[ashley76]

I don't understand why NASA has to add the red tint to the pictures...

[rychehitman]

and they way they add the cheesiness to the moon pictures..sheesh!:)

[armitage]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9075306542842977658


Here are direct links
to original NASA photos, which were obviously photoshopped to eliminate evidence of something.
http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/cgi-bin/clementine/clib/multires.pl?clickres=5&ox=0&oy=0&res=0&size=768&latitude=-70&longitude=137&submit=Use+Lat%252FLong&sensor=UVVIS&filter=415_nm
http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/cgi-bin/clementine/clib/multires.pl?clickres=5&ox=0&oy=0&res=0&size=768&latitude=-72&longitude=108&submit=Use+Lat%252FLong&sensor=UVVIS&filter=415_nm

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2005/088/5b-088-E0101728.jpg
These
are supposed to be sand dunes??

[riderV3]

are supposed to be sand dunes??

Those are martian coffee beans.

[CessnaDriver]

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to image Phoenix under parachute heading in for landing.
Not much to look at but the fact they got a picture of this event at all is very impressive.....


http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/images/mroparachute.jpg

[CessnaDriver]

Now this one is impressive, The wide picture that captured the descent parachute and lander in the act.

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/HiBlog/wp-content/uploads/PSP_008579_9020_descent.jpg

[Jesse321]

They already found signs of intelligent life;

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d100/endlesswake/2008/martian.jpg

OMG!!! :eek: THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!!!

:eek: CROCS COME FROM MARS!!!! :eek: