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Browsing Posts published on May 27, 2008

There were rumours all day that the MRO HiRise camera had another great image on it’s way back to us on planet Earth.  Here it is, superb clarity, all the elements of the mission (minus the crew stage which probably burnt up) are in this shot.  

Missed a trick there

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The Phoenix mission seems to be shifting focus away from pure science, and back to humanity. It’s like the late great Carl Sagan has touched this mission from the beyond (he’d love that idea!) Not only did we have the amazing photo of Phoenix’s EDL (which provokes in me the same silent awe, feelings of [...]

NASA TV hi-res Streams

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Living in the UK, I don’t have easy access to NASA TV except through the on-line web streams. You can view NASA TV directly from the NASA website, but if you look around you can find better quality stream out there. You could try this one which is a blistering 1200kbps, which is too fast [...]

Most amazing photo ever.

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Spacefans, Just take a moment here to look at the picture above and be still in contemplation. This digital image was taken by the HiRISE camera (the most powerful camera ever flown in space (except for the HS telescope)) on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, in orbit around Mars. As I’m sure you’ve worked out, [...]