Space happenin'
Saturday, January 15, 2005

Huygens is giving us an orange moon to add to our Red planet. And perhaps the first liquid observed beyond Earth in a place that is hopefully similar to Earth 4 Billion years ago.

On Mars, Opportunity is sniffing around its own remains, in this case its heat shield. And Spirit is near a ridge.

Deep impact is off on a delightfully simple mission - to set an 800 pound cannon ball in front of a comet and see what happens when it hits. It has the highest resolution cameras ever to be sent that deep into space. Graphic | Cheesy video.


---------------------posted by Caleb John Clark on 1/15/2005 01:28:59 PM


Titan Landing
Friday, January 14, 2005

Cassini's probe, Huygens, has landed on Titan and is sending back pictures and data. This is the first landing ever on Titan and the farthest from Earth we've ever successfully landed a spacecraft.




---------------------posted by Caleb John Clark on 1/14/2005 01:40:30 PM


High Resolution Tsunami photos
Friday, January 07, 2005

Strewn amid the mountains of media on the terrible Tsunami lie very few high resolution photos that can really show what happened and to whom. Here's some I've come across:

• Intense hi-res Satellite photos with "before and after" toggle button.

Military propaganda I know, but very hi-resolution from the Navy Pacific Command site.

• Best one: Check out the man in the middle left, smiling with his eyes closed and a box of food. Looks like maybe a fight for the food to the right, but on closer inspection, it seems probably those guys are just catching a fast moving box.
  

More, with particularly strong images of not only the tsunami effects, but how strange American Soldiers look in their alien pilot goggles and suits.

1. Rushing the chopper doors
2. Air shot with an alien in the left corner
3. Surrounding the alien who brings food
   
4. Loading alien
   
5. Houses leveled
6. Future soldiers

---------------------posted by Caleb John Clark on 1/07/2005 11:18:40 AM