Nothing To Do, But What A View

June 27, 2013 – 10:12 pm

I wish Carl Sagan were alive to see this: a gigapixel panoramic view of the surface of Mars. Don’t forget to click the “full screen” button.

Posted by Malcolm on at 10:12 pm, filed under Technology. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

3 Comments

  1. JK says

    One has to wonder if Carl’d agree with this sentence:

    Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive–on Mars.

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/wsu-rcf062513.php

    Posted June 28, 2013 at 1:20 pm | Permalink
  2. Bill says

    @Malcolm–Beautiful! Thanks for finding this. Better use for my tax dollars than a lot of what they go far.

    @JK–Their ends justify their means. It was always my impression that the space probes were made as sterile as possible to prevent contaminating the site with Terran material or biologicals. They would be the first to scream if some finding turned out to be contamination from Earth.

    Posted June 28, 2013 at 2:14 pm | Permalink
  3. Bill says

    I find it amazing that when their particular goals are affected that scientists become the world’s biggest pragmatists. Yet when it is someone else’s goals, especially if in conflict with theirs, they are the prime ideologues.

    Posted June 28, 2013 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

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