See Mars
 

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/pr...Deck_L257F.jpg

Loading this huge panorama takes time. Really. It was put together from over 800 highres pics. So: give it that time. :know:

125 Mt - big pic. Downloading it now as Mozilla browser opted not to co-operate.

EDIT: ...and my poor old Acer Travelmate proved to be underpowered to handle it. :o Gonna get new GPU for my desktop tomorrow. Will try again then. :yep:

Now that would be the ideal place for my ex mother in law to go and live :D

Sod off, send her to Venus, I want to go to Mars one day! :O:

Venus and Mars are relatively close. Would she be good mechanic for Voyager 1 maintenance mission? :hmmm:


:O:

Hell, no. We don't want all the Venusian dinosaurs to become extinct before we even find them, do we?

The first images of Mars were sent back as raw data and a person at NASA had to color a piece of paper to transcribe the data in to an image with a bunch of pencils.

We have come a long way.

Shame we can't breathe on the red planet. It looks so much similar to Earth's deserts, just tinged red. Great pic, despite taking forever to load.

Breathing is not the problem on Mars, its the lack of pressure. Air tanks are not that difficult to carry around and work with, but the problem is we need bulky pressure suits. The current generation of space suits are very cumbersome to use.

The pressure at the surface of Mars is equal to 50,000 feet above sea level here on Earth. Plus there is a lot more radiation on the surface.

Should have said "Breathe without a suit and tank"

I find that Nasa picture - as the others from Mars before - quite sobering, disillusioning. And maybe that is a good thing.

However, we have come far from there v to here ^

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