Today (Nov 28) is apparently Red Planet Day - which celebrates the Mariner 4 launch in ‘64, the first successful spacecraft to fly by Mars and give us our first nice images.
Happy Red Planet day to all who celebrate. 🔴
📸 ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Happy Red Planet day to all who celebrate. 🔴
📸 ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Comments
If we smash them up, the become a beautiful ring system. They become the butterfly. Don't they want that already?! I would ...
I wonder if the ring system in formation would cause probes to crash even before the seven minutes of terror though ahahah.
On the other hand it might be an extreme way to start exploring the rest of the solar system and not only Mars :)
I mean, like if we don't nuke it (a tad over the top), then at least let's put a radio telescope on it for a few years and have it scan the sky pointing away from Mars over and over.
Can we please have an input field (like an alt-text field) that will allow us to provide proper credit and show it like a button on the image (like alt-text).
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