Fairing seperation reported. I assume this is real and not the timeline......

Lift off !!

I believe they said it would take a while before Earth like planets could be identified for certain, like 3 years. But I bet before three years they will say, "yes we have X number of dimming's that might be Earth like".
I expect many Earth like planets will be discovered.

If anyone on the planet Earth can get us out, it is Paolo !

Personally I have never been able to get excited about Cassini's images of Titan. They alwasy seem so fuzzy. Maybe some artist's interpreatations might be better ? I loved the Hugans images though.

Can anyone tell us how long Spitzer might operate for in its "warm" mission ?

Wow I did not know Emily was preggers again.......congrats !

And proberbly several earth like planets.

Not orange !!!mars is red/orange. Indigo green is what you need with white circles.......er not frost pockets......

I think the chute is erm mostly white ?

40 %...awesome. Drive drive drive !!!!!!!


oops...wrong way !...ha ha ha.

Anyone know how thick the "wire" was and was there back up circuits to power it and burn it through ?

My condolencies too.

I'd rather cope with hurricanes any day....at least you can see those coming.
From the pics it looked like a lot of new buildings were ok but the old ones crumbled badly.

I just don't see how 2 legs can be safe. If you think about it humans have 4 appendges, not 2 legs. We of course used to walk on 4 legs.......we only evolved to bi-pedal because that is what was needed to survive and evolve due to our enviroment ( open plains I beleive ).
So bottom line is, min of 4 legs makes sence.

By "back" do you mean bottem ? if so then thats the front ! right ?....lol. Took me a while to spot them, as I was looking in the wrong place.

This is a nice view.

Crater rim.

I think you reached perfection. Bravo !

Ah a 3 hour lunch and a siesta ?

Can we have a route map update ?

They should call her "Darwin". It was his anniversary recently. Though that won't proberbly please the creationalists...........

"Monkeys" on Mars....anyone ?

Hopefully someone from NASA will read our 10 or so comments and select a good name......LOL

All spacecraft with camera's give us a vision......so it's lame - imho.

20 more drives like that and she'll be there......no problems.

I agree they are all rubbishy names. Who on Earth selected these ?

I hope the old girl is not out of breath after driving 13 m !