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Nov 11 2004, 11:46 PM
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http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, are Europe’s highest-resolution pictures so far of the Martian moon Phobos. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEM21TVJD1E_0.html |
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Oct 15 2007, 03:00 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Great stuff, Phil & Stu!!! Now I know exactly how Phobos must have appeared to the crew of the spacecraft Rolling Stone as it approached Phobos in Heinlein's immortal novel...absent the industrial complexes and filled landing berths, of course...
Quick inspiration: we sense therefore we are unmanned and alone solitary robots peer deeply into the Unknown seeing, tasting, hearing that which no human has yet known, like a splash of water or blast of radiation on tender skins We, safe in the cradle, see vistas dreamed of yearned for, in our infant dreams by generations denied their future by tumult, by the restless and capricious nature of our species by priorities, set too often by those who cannot see far horizons, even through eyes of silicon, gallium arsinide, feed horns and reflectors... blindness is inexcusable as the spectrum of the Universe unveils itself, reluctantly, as bigger than our minds what challenge, what wonder, can possibly compare? we must see, at least in order that someday we may touch -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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