[X] My Assistant

[djellison]

I know this picture doesnt look like much. It's grainy, it's bleached out quite a bit

But you owe it to yourselves to look at that picture, and think.

There is a rover climbing a hill on mars.

Isnt that amazing?

If you think hard enough - you can actually imagine being there. Walking with a rover, that we sent half a billion km's to a whole other world.

Sometimes, an image will just catch me off guard and I'll go "wow - LOOK at what we can do!"

Doug

[Tesheiner]

It is too easy to forget about it, specially because these pictures resamble places that we can find here on earth.

But actually and specially after finishing a full-res panorama I realize that I'm looking to a picture taken on *another world* just *few hours* ago.

And this is an incredible feat.

[dilo]

These "tele-presence" and "familiar place" sensations are even stronger looking this color image from same Sol...
Looking this, I'm more and more persuaded about the grat return from unmanned spaceflight for all umankind.
Sure, manned mission are more "romantic" and "old-fashion" style, but costs and risks are probably too high, compared to these great results.
And there is also a lesson learned for future explorations: continuous improvement of succesfull missions (Pathfinder=>Mer) is better than revolutionary and untested systems...

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