mar rover Oppurtunity seen from space

[HomeBrewerDude]

link:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/opportunity_mro_big.jpg


apod link
nasa rover link

 

[dmcowen674]

Very cool

 

[MisterJackson]

Yeah, my friend sent me this last week and commented "Why can't we see the lunar landing equipment if we can see this?"

<____Waits for someone to label me a conspiracy theorist.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Yeah, my friend sent me this last week and commented "Why can't we see the lunar landing equipment if we can see this?"

<____Waits for someone to label me a conspiracy theorist.

LOL
I was just wondering the same thiing.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Yeah, my friend sent me this last week and commented "Why can't we see the lunar landing equipment if we can see this?"

<____Waits for someone to label me a conspiracy theorist.

For the same reason you can't see a McDonald's when you are looking in your bathroom. It all depends on where you point your lense.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Yeah, my friend sent me this last week and commented "Why can't we see the lunar landing equipment if we can see this?"

<____Waits for someone to label me a conspiracy theorist.

Maybe because we don't have any hi-res sats orbiting the moon?

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Yeah, my friend sent me this last week and commented "Why can't we see the lunar landing equipment if we can see this?"

<____Waits for someone to label me a conspiracy theorist.

Maybe because we don't have any hi-res sats orbiting the moon?

Winner
There is a mission in a few years that weill be able to see the Apollo sites. Don't recall the name off hand.

 

[WolverineGator]

Go little guy! Go!

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Where are the Transformer foot prints?

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Yeah, my friend sent me this last week and commented "Why can't we see the lunar landing equipment if we can see this?"

<____Waits for someone to label me a conspiracy theorist.

Maybe because we don't have any hi-res sats orbiting the moon?

Winner
There is a mission in a few years that weill be able to see the Apollo sites. Don't recall the name off hand.

Found it: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, planned launch in 2008
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/060207_lro_technology.html

"We will image the Apollo sites and you will see the descent stages sitting on the surface," Robinson said. LROC will clearly see the overall shape of that landing hardware, but won't be able to resolve such things as the insignia on the side of the descent stage, or see the stripes on astronaut-planted flags"

 

[ForumMaster]

cool pics!

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
cool pics!

Definitely!