Comments on: Mars Polar Lander, found?

By: Crater Hale Revisited - Page 2 - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum

Crater Hale Revisited - Page 2 - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:54:16 +0000

[...] a couple examples of images of things on Mars taken from orbit. Not great, but examples still. From Bad Astronomy From the Planetary Society I was looking for a slightly more detailed article that included [...]

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By: L. Fuller

L. Fuller — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:07:25 +0000

The official Mars Climate Orbiter site:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/orbiter/

Nigel’s site seems to be biased towards conspiracy theory.

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Tue, 10 May 2005 21:45:55 +0000

Michelle, it was Mars Climate Orbiter, and the confusion was over pounds of thrust versus Newtons of thrust. For more info see here:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2191/MCO.htm

Did that come out as a hyperlink?

Anyway, amazing images, and pretty amazing that it is possible to infer such detail from images where the size of the object under observation is of the same order of magnitude as the resolution limit! Maybe with the next generation of cameras orbiting Mars they’ll even find tiny little Beagle 2 (or the remains thereof). Who’d have thought you could send a lander to Mars for less than $75,000,000? Oh … you can’t.

By: Michelle Rochon

Michelle Rochon — Sat, 07 May 2005 02:45:48 +0000

Well, golly! That’s amazing they could spot the baby… Didn’t someone also analyze Clementine images and find some Apollo??? It’s incredible what you can do sometimes!

I have a faint memory of something that crashed on Mars or didn’t reach it or whatever… I know they had mixed metric with inches. Which one was that again???

By: The Black Cat

The Black Cat — Fri, 06 May 2005 16:16:36 +0000

Very intersting. One quick question. How can we tell the black area near the lander (if that is what it really is) are blast marks and not “skid” marks, bounce marks, or debris from when the lander crashed? How do we know it didn’t dig up or knocked away some soil or lost some pieces and then continued moving a bit before coming to a stop?

By: Infinate Idiocy » Blog Archive » Mars Polar Lander

Infinate Idiocy » Blog Archive » Mars Polar Lander — Fri, 06 May 2005 14:39:11 +0000

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Interesting post about the possible finding of the Mars Polar Lander over at Bad Astronomy. I’m not too much of a science person, but I find it amazing the things we can do ho [...]