Comments on: Martian Meteor

By: Bob Allee

Bob Allee — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:25:36 +0000

Hey Phil, it would be interesting to know approximate burn difference of a meteor in the earth atmosphere and the martian atmosphere. In other words, what would the difference in appearance be as well as the meteorite when it hits. Just curious. Checking out and if I find anything, I’ll post.
The other BA

By: tjm220

tjm220 — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:11:05 +0000

Isn’t “Sprit” supposed to have a pair of i’s?

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 04:19:41 +0000

Oops! I thought I had checked that. I’ll correct it now. Thanks!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:11:13 +0000

Umm… a tiny correction Phil. It was the Spirit rover that took the image, not Opportunity. See http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040311a.html and scroll about three quarters the way down the page. That page also has an image of the Earth from the surface of Mars which is pretty cool.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 23:25:53 +0000

That’s a cool picture (and a lucky one). One of my favorite pictures is the one containing images of Martian solar eclipses: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/images.cfm?id=1086

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 23:21:28 +0000

PN!, I’d add Cassini to that list of Things NASA Has Done Right. I remember how that probe almost got scuttled because of fears that the rocket would explode and release nuclear nastiness that was in the probe.

By: Project Nothing!

Project Nothing! — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:32:28 +0000

NASA gets one right

NASA, which routinely crashes $800 million probes into random cosmological objects, deserves heaps of praise for it’s Mars Rover Mission.
The two rovers have been kicking all kinds of scientific ass on the surface of Mars for the past year an…

By: monolithfoo

monolithfoo — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:08:49 +0000

Awsome! Thank you! Bad Astronomer, Scientists and Engineers on the mars rover project, I KISS you!