A good week for space exploration...
As half the world is reporting, NASA's Spirit rover[1] has landed safely on Mars and is sending back pictures like there's no tomorrow, albeit only black-and-white ones until later today.
Getting slightly less coverage, but also noteworthy, Stardust made a successful flyby of comet Wild 2 on Friday, collecting samples of the particles in its coma for return to Earth.
What with another Mars rover en route, Mars Express settling into its orbit ready to begin mapping, and Cassini-Huygens due to arrive at Saturn in July it's going to be an interesting year...
[1]While I applaud NASA's efforts in making the site accessible to children and those without a scientific/engineering background, did they have to dumb the page down that much? Especially as it gets pretty techie, pretty quickly, if you follow the links.
Getting slightly less coverage, but also noteworthy, Stardust made a successful flyby of comet Wild 2 on Friday, collecting samples of the particles in its coma for return to Earth.
What with another Mars rover en route, Mars Express settling into its orbit ready to begin mapping, and Cassini-Huygens due to arrive at Saturn in July it's going to be an interesting year...
[1]While I applaud NASA's efforts in making the site accessible to children and those without a scientific/engineering background, did they have to dumb the page down that much? Especially as it gets pretty techie, pretty quickly, if you follow the links.