Friday, April 22, 2005

Rich Zurek And The Mystery Of The Disappearing Spacecraft





"In fact, two-thirds of all international missions to the red planet have failed. It isn't trivial getting spacecraft safely to a planet that is hundreds of thousands of miles away, and solving some of the mysteries surrounding those that were lost will help future missions be successful."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Of course, the conspiracy theory take on these "failed missions" is that at least some them were deliberately "failed" and secretly reactivated in order to study the (also secret) known artifacts of the ancient Martian civilization.
--WMB

JohnFen said...

Hey, so long as they're sending a "planetary microscope" to Mars, I wonder if they'll take any good pictures of the anomalies?

If I were running the show, the anomalies woudl take a slightly higher priority over the beagle.

Mac said...

Perhaps needless to say, I agree. Specifically, let's get an extreme close-up of the "eye" on the west side of the Face.