mars" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />These are 2 animations of the Mars Rover from take-off all the way to the landing and rock collecting. The first one is for the 2007 Mars landing and the second one is what the a 2009 Mars mission may look like.
Here is the description of the video:
This animation visulaizes launch in August 2007 and entry, descent, and landing of the Phoenix Mars Mission in May 2008. .. The animation was created by Maas Digital under the direction of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Solar System Visualization Project.
This is a description of this video that is made up of very cool space images taken from NASA
A montage of recent NASA imagery including the STS121 Shuttle launch, photos from the Spirit Rover on Mars, repairs to the International Space Station, Hubble Telescope photos of planetary nebulae, repairs to the Hubble Telescope using space walks and a robotic arm, pictures from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Messenger mission to Mercury, and NASA’s planned nuclear powered space engine to be used in exploring the moons of Jupiter.
Where space exploration and our imagination took off!
July 1950 with the launch of a space rocket at Cape Canaveral by NASA. Almost 60 years later we have so much to show for that first big step… all the cool pictures for one.
Mars rovers, International space stations, Space shuttles… WOW, I can’t even imagine what 60 more years or so will bring. Well, yes I can.
First Launch
A new chapter in space flight began in July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla: the Bumper 2, an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a V-2 missile base with a Corporal rocket. The upper stage was able to reach then-record altitudes of almost 250 miles, higher than the International Space Station’s orbit.
Launched under the direction of the General Electric Company, Bumper 2 was used primarily for testing rocket systems and for research on the upper atmosphere. The rockets carried small payloads that allowed them to measure attributes including air temperature and cosmic ray impacts. Seven years later, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I and Sputnik II, the first satellites into Earth orbit.
mars" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />These are 2 animations of the Mars Rover from take-off all the way to the landing and rock collecting. The first one is for the 2007 Mars landing and the second one is what the a 2009 Mars mission may look like.
