Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Mars
In JB's 1994 album, Fruitcakes, he sang about the August 21, 1993 tragic loss of NASA's Mars Observer thusly:
"We lost our martian rocket ship
The high paid spokesman said
Looks like that silly rocket ship
Has lost it’s cone shaped head"
The world's exploration of Mars has recently gone significantly better!
NASA's twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity have celebrated over a year on the Martian surface and like the Energizer Bunny are still going!
Today the European Space Agency announced that their Mars Express orbiter has found a sea of water ice on Mars.
As a child of the "Sputnik Generation" and a near "Trekkie" these remarkable accomplishments thrill me!
"We lost our martian rocket ship
The high paid spokesman said
Looks like that silly rocket ship
Has lost it’s cone shaped head"
The world's exploration of Mars has recently gone significantly better!
NASA's twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity have celebrated over a year on the Martian surface and like the Energizer Bunny are still going!
Today the European Space Agency announced that their Mars Express orbiter has found a sea of water ice on Mars.
As a child of the "Sputnik Generation" and a near "Trekkie" these remarkable accomplishments thrill me!
