Artist's depiction of
Phoenix landing
Image via Wikimedia CommonsThe Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars. We watched.
My son said "this is my generation's moon landing..." That may have been hyperbolic on his part but it WAS exciting... and a bit freaky to realise that the "now" was actually "10 minutes ago" due to transmission delay.
That another spacecraft managed to get a picture of Phoenix's parachute during the descent is ragingly cool.
So why did we need a Canadian network to bring it to us? ... seems it was too uncool/geeky for US networks.
Well I'm just glad someone was carrying it.
Did you watch? What did you think?
Artist's depiction of
Phoenix on Mars
Image via Wikimedia Common
2 comments:
This generation's moon landing? Bollocks.
He's 16... I don't think I agree with him either. :) But it was cool anyway.
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