It's Really Red! (No Green Men!) Pictures From Mars Landing!

May 27, 2008

NASA is looking for life on Mars and just released pictures from an unexplored region of the red planet. The Mars Phoenix lander traveled 430 million miles from Earth and took 10 months to reach its destination. The mission cost $457 million, including $37 million from Canada.

The lander has a robotic arm, which will search for ice, aka water, on the planet. NASA scientists, almost certain that Mars has some conditions for life, are looking for proof. So far, there have been no complications!

Considering 50 percent of Mars missions fail, do you think this project is worth the exorbitant amount of money? Is financing scientific discoveries not immediately relevant to your everyday life still an important function of government? Check out these great pictures from the Martian planet!

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18 Comments

LesleyP825 4 years 51 weeks

Wow! Amazing!!

LesleyP825 4 years 51 weeks

Wow! Amazing!!

LibertySugar 4 years 51 weeks

Thanks, popgoestheworld! Fixed it. :) Glad you checked out all the pictures!

popgoestheworld 4 years 51 weeks

I'm such a geek that I can't help but love it. It's definitely expensive, no question about that. Seems worth it somehow though.(Side note to Libery: "Do you they'll find life?" is the caption on photo 10. I think "think" should be added!)

popgoestheworld 4 years 51 weeks

I'm such a geek that I can't help but love it. It's definitely expensive, no question about that. Seems worth it somehow though. (Side note to Libery: "Do you they'll find life?" is the caption on photo 10. I think "think" should be added!)

hypnoticmix 4 years 51 weeks

Sure it's worth it our species is still in its intellectual infancy and with all due respect to any scholars in the room we are still learning how to walk.

j2e1n9 4 years 51 weeks

So weird to see COLOR pictures of another planet. I can totally picture an alien walking around in that fourth picture. Outerspace scares me for some reason. :P

Kimpossible 4 years 51 weeks

I think this is very exciting. Looking forward to hearing more.

KrisSugar 4 years 51 weeks

good morning ya'll! you are right, YY!

KrisSugar 4 years 51 weeks

good morning ya'll! you are right, YY!

yesteryear 4 years 51 weeks

i think it's awesome. i came home sunday afternoon for a half hour just to watch the landing live on CNN and it was very exciting. and yeah it's expensive, but these aren't exactly the type of things you can just cancel 3/4 of the way through. when this project was initiated we weren't facing a recession and other economic issues like we are today.

yesteryear 4 years 51 weeks