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Some friends from the Mars program have built the excitement here in advance (Thanks Mark and Todd!).

My son built the LEGO Rover, festooned with sensors and radar dishes (the annotations are his). And I worked on fiberglassing the booster stage of my GLR Sledgehammer rocket this weekend.

The MRO launch in the background took the Orbiter to Mars on March 2006. It has the highest resolution camera in orbit around Mars and took an amazing shot yesterday of the Phoenix Mars Lander descending by parachute. (see below)

14 responses to “Mars Booster Club”

  1. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Phoenix descent , HiRISE photo of water artifacts:

    Phoenix HiRISEing It came from Mars

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  2. ` ®© ROBERTO CARBONI Avatar
    ` ®© ROBERTO CARBONI

    Wow..this is excellent, Fantastic shot,congrats

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  3. ▓▒░JASE░▒▓ Avatar
    ▓▒░JASE░▒▓

    the thumbnail is a bit rude.

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  4. msamaclean © Avatar
    msamaclean ©

    Yes, I’ve been on the NASA sight & Nasa TV today & the shot of Phoenix dropping in on Mars is just the coolest photo! 193 miles away, but spectacular!!! There is another shot, with more contrast. Now it can get down to business, after an 99.9% perfect decent & landing! HOO-YA!!!

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  5. angry shock Avatar
    angry shock

    @Jase: LOL! ;D

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  6. Cheap Tart Avatar
    Cheap Tart

    LOL!

    Space smooches,
    The Tart
    ; *

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  7. AGrinberg Avatar
    AGrinberg

    Wow – some news travels faster on Flickr!

    Cool use of tax dollars. So exciting.

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  8. drona Avatar
    drona

    Steve: Hmmm, Very very interesting thumbnail…but couldn’t resist clicking on it. Rocketry has interesting applications.
    🙂

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  9. !MimosaMicheMichelle! Avatar
    !MimosaMicheMichelle!

    I am very impressed with young Master Jurvetson, son of Steve! You did a great job! Good annotations too, well written and I am sure all correct. Enjoy your imaginary path to Mars. Steve too.

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  10. biotron Avatar
    biotron

    Jase – i was disappointed not to find the sort of Rick James "Flying V" future cello i had seen in the thumbnail…

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  11. Victor1 Avatar
    Victor1

    Level 3 is calling and… oh… interesting placement of rocket!

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  12. ahmedragabeg Avatar
    ahmedragabeg

    hello jurvetson you got me hooked with rocketry think please tell me where can i start to get going in this exciting field

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  13. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Depends on where you live… I can recommend a local NAR or Tripoli chapter if it’s in the U.S….

    thanks y’all…. you crack me up.

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  14. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    another amazing HiRISE shot

    Phobos Runt

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