That's pretty neat. Here's another thing to add to it:
4 billion pixels panorama of Mars
Space exploration is really interesting. Though, when I think about the history and process of what we've been doing, I find it a little funny. I don't think it's wrong that we should test it out before sending humans into the unknown. We've just been launching satellites, probes, and spacecrafts into space to observe and collect data, and even crashing a few of them into planets and moons. There's just one concern that we don't accidentally contaminate an alien biosphere with on-board bacteria. There are a lot of spacecrafts out there already, and more being built as well as planned exploration launches.
There was a probe that crashed into Venus and took a few images on the surface before it melted. The moon and Mars have a few things like land rovers and path finders roaming about. There was the Galileo that was intentionally crashed into Jupiter. There are also things that actually landed on a few asteroids (most of them being in the Asteroid Belt which I find pretty amazing). One in particular called 433 Eros. It apparently has $492,187,500,000,000,000 worth of Platinum for the post above for asteroid/comet mining. There's also a funny/silly lawsuit that ended nowhere attached to it if it's not known already. Apparently, we'll be doing more of that.
Life on other planets has always been one of the great curiosities of mine. Venus and Mars are Earth-like and could be dubbed the two opposite fates of Earth; Venus is extremely hot, geologically active with volcanoes, and with a thick atmosphere while Mars is the opposite, being extremely cold and dry with a very thin atmosphere, while Earth is just right in the middle of them. Mars is still being explored, but would it surprise you if there were life of any sorts living on it (intelligent or not) and be a pretty big thing if it were discovered? It's apparent that there's nothing living on the surface, but there's a possibility of it underneath the surface where it's warmer. As stated above, NASA intentionally crashed a spacecraft (called Lunar Prospector) into the moon and discovered liquid water underneath its surface. It's not an ocean of water, but it's still interesting. Anyway, as of January 2014, NASA stated they currently looking for evidence of ancient life on Mars with their rovers (named Spirit and Opportunity). Mars is still full of mysteries, but it'd be pretty believable if it did have life on it at one point. Mars looks like it has empty and dry ocean riverbeds. It has polar caps like Earth which could also have liquid water underneath. It also has the largest shield volcano discovered in the solar system, which could probably mean it was a very geologically active planet at one point. The red sand that you see on Mars is actually rust, being a mixture metal/iron and water. These things might be known already, but oh well xD.
4 billion pixels panorama of Mars
Space exploration is really interesting. Though, when I think about the history and process of what we've been doing, I find it a little funny. I don't think it's wrong that we should test it out before sending humans into the unknown. We've just been launching satellites, probes, and spacecrafts into space to observe and collect data, and even crashing a few of them into planets and moons. There's just one concern that we don't accidentally contaminate an alien biosphere with on-board bacteria. There are a lot of spacecrafts out there already, and more being built as well as planned exploration launches.
There was a probe that crashed into Venus and took a few images on the surface before it melted. The moon and Mars have a few things like land rovers and path finders roaming about. There was the Galileo that was intentionally crashed into Jupiter. There are also things that actually landed on a few asteroids (most of them being in the Asteroid Belt which I find pretty amazing). One in particular called 433 Eros. It apparently has $492,187,500,000,000,000 worth of Platinum for the post above for asteroid/comet mining. There's also a funny/silly lawsuit that ended nowhere attached to it if it's not known already. Apparently, we'll be doing more of that.
Life on other planets has always been one of the great curiosities of mine. Venus and Mars are Earth-like and could be dubbed the two opposite fates of Earth; Venus is extremely hot, geologically active with volcanoes, and with a thick atmosphere while Mars is the opposite, being extremely cold and dry with a very thin atmosphere, while Earth is just right in the middle of them. Mars is still being explored, but would it surprise you if there were life of any sorts living on it (intelligent or not) and be a pretty big thing if it were discovered? It's apparent that there's nothing living on the surface, but there's a possibility of it underneath the surface where it's warmer. As stated above, NASA intentionally crashed a spacecraft (called Lunar Prospector) into the moon and discovered liquid water underneath its surface. It's not an ocean of water, but it's still interesting. Anyway, as of January 2014, NASA stated they currently looking for evidence of ancient life on Mars with their rovers (named Spirit and Opportunity). Mars is still full of mysteries, but it'd be pretty believable if it did have life on it at one point. Mars looks like it has empty and dry ocean riverbeds. It has polar caps like Earth which could also have liquid water underneath. It also has the largest shield volcano discovered in the solar system, which could probably mean it was a very geologically active planet at one point. The red sand that you see on Mars is actually rust, being a mixture metal/iron and water. These things might be known already, but oh well xD.