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January 14, 2004
I tried to download a panoramic Mars image tonight. I wanted to move beyond Mars and deserts and Mars and frontiers.
I couldn't upload the image it was too big for my computer to upload. This then is a smaller image:
Mars Exploration Rover Mission
The full image can be found here The fullscreen 360 degrees panorama can be found here. Link courtesy of James' Mars blog.
The current Mars exploration by the rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, is for water, which is deemed essential for the formation of life. Or is it for minerals to mine as well? The rovers will be closely examining rocks.
Water. We take it for granted on earth. And we pass by rocks without looking at them
My mind has turned to Victor Harbor, rocks on the seashore, the southern ocean and people (and children) swimming in dangerous places such as Petrel Cove:
This place is very beautiful during summer, but it is full of dangerous rips. It used to be deserted, but it has become fashionable for the Adelaide holiday set. It has become a place for summer rituals and games in and around the swirling waters of the southern ocean.
The news tonight reported a child being swept away, yet again at Petrel Cove. This time fortune smiled.
Me, I just love the rocks: the detail in the landscape.
David T. Culverwell, Stones, Pt. Lobos, 1982
They help to define a place. They situate place and locate that place in a region.
Did you know? In talking about the power of place we are stepping beyond the horizons of philosophical and scientific modernity.
We can ask? Do machines on Mars have rituals? Or are rituals only for humans?
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nice photos you got here now,
i've just posted on how we need
Mars tax on pet food to get more photos from Mars.