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I agree with karov.

I mean, take away the distance problems and compare both Mars and Titan side-by-side, I think it would be quite a bit easier to get humans down on Titan than on Mars. Mars has the severe problems with pressure and radiation(seemingly), where as with Titan, yes, it's incredibly cold, no doubt, but you don't have the pressure or radiation problems(i'm under the impression there is no radiation problem on Titan). So as karov mentioned, the buildings don't need to be pressurized and *sealed off* like those on Mars would be, and they could be heated inside with appropriate temperature regulators and likewise kept cool in labs.

The thing is, I'm not sure what kind of suit would be needed to keep the human body warm in such horribly cold temperatures like around -180 degrees C. I don't know if we have that kind of suit technology yet.

Despite the fact that the planets Uranus and Neptune seem to be less popular than most of the other planets in our Solar System, I think they are quite fascinating. They are gas giants, but I think there are surely some moons around them that could be quite interesting to study or even explore.

The biggest thing happening in the outer solar system in recent times will be the Cassini-Huygens project. With the Cassini studying the Saturnian system and the Huygens probe going down to Saturn's moon Titan.

It'll be interesting once the rover makes it's way up and past that horizon, it seems as though it's on a slope at the moment.

Yes, the soil in Meridiani Planum does look more like that from a riverbed, or soil close to and around a river. Gusev crater has a more baron and dry look about it. Load up both color images of Gusev and Meridiani, and the ground looks alot different, in my opinion.

Smart move to put a second rover in a completely different location.

Well, hopefully Spirit will be back on track 100 percent in the near future and continue with it's experiments and things go smoothly with Opportunity, we will be experiencing alot with BOTH sites.:)

Both sites are interesting in their own respects, but which one do you find more fascinating, whether it'd be from a scientific or geological perspective? Also, which one do you find overall more attractive looking?

Oh ok, also, the next briefing is 2:00AM PST, what time is it currently in PST? or, how long to go before that briefing? It's one I don't want to miss, it should be very interesting to see what they say about the images.

Looks like things look very good for Opportunity at the moment, great stuff. Hopefully it'll be able to unfold itself succesfully and roll off the lander and begin exploration. It'll be interesting to see what photos it beams back because apparently Medriani Platnum looks quite different to Gusev Crater.

That is a simply gargantuan star/sun in size. Just shows you the kind of things that are out there. It's a blue on too! I wonder what other colors there are. It's like something a little bit out of that movie Pitch Black with the blue sun.

Apparently, in the movie, if I'm not mistaken, the deformations as seen on the Human Mars citizens was due to cheaper domes and extended periods of exposure to radiation due to the cheaper domes, something like that.

With the domes, they had windows where you could browse to see the surface of Mars, the expansive deserts and rooms and facilities built into mountains. The windows must've been a very thick, i'm not sure what they would be made of, but they also had emergency shutters that close if the were smashed.

You know, watching the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Recall and how on Mars it's been seemingly terraformed to some extent, has a rail system, colonies and domes across certain parts of the planet, it all seemed so far-fetched at the time of the movies release(1989 I believe), but now 15 years later or so, it doesn't seem quite so far-fetched. Personally, I see a scenario much like this beginning to happen or at least in it's early stages within the next 50 years or so, except it won't be quite so developed and will only house scientists and terraformers and the like - and perhaps incredibly wealthy people might be able to go there for a designated period of time for a price. Your thoughts?

This is really fantastic news! Congrats to NASA for such a fine landing with the Spirit Rover. Hopefully the landing of Opportunity will go just as well if not better(if such a thing is possible!). Will be an exciting year for Mars!