Who Invited Cydonia Mensae?
All this landing on Mars stuff is great. I took two semesters of Astronomy in college, so that makes me an expert on space exploration (math/science credits don't write themselves, and UVA only lets you take Physics: How Things Work twice). I had a dream last night about flying spaceships through a massive forested planet with vertical rock formations that cut through the sky - probably had something to do with Chips Ahoy! after midnight. Or hitting my head on the ceiling fan yesterday. Got a little carried away playing Paula Abdul on guitar...oh yeah right, like you've never done that before.
All we're seeing on the news about Mars are rocks. Awesome crimson space rocks, but rocks nevertheless. But an atlas of the planet shows you the bigger picture. Olympus Mons is the biggest volcano in the solar system - all the Hawaiian islands could fit inside of it. Valles Marineris is a canyon that spans 20% of the planet and can be up to 4 miles deep. It's cool to think that future generations could be snowboarding down Olympus Mons or making crappy Chili's commercials with echoes in Valles Marineris. A girl can dream.
Looking ahead, missions scheduled to launch in 2011 will begin testing procedures to get humans on Mars. With most of earth explored, except for some underwater regions and that secret invisible island of midget sushi chefs at 20° 57'N, space travel marks the new age of exploration. There are billions of galaxies like ours, so the chances of eventually finding unimaginable planets with completely new landscapes are fairly good. What could be more exciting than that? Okay, I'll give you playing multipuck air hockey with Ving Rhames, but interplanetary exploration is a close second.
Thursday, February 12 at 7:03 PM
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