Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Surprisingly, this wasn't bound for Mars


A research satellite sent up into space to study how much carbon dioxide is absorbed by specific things on the planet... didn't quite reach its destination.

It didn't manage to get into orbit, so gravity pulled it right back down into the drink.

You can read about it here.

1 comment:

Justin said...

Sorry about being way off topic here, but how do you get to the public safety building from samuelson? Where can we park?