Top 5 2008 Space Moments

Discovery-News.com: We learned a lot about Earth and space in this last year. James Williams counts down his favorite space-related moments of 2008.

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[drewcarey619]

I realize there is only so much you can put into those mars rovers, but cant you put a better camera on those things?

[Saukko31]

Science is cool.

Happy birthday NASA and ISS.

[cras17]

Real astronomers don't use the imperial system.

Learn to Kelvin.

[cvgeeps]

A Question Do CMEs cause Heat Wave Days Here on Earth when during summer months the tempertures rise to 100 + degrees for several days or weeks I was just curious RSVP

[12TabulaRasa12]

2008! a planet! 25 light years!

[jjj5189]

thumbs up if you wached this on 11/11/11

[letmein548]

@drewcarey619 Sure. We can give them cameras that would make James Cameron green with envy. We just can't transmit the images back to Earth fast enough to make it worth the weight.

[monokhem]

@drewcarey619 These rovers are almost ten years old. Curiosity will have an HD camera.

[pharinyxtheplant667]

We barely found out about Auroras in 2008?

[alejandrocastr]

Here I leave some videos NA SA's extraordinary, I hope you enjoy, best regards

[queefswithahugecock]

why don't they fling a camera into a black hole and take video of it and put it on youtube and get 100,000,000 views and make bank!

[M4XC4V413R4]

@drewcarey619 they probably could (although the camera is not as bad as you probably think, go search some photos from the rover and you'll see that it's pretty high quality, super high-res panoramic pics), but we will always think that, we do have to take into consideration that when they start to send images, the technology is a year old or more (this for Mars) because of the travel time and the final assembly that is done way before they launch it, they can't be doing it near launch date.