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Date:
Sun, 1 June 2008 10:42 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Phoenix Mars Lander After My Marilisa Story
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UPDATES headline, chatter; graphic explains the components of the
Phoenix Mars Lander; 2c x 2 3/8 inches; 96.3 mm x 60.3 mm
Sun May 25, 10:26 PM ET
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Phoenix Mars Lander scientists celebrate after the Phoenix Mars Lander
spacecraft landed successfully in the first-ever touchdown near Mars' north pole at the mission control room
of the Jet Propulsion lab in Pasadena, California May 25, 2008. Shown (L-R) Barry Goldstein, JPL project
manager for NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, Ed Sedivy, Phoenix spacecraft manager, Lockheed Martin,
Phoenix principal investigator, Peter Smith (white hair) of the University of Arizona and Fuk Li, manager,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars Exploration Program.
REUTERS/Lawrence K. Ho/Pool (UNITED STATES)
Sun May 25, 9:08 PM ET |
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Phoenix Mars Lander scientists (L-R)
Barry Goldstein, JPL project manager for NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, Ed Weiler and Peter Smith
of the University of Arizona brief reporters at the mission control room of the Jet Propulsion lab in
Pasadena, California May 25, 2008.
REUTERS/Fred Prouser
Sun May 25, 10:13 PM ET |
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This Phoenix mini-DVD, made of silica glass launched in August 2007
on its way to Mars on the spacecraft Phoenix, is seen in this undated publicity photograph. It is encoded with
a collection of scientific and science-fiction texts about Mars, depictions of Mars in art and messages to future
settlers of Mars. Also included are 250,000 names of Planetary Society members and others who signed up \
to send their name to Mars.
REUTERS/The Planetary Society/Handout (UNITED STATES). NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES.
Tue May 27, 12:55 AM ET |
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NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander can be seen hanging from its parachute as it descends
to the Martian surface. Shown here is a 10 kilometer (6 mile) diameter crater informally called "Heimdall," in this image
captured from Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter May 27, 2008. The small science probe blazed through the salmon-colored
skies of Mars on Sunday, touching down on a frozen desert at the planet's north pole to search for water and assess conditions
for sustaining life, NASA officials said.
REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Handout.
FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.
Tue May 27, 3:43 PM ET |
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This color image, released by NASA on May 26, 2008, shows the American flag
and a mini-DVD on the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft's deck, which is about one meter above the Martian surface.
The mini-DVD from the Planetary Society contains a message to future Martian explorers, science fiction stories and
art inspired by the Red Planet, and the names of more than a quarter million earthlings.
REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech
/University of Arizona/Handout.
FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY.
NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.
Wed May 28, 8:11 PM ET |
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Phoenix Mars Lander scientist Peter Smith of the University of Arizona
celebrates after the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft landed successfully in the first-ever touchdown near
Mars' north pole at the mission control room of the Jet Propulsion lab in Pasadena, California May 25, 2008.
REUTERS/Lawrence K.
Ho/Pool
(UNITED STATES)
Sun May 25, 11:23 PM ET |
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Fuk Li, manager of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars Exploration Program, briefs reporters at JPL in Pasadena, California May 27, 2008.
The small science probe blazed through the salmon-colored skies of Mars on Sunday, touching
down on a frozen desert at the planet's north pole to search for water and assess conditions for
sustaining life, NASA officials said.
REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
(UNITED STATES)
Tue May 27, 3:23 PM ET |
This is certainly a coincidence, but I consider it a nice coincidence.
On May 20, 2008, I wrote in my ex-senior high school friends mailing list
the story about my high school experience of being in the same bus for the first time, continued by walking
along, with a girl named Marilisa, but without any words from my mouth, then she continued
with SMS. Although the term SMS sounds like today’s SMS message by phone, but actually what I meant was
the name of the bus.
In the seventies there were some Dodge buses operated in Jakarta, each had
different name and color according to the route. The SMS bus were blue in the body and white on top.
It was then followed by the news of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft landed
successfully in the first-ever touchdown near Mars' North Pole on May 25, 2008. The name of planet Mars is a little
bit like related with the name of my old friend Marilisa that I mentioned in that story.
What becomes more interesting was when on May 29, 2008, to support this Mars
story I browsed the internet to find related photos, and there was a photo of Peter Smith of the University of Arizona that
seem like related with my other letter that day. The letter was a joke about a song from D’Massive, an Indonesian group band,
with their latest hit "This Love Is Killing Me".
In that joke I wrote about "si Kapmu", that sounds like someone’s name
though originally in the song it was an Indonesian word "sikapmu" which means "your attitude". Then when I browsed
the Internet, there was a photo of Peter Smith from the University of Arizona pointing his finger to his cap.
And last but not least, of course Fuk Li
the manager of NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory Mars Exploration Program does not necessarily reflect my activity with
Marilisa.
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