17 January 2004 - hazard camera

A clear view of your wheels on the ground, small indistinct hazards in the middle distance, and on the horizon a great featureless glow of promise: One picture represents the whole spectrum of responses to the Bush space program. We humans are like the rover on Mars, we make our own decisions from the narrow circle we can see with the hazard avoidance camera—but for some reason we don’t come with a science camera.