Being a medium level nerdlinger I’ve been cruising the webs in my few spare moments today looking at photos of the Phoenix explorer module that’s just landed on Mars. I especially get excited by the minute attention to detail required by the scientists, engineers and mechanics who work on the hardware that needs to withstand and function in the extremes of conditions of outer space and other worlds. So I was a bit shocked when I looked at this photo.

Engineers construct the Phoenix module using the latest in sticky tape technology