US Mars rover landing Saturday

[sr71blackbird]

A pair of rovers (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=2&u=/nm/20040101/sc_nm/space_mars_dc) are in route to Mars and one will touch down this Saturday, the other in 3 weeks. These will be quite larger that that Sojourner shit box, and have many times the capability, so it could be good. This following the apparent loss of the British Beagle 2 rover last week. Hopefully this one lands ok, it'll use the same airbag cushioning to soften its landing. The bags will deploy and the craft will bounce along the ground for a few miles before coming to a stop. It'll open up slowly and unfold itself over the course of a week, and then we will look around through it, to see where we want to send it. Im not the biggest fan of the air bag thing. Here is what it'll look like, it'll be about the size of a golf cart.
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It'll open up slowly and unfold itself over the course of a week

Remember when it used to take two days to get from the bronx to Long Island?

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To borrow and change a phrase from alan shepard in The Right Stuff...

'Dear Lord... don't let this one Fuck Up...'

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Are we good or are we good? (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040104/ap_on_sc/mars_rover&cid=624&ncid=716)

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[TheMojoPin]

NASA: "We're back." (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/04/mars.rovers/index.html)

Good for us, goddammit.

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[furie]

Saddam said the destruction of Columbia was proof that God was angry with us. Does this mean we're back in favor? in order to be consistant, I'm sure Saddam would say so, if he didn't have a marine boot on his throat that is.


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[furie]

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pleasant landscape. which way is Mos Eisley?


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[high fly]

Last night on Art Bell, Richard Hoagland was on, desperately grasping at the limelight.
He was suggesting that these sort of alluvial deposits near the rover could very well have junked cars and stuff from a previous civilization that once lived on Mars.

Like always, he managed to namedrop Carl Sagan and Walter Cronkite, but surprisingly left out Walter's prediction that Hoagland would get a Nobel Prize...




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[Yerdaddy]

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[furie]

Richard Hoagland


i have no idea who that is.


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[The_Fat_Mole]

Last night on Art Bell, Richard Hoagland was on, desperately grasping at the limelight.
He was suggesting that these sort of alluvial deposits near the rover could very well have junked cars and stuff from a previous civilization that once lived on Mars.

Like always, he managed to namedrop Carl Sagan and Walter Cronkite, but surprisingly left out Walter's prediction that Hoagland would get a Nobel Prize...




" and they ask me why I drink"

Yeah but the same night Art Bell had another guest who played "funny 911 calls".
Anything that happens on Art Bell has as much scientific meret as the bible

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[high fly]

Hey look!
There's rocks up there!

I'd say that $400 million was money well spent.



(damn, rocks! ON MARS!! Fancy that).












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[MizzleTizzle]

Richard Hoagland was on Art Bell... i have no idea who that is.


Richard Hoagland once did some work for NASA. Because of this he states he has been a long-time member of NASA teams; and has taken the photos of the face and pyramids on Mars and made an Industry out of it.

Hoagland goes on Art a few times a year; each and every time promising something so Amazing and Shocking that it's a miracle no one has seen it; mostly with ancient civilizations. Nasa says they don't have photos of Mars cities; Hoagland builds the Straw Man that this means the photos, to be denied or hidden, must indeed exist.

Each time it's a 'revolutionary' discovery; and each and every time, he is full of shit.

All he has are those names drops. Lemme guess, I didn;t hear Hoagland last night, but I bet when he dropped Sagan's name [and I have met with Sagan about as much as Hoagland] he always prefaced it with "My Good Friend Carl Sagan" or "My Good Friend Arthur C. Clarke".

Art used to be interesting, because he had a funny, healyth skepticism about things the callers and guests brought up. That was the fun. Now Art is a shill for these people; ooh-ing and ahh-ing over each non-discovery.


In Short, Hoagland sells the cities of Mars to the UFO crowd. And he's quite a seller indeed. I'll guess he mentioned his "Mission Enterprise Project" which you find out, is a website of his rantings.

[high fly]

Last night Bell had on some guy claiming we didn't land on the moon, then he brought on Hoagland.

You're on the money about the namedropping.

I wasn't listening late, so I don't know if Richard has started bitching about the photos being doctored yet...



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We should fly to Jupiter. Did you know that you can fit like a thousand earths inside a Jupiter? That'd be so cool! We should try to do that! First we'd have to clone earth, though, 999 times but that should be pretty easy! Of course this means Pauly Shore will get cloned 999 times but well that's just the risk we're gonna have to take if this thing is gonna work!

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[MizzleTizzle]

we spent how much money for a couple of Emmerson Lake and Palmer album covers?


about $800 million dollars, or about 1% of the $87 Billion figure Bush said was needed for the fight on terrorism. As a percentage of the budget; NASA hovers a little over 1% [blue line below] lately, from a high in the 1970s Apollo to a low in 1986 Challenger, and again, with the Shuttle Debacle, probably more cuts.

The yellow line Entitlements is the sum total of social programs; or, as some would call it, money being collected from us and distributed to us, with the Gov. as middleman.

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[high fly]

(radio signal) ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE

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[furie]

USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.


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[FUNKMAN]

rover just snapped this pic:

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lets invest this money on earth' there is too much need here, millions starving and dying of disease...

the poor will be left to rot on earth while the rich sit on Mars sipping there Marvin Margueritas...

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[NewYorkDragons80]

The problem with Art Bell is that he has guests who make outrageous claims and never throws even the slightest skeptism at them. I was listening last week and someone was claiming how we never went to the moon. He made maddening statement after maddening statement and Art just continued agreeing. I would love to hear a debate on that show. Someone defending NASA against one of these clowns. It will probably never happen because it would put Art out of a job. I've steadily listened to this show for a few months and I have NEVER heard someone say "You think maybe you've taken a few liberties in connecting the dots?"

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WE HAVE COME TO SHARE WITH YOU THE FRUITS OF OUR KNOWLEDGE.


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[TheGameHHH]

i'm pretty excited about us landing on mars, considering its a very difficult thing to do. but i was really expecting better pictures, hopefully throughout the rest of the voyage we can snap some better photos.

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ESD, we could always kill Pauly Shore right before we clone the Earth. That way we would have 999 dead Pauly Shore's and we can toss them in bar's like they do with midgets.

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[reeshy]

Of course this means Pauly Shore will get cloned 999 times but well that's just the risk we're gonna have to take if this thing is gonna work!


Yea, but we'd also have 999 East Side Daves. 'shudder'!!!!!!

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[MizzleTizzle]

i'm pretty excited about us landing on mars, considering its a very difficult thing to do. but i was really expecting better pictures, hopefully throughout the rest of the voyage we can snap some better photos.


Agreed. But realize what the early photos were: Contingency Photos. That's the fancy term for "if the Lander stops transmitting in 5 minutes we'd like to know why.

So; the very first thing to do was to take a picture of the ground around it; in case it landed in some weird valley or at some crazy angle. Then a low-resolution sweep of the horizon. Again, this is in case the Lander craps out; you have at least that one quick shot.

The cameras have to be fully deployed, calibrated, all the science stuff; and then, with hope, some shots that will blow us away; again remembering that these landing sites are often chosen because they look flat and, well, boring; meaning a good chance of actually landing.

[furie]

any word yet from the beagle? I'm not gloating, just curious.


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[sr71blackbird]

Nothing from Beagle 2, its probably either destroyed or in a deep hole, it cant charge its batteries because its solar panels cant get enough light.
The Stardust probe we sent that just snapped some very impressive pictures of comet Wild 2 also got very lucky, it gathered some dust thats being blown away by the solar wind, and it will send back the samples to us in 2005, which will be very cool. Heres a pic of the comet....
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/54566main_stardust_1.jpg

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[sr71blackbird]

http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/n/001/2N126469447EDN0000P1503R0M1.JPG

The craft came to rest within Gusev Crater, which is good because it might have had water in it at one time and possibly theres a sign that life might have existed wherever there was water. What you see above is a view out towards the "horizon" which is really the craters edge. Picture the craft in a shallow bowl. If water was in here, it might have lapped up against there rocks, and if any life was in that water, it might have left a deposit on them. The actual bottom of the crater is likely under layers of windblown dust and sand from eons of wind, so the craft is sitting on whatever was blown into the crater. The crater itself was formed by an impact millions of years before.

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/54571main_gusevcrater_med.gif It looks like water might have flowed from the south-east into the crater along the route indicated by arrow.

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[high fly]

A pair of rovers (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=2&u=/nm/20040101/sc_nm/space_mars_dc) are in route to Mars and one will touch down this Saturday, the other in 3 weeks. These will be quite larger that that Sojourner shit box,


AWRIGHT! ROVER RACES ON MARS!

YAAY!

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How come Mars is filled with all these commie names?







....are commies from there?

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[high fly]

Imagine that, a crater on Mars named after Rudy Valli's mother!














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[FUNKMAN]

one step forward and two steps back... weren't we wearing these 3D glasses back in the 70's to see that Frankenstein movie:

i could see it now:

"okay people you are about to see some of the greatest technology of the 21st century but in order to see it it put on these 'cardboard glasses'...

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[high fly]

Hey look!
There's fuckin' ROCKS up there on Mars!
Amazing!
And what looks like dirt, too!


Not much else to report.
Show's over. We can all go home now.





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[furie]

....are commies from there?


why do you think they call them 'reds'


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[high fly]

Can't wait to see the rover sidle up to one-a them rocks and whip out it's hammer and whack it one, just to see how hard it is.

That's gonna be cooool!




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[sr71blackbird]

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This is kind of cool, I didnt realise that the rover will be able to travel this far, but the green dot above represents where the lander is right now. It will travel towards the edge of the crater (dark circle) and then head out to the right for approx 2 miles! All these craters and the features you see are all within the larger Gusev crater that it landed in.

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[sr71blackbird]

Apparently, its about to come down off the lander any time now and go about 10 feet in 2 minutes

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I'm hoping that the Mars lander will find the other things we've sent there with giant teeth marks in them. Now that would be cool...

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[high fly]

Looks like Mars had the Chicken Pox...

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[sr71blackbird]

Well, looks like we are 2 for 2, if anyones keeping score. This lander came down in a shallow crater as well, but this has a bonus, looks like we hit pay dirt with a crater with a rock outcrop. The soil is darker in this region because it might have high amounts of a type of hematite, which on Earth is a rock type in abundance where water use to be. The light colored rocks in the photo appear to be smooth, which to me could indicate that it is the result of the impact and the crater's origin. With luck, the outcropping hopefully will have some nooks and crannies where life might have hung out, if the crater ever held water and if there was water/life in this region. Hopefully this one wont be plagued with the same technical glitches its twin lander encountered. Also, this time, the air bags retracted better so it should roll down as it should, in 10 - 12 days or so.

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[sr71blackbird]

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Here is the rock outcroppings up near the craters rim. When they start showing color images, youll see that the sand is alot darker than the other landing site.

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[fluffernutter]

I just wonder why it is so important that we discover another planet. Not to sound incredibly ignorant here but what is the big deal? Isn't there anything more important that money that is being funnel towards the spae program that can be spent on things here in our country? I just don't give a damn about space. It's out there, leave it be. What, is there going to be businesses put there over time? I still remember hearing how there was going to be billboards put in space that we can see from earth so that even our skies will be polluted with corporate garbage.

Ok, I'm done.

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Most of our major everyday "domestic" technologies in the last 40 years have either come from something developed, invented or based in the military or the space program.

I say keep it. We'd be technoretarded without it within a decade.

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[sr71blackbird]

The main reason is that Mars is the closest planet to us and the best chance to see if there was ever life outside of Earth. I dont see any commercial value to it, purely scientific. It didnt cost a huge huge amount of money, compared to other programs we are involved in that really have no value to us, but which we spend many hundreds of times this amount on that few are even aware of. If they found a fossil on Mars, it will change alot of what we think about. If it wasnt for the the space program, there wouldnt be a computer in your house that your looking at right now. This stuff fuels so many other industries that make our lives easier and more enjoyable and interesting, not to mention expanding our knowledge.

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[fluffernutter]

It's not just this Mars thinger but I have always been not too ho-hum on the whole space program. Like i said, I am very ignorant to it so some edjamucation may help me out some. I did see Total Recall and the idea of Mars does kind of make my curiosity run.

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[sr71blackbird]

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Well, not knowing about it is understandable, because most people dont. See, the unvierse has a bunch of things in it, galaxies, solar systems, planets and stuff. In the beginning of the universe, space was full of dust and gasses left over from the "big bang" that created it. Heavier particles and gasses attracted the stuff that was close by and they kept getting bigger and more dense. As dust and gasses collected around them, some of those clumps of gasses and dust began attracting things close to them too, with a dense object in its middle and smaller denser objects circling that larger object. On a large scale, its called a galaxy. Similarly, within the galaxy, on a llocal level, the same type of process was at work and the dence object in the center became the sun and the smaller clumps became the planets. So, Earth and Mars and all the others all started out together at the same time (4.6 billion years ago) and since that time, on Earth at least, life arouse because of what we think of as a unique set of circumstances. What we are doing on Mars is to see if life could have existed there, because its similar in size to Earth (about 3/4ths the size) and looks like it had water at one time. It looks like if it did have water, that it flowed and carved out the surface just like water does here. If it did, its likely it had a thicker atmosphere and maybe it was warmer and more hospitable to life as we know it. But right now, Mars seems to be dead, not enough of an atmosphere for us to breathe and its cold too. But we have been finding places on Earth where we have found life where we never would have expected it (deep sea trenches and around sulphur guysers deep under the sea where there is no light and great heat, deep under arctic ice, etc) so maybe if there was life in more abundace on Mars, it might have survived somewhere else there now, or at the very least, give us an idea of what it was all about. The fundimental question man has always asked is; Are we alone? This may help answer that question.

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fundimental question man has always asked is; Are we alone?


you have about 10,000 rednecks who will tell you 'we are not'...

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And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
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[sr71blackbird]

Heres another thing;
The universe began between 15 and 18 Billion years ago. Earth and the solar system is 4.6 Billion years old................
So if the universe is at least 2 1/2 to 3 times older than the Earth, and if the very next planet in our own solar system has/had life, what does that tell you about the likelyhood of life elsewhere, given all that time to evolve?
They are even suggesting that one of Jupiters moons that has a frozen surface with a liquid below that ice, that even that may have life. That moon orbits the very next planet after Mars! If that had life, what are those odds now? Its likely that the universe is rippling with life!

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[high fly]

Far out, man.
Looks like one part of Mars has more rocks than another part.

I'd say that was 400 million dollars well spent.




Has any one seen my lighter?



" and they ask me why I drink"
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[Enabler]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/phoenix_mars

Phoenix has landed! Im oddly fascinated/excited by this. It probably wont be in my lifetime, but I am certain humans will go to Mars someday, and its cool that landings like Spirit & Opportunity and now Phoenix are the beginning.

[Devo37]

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[Furtherman]

http://space.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn14152/dn14152-1_600.jpg

The Phoenix lander has uncovered a patch of what may be ice on the border of a polygon-shaped section of soil in Mars's northern plains. (http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14152-mars-lander-may-have-found-ice-at-polygons-edge.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn14152)

[sr71blackbird]

Thats cool! I like though at the bottom of the article it seems that people can post comments and it looks like a mini geek war is going on about the quality of the camera that takes the pictures. Its kinda funny

[Furtherman]

My question is.... what if that's not ice.

BUT BONE!?!?


*cue thrilling music*

[Knowledged_one]

Thats cool! I like though at the bottom of the article it seems that people can post comments and it looks like a mini geek war is going on about the quality of the camera that takes the pictures. Its kinda funny

I read those also and laughed and laughed

[Furtherman]

The mission was supposed to, and expected to be, 90 days.

5 years later, the rover Opportunity still explores.

Unfortunately, the rover Spirit, may be stuck, for good.

This could be the end for our hero. NASA announced that the Spirit rover, which has been stuck in the sands of Mars since the spring, has lost operation in another wheel. If scientists can’t get it going again, that could finish off the agency’s attempt to get its plucky rover on the move once more. (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/09/future-looks-grim-for-stuck-mars-rover/)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/Spirit_rover_tracks.jpg/500px-Spirit_rover_tracks.jpg

[topless_mike]

This could be the end for our hero. NASA announced that the Spirit rover, which has been stuck in the sands of Mars since the spring, has lost operation in another wheel. If scientists can’t get it going again, that could finish off the agency’s attempt to get its plucky rover on the move once more. (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/09/future-looks-grim-for-stuck-mars-rover/)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/Spirit_rover_tracks.jpg/500px-Spirit_rover_tracks.jpg

ask the decepticon in front of it to move, please.

[boosterp]

Guess I need a new avitar, poor Spirit. :glurps:

[cougarjake13]

talk about getting your moneys worth


5 years vs 90 days



they cant have the other one go over and help out the stuck one or are they too far away ?? or dont want both to get stuck ??

[boosterp]

talk about getting your moneys worth


5 years vs 90 days



they cant have the other one go over and help out the stuck one or are they too far away ?? or dont want both to get stuck ??

The other is on the other side of the planet.

This is why we need to continue or increase NASA's budget, not cut it

[Fez4PrezN2008]

talk about getting your moneys worth


5 years vs 90 days



they cant have the other one go over and help out the stuck one or are they too far away ?? or dont want both to get stuck ??
It's drive wheels pooted out, nothing the other one could do even if it had gadget arms.

[SonOfSmeagol]

This is why we need to continue or increase NASA's budget, not cut it

At the rate we're going, Taco Bell will be set up on Mars before NASA is.

[Furtherman]

Planet of the Apes!

Former Soviet 'Monkey Nursery' Now Wants To Send An Ape To Mars (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/former-soviet-monkey-nursery-wants-send-ape-mars)

http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/468px-Ham_the_chimp.jpg

[topless_mike]

Planet of the Apes!

Former Soviet 'Monkey Nursery' Now Wants To Send An Ape To Mars (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/former-soviet-monkey-nursery-wants-send-ape-mars)

http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/468px-Ham_the_chimp.jpg

this cant end well...

[keithy_19]

this cant end well...

So let's see what we got up there...

1) Broken robot
2) Dead monkey
3) Red dust everywhere

Woo!

[Furtherman]

The mission was supposed to, and expected to be, 90 days.

5 years later, the rover Opportunity still explores.

Unfortunately, the rover Spirit, may be stuck, for good.

This could be the end for our hero. NASA announced that the Spirit rover, which has been stuck in the sands of Mars since the spring, has lost operation in another wheel. If scientists can’t get it going again, that could finish off the agency’s attempt to get its plucky rover on the move once more. (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/09/future-looks-grim-for-stuck-mars-rover/)

Poor 'lil thing. She had a good run.

Unfree Spirit: NASA's Mars Rover Appears Stuck for Good (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=spirit-rover-stationary)


The Mars rover Spirit, which this month passed its sixth anniversary of landing on the Red Planet, will apparently rove no more. NASA announced in a teleconference Tuesday that Spirit, stuck for months in a patch of soft soil known as Troy, has been designated a "stationary research platform". Spirit has not managed to free itself in a series of extraction maneuvers that began in November, and the rover's controllers say that their focus must now turn to preparing for the onset of winter in the Martian southern hemisphere—a harsh season, lasting nearly half an Earth year, that Spirit may not survive.

[Furtherman]

This morning we landed another one - and this was a big deal, with NASA's future depending on this billion dollar rover.

Curiosity Landing on Mars Greeted with Whoops and Tears of Jubilation (http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/06/curiosity-landing-on-mars-greeted-with-whoops-and-tears-of-jubilation/?fb_action_ids=10151007568819032&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582)

"It may have sounded a bit jingoist around JPL at times, but the truth is that only the United States has had the knowledge and moxie to successfully land a vehicle on Mars. We have now done it seven times, and no other nation has really come particularly close. And with the touchdown of the one-ton and highly sophisticated Curiosity, the U.S. has reached a whole new level of expertise."

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/files/2012/08/msl5_PIA15973-br2.jpeg

[Furtherman]

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[OGC]

here is a picture of the Curiosity and its parachute on the way to the surface. it was taken by another NASA mars spacecraft (MSO) which is in orbit around mars. this stuff is just too cool.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/553548_396558407060807_1654971091_n.jpg

[Furtherman]

More pics coming through...

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/528564_10151007536759032_2102133771_n.jpg

[cougarjake13]

I knew it

[Furtherman]

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Fast forward to 3:40 and you can see the final moments before they found out if it was successful... then it's like the end of Armaggedon. Awesome.

[PapaBear]

I don't know what's worse. That you would compare it an awful movie like that, when there's so many better ones with the same scene, or the fact that I'm actually watching Armageddon as I read your post.

[keithy_19]

More pics coming through...

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/528564_10151007536759032_2102133771_n.jpg

:lol:

[hanso]

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Where is Jerry?