It’s due to land at 3:43 pm on the 18th Eastern US time.
I make that 6:43 am Brisbane time on the 19th, Friday.
You can watch it live on NASA TV.
Good luck and God speed.
How can I watch the NASA landing?
Not only will you be able to watch it, you’ll be able to listen to the sounds of it landing too. For the first time, NASA has not only got cameras on the rover, it’s also kitted out with microphones.
Starting about 6:15am (AEDT) tomorrow, NASA will be broadcasting on social media platforms including YouTube(external link), Facebook(external link) and Twitter(external link), as well as providing a live unedited stream from mission control(external link) and a 360-degree feed(external link).
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Remember that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc don’t have any special coverage.
They just steal NASA coverage and pretend it’s theirs. Ignore these running dog imposters and watch it live from the source at NASA TV.
Peak Warming Man said:
How can I watch the NASA landing?Not only will you be able to watch it, you’ll be able to listen to the sounds of it landing too. For the first time, NASA has not only got cameras on the rover, it’s also kitted out with microphones.
Starting about 6:15am (AEDT) tomorrow, NASA will be broadcasting on social media platforms including YouTube(external link), Facebook(external link) and Twitter(external link), as well as providing a live unedited stream from mission control(external link) and a 360-degree feed(external link).
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Hearing it will be good, just hope it doesn’t end in a loud bang.
In the meantime, this is worth a peep. Brief animation of the chopper in action.
NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Animations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnH4yD0s8QM&t=19s
>They just steal NASA coverage and pretend it’s theirs. Ignore these running dog imposters and watch it live from the source at NASA TV.
No, NASA TV itself streams the broadcast through its channels on those platforms as well as its website, to maximise its reach.
Just a reminder for eastern states Daylight Savings people that this landing will be at around 7:55am tomorrow morning.
Bubblecar said:
Just a reminder for eastern states Daylight Savings people that this landing will be at around 7:55am tomorrow morning.
Is that 6:55am for us AEST types?
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Just a reminder for eastern states Daylight Savings people that this landing will be at around 7:55am tomorrow morning.
Is that 6:55am for us AEST types?
Aye lad.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Just a reminder for eastern states Daylight Savings people that this landing will be at around 7:55am tomorrow morning.
Is that 6:55am for us AEST types?
Aye lad.
Ta
I shan’t be watching live, then.
Lost post to here
Lost sound
Then lost internet connection
Trying again
Just 20 questions time on NASA TV. That’s no use.
Perseverance is said to be the most advanced rover ever.
Loaded with cameras and microphones.
Drill
Sample collection (plan to store for later return to Earth)
Helicopter
Playing in the sand pit – again
Science experiment to convert mars CO2 into O2
mollwollfumble said:
Just 20 questions time on NASA TV. That’s no use.Perseverance is said to be the most advanced rover ever.
Loaded with cameras and microphones.
Drill
Sample collection (plan to store for later return to Earth)
Helicopter
Playing in the sand pit – again
Science experiment to convert Mars CO2 into O2
30 sample tubes.
Superficially similar to Curiosity, eg. same landing method.
Helicopter launch before rover starts roving, because difficult for rover to move around with helicopter attached.
Landing alluvial fan
mollwollfumble said:
mollwollfumble said:
Just 20 questions time on NASA TV. That’s no use.Perseverance is said to be the most advanced rover ever.
Loaded with cameras and microphones.
Drill
Sample collection (plan to store for later return to Earth)
Helicopter
Playing in the sand pit – again
Science experiment to convert Mars CO2 into O2
30 sample tubes.
Superficially similar to Curiosity, eg. same landing method.
Helicopter launch before rover starts roving, because difficult for rover to move around with helicopter attached.
Landing alluvial fan
Nickname “Percy”
Helicopter sits underneath the rover.
Size, 3 * 2.7 * 2.2 metres
Weight, 1.025 tonnes
Wheels 0.52 m diameter, made from aluminium with legs and spokes of titanium
Power from plutonium radioisotope.RTG
Two lithium ion rechargeable batteries, 110 watts
Communications, UHF communications, and X band high gain and X band low gain antennas
Being aluminium, the wheels aren’t going to be particularly durable, but are designed to be more durable than those of Curiosity.
Speed – a lot slower than walking pace.
Onboard computer.
23 cameras.
Relative sizes of landing ellipses.
Some science instruments
Live altitude and time to landing on https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/entry-descent-landing/
1,600 miles to go
Altitude 600 miles
Speed 11,000 mph
Media is where the good stuff is, Public is talking heads.
I don’t remember NASA staff wearing uniforms like this before.
12 minutes until entry.
Venting coolant in preparation for cruise stage separation in 3 minutes.
PR dude reckons that millions of things can go wrong but they will learn from mistakes and there is a dude with a toy dog on his desk with a little hat. These dudes are not as confident as the Curiosity crew.
Separation complete.
Five minutes from entry interface. Still receiving heartbeat tones.
Peak Warming Man said:
Media is where the good stuff is, Public is talking heads.
Public is best now.
You’d think they’d use cordless mice, but no.
Bubblecar said:
You’d think they’d use cordless mice, but no.
Unreliable.
Entry interface.
That bald bloke used to work in our BWS.
16km from the surface.
Chute deployed.
9km above surface, slowing dramatically.
So far so good.
Landing engines priming.
Backshell separated.
300 metres.
Sky crane started.
SAFELY LANDED!
Bloody amazing.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bloody amazing.
A million little things went right.
I like the word telemetry.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bloody amazing.
A million little things went right.
Remember when they lost Beagle?
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bloody amazing.
A million little things went right.
All credit to the Yanks, they can do fabulous things when they want to.
First image.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bloody amazing.
A million little things went right.
All credit to the Yanks, they can do fabulous things when they want to.
They’ll probably get the electricity back on in Texas today.
It’s just a rough low-res image to confirm that they landed up the right way etc.
Divine Angel said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bloody amazing.
A million little things went right.
Remember when they lost Beagle?
As someone from NASA once said ‘we learn to build spacecraft that work by building spacecraft that don’t work’.
Bubblecar said:
It’s just a rough low-res image to confirm that they landed up the right way etc.
They are trying to find out where it is and to confirm that it is Mars.
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:A million little things went right.
All credit to the Yanks, they can do fabulous things when they want to.
They’ll probably get the electricity back on in Texas today.
They’d never have lost electricity in Texas if NASA ran their power system, instead of a few ‘businessmen’.
Divine Angel said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bloody amazing.
A million little things went right.
Remember when they lost Beagle?
That was an el cheapo British job.
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
Bubblecar said:A million little things went right.
Remember when they lost Beagle?
That was an el cheapo British job.
Brave attempt, nonetheless.
Steve is a wide eyed chap.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:All credit to the Yanks, they can do fabulous things when they want to.
They’ll probably get the electricity back on in Texas today.
They’d never have lost electricity in Texas if NASA ran their power system, instead of a few ‘businessmen’.
It is comforting to know that intelligence and problem solving does still exist in the USA.
A remake of “7 minutes of terror”:
https://www.space.com/perseverance-mars-2020-rover-landing-video
But the original is still the best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s
Bubblecar said:
SAFELY LANDED!
Thank you.
Bubblecar said:
First image.
They won’t have taken the lens cap off yet.
This looks like Mars, except for the gum leaf at lower right in the second image.
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:
First image.
They won’t have taken the lens cap off yet.
This looks like Mars, except for the gum leaf at lower right in the second image.
To feed the MARSupials
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:
First image.
They won’t have taken the lens cap off yet.
This looks like Mars, except for the gum leaf at lower right in the second image.
To feed the MARSupials
LOL :-)
I see they landed it safely.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-19/nasa-rover-perseverance-lands-on-mars/13170902
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:
First image.
They won’t have taken the lens cap off yet.
This looks like Mars, except for the gum leaf at lower right in the second image.
To feed the MARSupials
Heh!
:)
Post-touchdown briefing on now.
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public
Landing location. Off the deposition fan (top left of image) and only 1.7 km from the centre of the landing ellipse.
Landing slope 1.5 degrees.
Battery at 95%.
RTG producing 105 Watts.
After transitioning to on-surface software, will drive to helicopter flight location.
FWIW, I just read this on Facepalm.
“i just heard in a nasa interview a pbs reporter asked about the 25 camera and one of the guys responded hopefully they have the whole decent in hi def video and audio one pointing to the parachute and other cameras pointing down and will spend the weekend gathering the videos and will release them on Monday and is hoping for something spectacular”
I’m very much looking forwards to that.
WOW! It just sent back this hi-res pic of Jupiter.
Seen it Woodie. :-)
Spiny Norman said:
FWIW, I just read this on Facepalm.“i just heard in a nasa interview a pbs reporter asked about the 25 camera and one of the guys responded hopefully they have the whole decent in hi def video and audio one pointing to the parachute and other cameras pointing down and will spend the weekend gathering the videos and will release them on Monday and is hoping for something spectacular”
I’m very much looking forwards to that.
Ta. Ditto looking forwards to it. I think this is the first time a Mars landing has been videoed.
A video camera input was used in determining the safest local landing site, it adjusted the parachute before parachute release.
Moon landings were videoed.
I noticed this on twitter.
“NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover
Hobbies: Photography, collecting rocks, off-roading.”
The head of Australia’s Standing Committee on Space Exploration, the Right Honourable Barnaby Joyce ( MP PMT with Bar), is due to hold a press conference on the implications the successful landing on Mars this morning means for Australia going forward.
I hope he doesn’t get too technical so that the average punter can grasp the importance of these implications.
Peak Warming Man said:
The head of Australia’s Standing Committee on Space Exploration, the Right Honourable Barnaby Joyce ( MP PMT with Bar), is due to hold a press conference on the implications the successful landing on Mars this morning means for Australia going forward.
I hope he doesn’t get too technical so that the average punter can grasp the importance of these implications.
I think we’ll all need considerable bit of perseverance to watch that, Mr Man.
Peak Warming Man said:
The head of Australia’s Standing Committee on Space Exploration, the Right Honourable Barnaby Joyce ( MP PMT with Bar), is due to hold a press conference on the implications the successful landing on Mars this morning means for Australia going forward.
I hope he doesn’t get too technical so that the average punter can grasp the importance of these implications.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The head of Australia’s Standing Committee on Space Exploration, the Right Honourable Barnaby Joyce ( MP PMT with Bar), is due to hold a press conference on the implications the successful landing on Mars this morning means for Australia going forward.
I hope he doesn’t get too technical so that the average punter can grasp the importance of these implications.
I think we’ll all need considerable bit of perseverance to watch that, Mr Man.
Groan.
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The head of Australia’s Standing Committee on Space Exploration, the Right Honourable Barnaby Joyce ( MP PMT with Bar), is due to hold a press conference on the implications the successful landing on Mars this morning means for Australia going forward.
I hope he doesn’t get too technical so that the average punter can grasp the importance of these implications.
Barnaby? Technical? You’ll be safe.
Space exploration possibilites are almost infinite inside his cranial cavity.
It’s having a little sleep, it’s been a big day.
No further news since the landing?
mollwollfumble said:
No further news since the landing?
I’ll have a look.
When you type perseverance into Google and press enter, there are fireworks on the search page.
Bubblecar said:
mollwollfumble said:
No further news since the landing?
I’ll have a look.
When you type perseverance into Google and press enter, there are fireworks on the search page.
No new updates on the NASA site.
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/status/
Can hardly believe it’s been 9 years since the Curiosity landing
wait until you hear how long ago that Columbia incident was
More images have been released, including a view of the landing.
From about 2 metres above the surface:
High-Resolution Still Image of Perseverance’s Landing: This is a high-resolution still image, part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
This high-resolution image shows one of the six wheels aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, which landed on Feb. 18, 2021. The image was taken by one of Perseverance’s color Hazard Cameras (Hazcams).
HiRISE Captured Perseverance During Descent to Mars
The descent stage holding NASA’s Perseverance rover can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere, its parachute trailing behind, in this image taken on Feb. 18, 2021, by the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The ancient river delta, which is the target of the Perseverance mission, can be seen entering Jezero Crater from the left.
HiRISE was approximately 435 miles (700 kilometers) from Perseverance and traveling at about 6750 mile per hour (3 kilometers per second) at the time the image was taken. The extreme distance and high speeds of the two spacecraft were challenging conditions that required precise timing and for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to both pitch upward and roll hard to the left so that Perseverance was viewable by HiRISE at just the right moment.
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25610/hirise-captured-perseverance-during-descent-to-mars/
I think they have some good videos coming of the landing taken from various pieces of kit of the actual landing.
Dunno how long that will take to download, I’d imagine their bit rate wont be that high.
Peak Warming Man said:
I think they have some good videos coming of the landing taken from various pieces of kit of the actual landing.
Dunno how long that will take to download, I’d imagine their bit rate wont be that high.
Some of it should be high res. That snap I posted of the rover suspended from the sky crane is a still from one of the landing videos.
Peak Warming Man said:
I think they have some good videos coming of the landing taken from various pieces of kit of the actual landing.
Dunno how long that will take to download, I’d imagine their bit rate wont be that high.
It will be coming in for a while yes.
More photos.
https://www.9news.com.au/technology/mars-landing-team-awestruck-by-photo-of-descending-rover/e2e1c5d8-55cf-4765-a497-e756bf4649d8
The next photo is so iconic I have to wonder whether it’s a simulation. I think it’s real.
mollwollfumble said:
More photos.https://www.9news.com.au/technology/mars-landing-team-awestruck-by-photo-of-descending-rover/e2e1c5d8-55cf-4765-a497-e756bf4649d8
The next photo is so iconic I have to wonder whether it’s a simulation. I think it’s real.
It is real, taken from about 2 metres above the surface a second or two before touchdown. See my posts above.
Bubblecar said:
mollwollfumble said:
More photos.https://www.9news.com.au/technology/mars-landing-team-awestruck-by-photo-of-descending-rover/e2e1c5d8-55cf-4765-a497-e756bf4649d8
The next photo is so iconic I have to wonder whether it’s a simulation. I think it’s real.
It is real, taken from about 2 metres above the surface a second or two before touchdown. See my posts above.
Oh, you beat me to it and I didn’t even notice.
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:
mollwollfumble said:
More photos.https://www.9news.com.au/technology/mars-landing-team-awestruck-by-photo-of-descending-rover/e2e1c5d8-55cf-4765-a497-e756bf4649d8
The next photo is so iconic I have to wonder whether it’s a simulation. I think it’s real.
It is real, taken from about 2 metres above the surface a second or two before touchdown. See my posts above.
Oh, you beat me to it and I didn’t even notice.
I neglected the top one you posted, so never mind :)
There’s been a problem.
Dark Orange said:
:)
https://hackaday.com/2021/02/20/a-look-at-the-risky-tech-in-nasas-martian-helicopter/
explains that, as a technology demonstrator, the team was allowed to take far more risks in developing Ingenuity than they would have been able to otherwise. Rather than sticking with legacy hardware and software, they were free to explore newer and less proven technology.That included off-the-shelf consumer components, such as a laser altimeter purchased from SparkFun. It also means that the computational power packed into Ingenuity far exceeds that of Perseverance itself, though how well the helicopter’s smartphone-class Snapdragon 801 processor will handle the harsh Martian environment is yet to be seen.
Front left Hazcam third raw image. Oops, I think I detect a slight problem here. No worries.
No other news from Perseverance, must be Sunday.
They’re not giving much away but I did read something today that the helicopter has logged in.
Not sure which thread this fits best in, but let’s try here:
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
The lander landing
Nice
Always nice when stuff works as designed. Great pictures.
Have they tried the helicopter yet?
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
The lander landing
Awesome.
They’ve also knocked up a sound bite taken by a cheap Crazy Clark microphone.
They are worried that the microphone might not last long in temperatures of -80 degrees (feels like – 300)
Not just a pretty pattern
It says DARE MIGHTY THINGS 34°12′6.1″ N 118°10′18″ W
The patterns on NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover parachute, looking like a morse or binary message, but decoding took a while.
Most of Enthusiastis tried following a inner, middle, upper and outer circle Patten 0⚪1🔴, measuring goes up to string of 80 bits in 4 groups
Note: Most are padding 0&1 in irregular Patten for conversions.
For Inner circle ↩️( 00000001000000000001000001001000000001010001111111111111111111111111111111111111)
Middle circle
↩️(000001010000000110010001111111111111110000001101000000100100000001110000001000)
Upper middle circle
↩️(00011111111111111111000001010000000010000000001001000000111000000001110000010011)
Outer circle
↩️(000010001000000010110000001110000111011000000010100000011111)
For decoding, split the 80 bits into 10 bits(digit) binary to convert into Decimal (10 bit) and Hexa Decimal (16bit). Have a nice day!
Image credit: NASA
JudgeMental said:
Not just a pretty pattern
It says DARE MIGHTY THINGS 34°12′6.1″ N 118°10′18″ W
The patterns on NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover parachute, looking like a morse or binary message, but decoding took a while.
Most of Enthusiastis tried following a inner, middle, upper and outer circle Patten 0⚪1🔴, measuring goes up to string of 80 bits in 4 groups
Note: Most are padding 0&1 in irregular Patten for conversions.
For Inner circle ↩️( 00000001000000000001000001001000000001010001111111111111111111111111111111111111)
Middle circle
↩️(000001010000000110010001111111111111110000001101000000100100000001110000001000)
Upper middle circle
↩️(00011111111111111111000001010000000010000000001001000000111000000001110000010011)
Outer circle
↩️(000010001000000010110000001110000111011000000010100000011111)
For decoding, split the 80 bits into 10 bits(digit) binary to convert into Decimal (10 bit) and Hexa Decimal (16bit). Have a nice day!Image credit: NASA
Ah, ta.
Bubblecar said:
JudgeMental said:
Not just a pretty pattern
It says DARE MIGHTY THINGS 34°12′6.1″ N 118°10′18″ W
The patterns on NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover parachute, looking like a morse or binary message, but decoding took a while.
Most of Enthusiastis tried following a inner, middle, upper and outer circle Patten 0⚪1🔴, measuring goes up to string of 80 bits in 4 groups
Note: Most are padding 0&1 in irregular Patten for conversions.
For Inner circle ↩️( 00000001000000000001000001001000000001010001111111111111111111111111111111111111)
Middle circle
↩️(000001010000000110010001111111111111110000001101000000100100000001110000001000)
Upper middle circle
↩️(00011111111111111111000001010000000010000000001001000000111000000001110000010011)
Outer circle
↩️(000010001000000010110000001110000111011000000010100000011111)
For decoding, split the 80 bits into 10 bits(digit) binary to convert into Decimal (10 bit) and Hexa Decimal (16bit). Have a nice day!Image credit: NASA
Ah, ta.
I thought it was going to be:
One small step for machine
One great leap for machine kind.
JudgeMental said:
Not just a pretty pattern
It says DARE MIGHTY THINGS 34°12′6.1″ N 118°10′18″ W
The patterns on NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover parachute, looking like a morse or binary message, but decoding took a while.
Most of Enthusiastis tried following a inner, middle, upper and outer circle Patten 0⚪1🔴, measuring goes up to string of 80 bits in 4 groups
Note: Most are padding 0&1 in irregular Patten for conversions.
For Inner circle ↩️( 00000001000000000001000001001000000001010001111111111111111111111111111111111111)
Middle circle
↩️(000001010000000110010001111111111111110000001101000000100100000001110000001000)
Upper middle circle
↩️(00011111111111111111000001010000000010000000001001000000111000000001110000010011)
Outer circle
↩️(000010001000000010110000001110000111011000000010100000011111)
For decoding, split the 80 bits into 10 bits(digit) binary to convert into Decimal (10 bit) and Hexa Decimal (16bit). Have a nice day!Image credit: NASA
No.
Perseverance delivers new Mars surface pics, including rocks in wheel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlKNGHAP6IM
Bubblecar said:
Perseverance delivers new Mars surface pics, including rocks in wheel!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlKNGHAP6IM
Excellent
Finally a proper panoramic view of the landing site, from the rover:
Panorama of Mars from Perseverance Rover
This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irbigpycU8w
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
The lander landing
Nice
Always nice when stuff works as designed. Great pictures.
Have they tried the helicopter yet?
They have to unship the main mastcam.
Then rove to the pre-specified helicopter launch site.
Then launch.
It’ll take some time.
The rover has 19 cameras
dv said:
The rover has 19 cameras
Which is good. I hope they find some spectacular fossils, or at least something special.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
The rover has 19 cameras
Which is good. I hope they find some spectacular fossils, or at least something special.
Imagine finding ammonites, or trilobites.
I doubt something so spectacular could eventuate…
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
The rover has 19 cameras
Which is good. I hope they find some spectacular fossils, or at least something special.
Imagine finding ammonites, or trilobites.
I doubt something so spectacular could eventuate…
If it turns out there’s no sign of fossil life, that in itself will be quite profound.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:Which is good. I hope they find some spectacular fossils, or at least something special.
Imagine finding ammonites, or trilobites.
I doubt something so spectacular could eventuate…
If it turns out there’s no sign of fossil life, that in itself will be quite profound.
Is this thing built to dig?
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Imagine finding ammonites, or trilobites.
I doubt something so spectacular could eventuate…
If it turns out there’s no sign of fossil life, that in itself will be quite profound.
Is this thing built to dig?
Engineer at NASA slaps forehead “I knew we forgot something!”
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Imagine finding ammonites, or trilobites.
I doubt something so spectacular could eventuate…
If it turns out there’s no sign of fossil life, that in itself will be quite profound.
Is this thing built to dig?
It can drill samples and will be preparing a big batch for return to Earth.
Nearly 11 Million Names of Earthlings are on Mars Perseverance
NASA’s “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign invited people around the globe to submit their names to ride along on the rover. And people did – with a grand total of 10,932,295 names submitted. Those names now sit on the surface of Mars, written on three fingernail-sized chips on board the Perseverance rover.
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8872/nearly-11-million-names-of-earthlings-are-on-mars-perseverance/
Bubblecar said:
Nearly 11 Million Names of Earthlings are on Mars PerseveranceNASA’s “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign invited people around the globe to submit their names to ride along on the rover. And people did – with a grand total of 10,932,295 names submitted. Those names now sit on the surface of Mars, written on three fingernail-sized chips on board the Perseverance rover.
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8872/nearly-11-million-names-of-earthlings-are-on-mars-perseverance/
Paddoboy will be on there a thousand times.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Nearly 11 Million Names of Earthlings are on Mars PerseveranceNASA’s “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign invited people around the globe to submit their names to ride along on the rover. And people did – with a grand total of 10,932,295 names submitted. Those names now sit on the surface of Mars, written on three fingernail-sized chips on board the Perseverance rover.
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8872/nearly-11-million-names-of-earthlings-are-on-mars-perseverance/
Paddoboy will be on there a thousand times.
As a child of the Apollo era, I was expecting to be enjoying occasional holidays on Mars by now.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Nearly 11 Million Names of Earthlings are on Mars PerseveranceNASA’s “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign invited people around the globe to submit their names to ride along on the rover. And people did – with a grand total of 10,932,295 names submitted. Those names now sit on the surface of Mars, written on three fingernail-sized chips on board the Perseverance rover.
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8872/nearly-11-million-names-of-earthlings-are-on-mars-perseverance/
Paddoboy will be on there a thousand times.
As a child of the Apollo era, I was expecting to be enjoying occasional holidays on Mars by now.
Exactly, you are a child of the universe and you have a right to be there.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:Paddoboy will be on there a thousand times.
As a child of the Apollo era, I was expecting to be enjoying occasional holidays on Mars by now.
Exactly, you are a child of the universe and you have a right to be there.
Who knows, in thirty years time I might be going for trundles around the base of Olympus Mons while being celebrated as “the oldest man on Mars”.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:As a child of the Apollo era, I was expecting to be enjoying occasional holidays on Mars by now.
Exactly, you are a child of the universe and you have a right to be there.
Who knows, in thirty years time I might be going for trundles around the base of Olympus Mons while being celebrated as “the oldest man on Mars”.
The Venus Mons would be more exciting.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:Exactly, you are a child of the universe and you have a right to be there.
Who knows, in thirty years time I might be going for trundles around the base of Olympus Mons while being celebrated as “the oldest man on Mars”.
The Venus Mons would be more exciting.
peers over glasses
Manned mission to Mars?
Why f***ing bother?
captain_spalding said:
Manned mission to Mars?
Why f***ing bother?
Have you thought of writing slogans for government?
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
Manned mission to Mars?
Why f***ing bother?
Have you thought of writing slogans for government?
Like ‘where the bloody hell are you?’.
This could be my path to the top…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-26/nasa-releases-panoramic-photos-from-mars-perseverance-rover/13197190
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-26/nasa-releases-panoramic-photos-from-mars-perseverance-rover/13197190
Very good, they seem to know what they are doing.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-26/nasa-releases-panoramic-photos-from-mars-perseverance-rover/13197190
Very good, they seem to know what they are doing.
LOL
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-26/nasa-releases-panoramic-photos-from-mars-perseverance-rover/13197190
Very good, they seem to know what they are doing.
Yes, carry on, chaps.
Arts said:
well look here it’s not like any banks usually have a cool $2 700 000 000 just sitting around ready to be spent on something that might be useful
wait
Perseverance moves arm and looks at rocks in latest pics from Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzQAW14YQI
JudgeMental said:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/5/mars-rover-travels-6-5-metres-in-flawless-first-drive
So far, Perseverance and its hardware, including its main robot arm, appear to be operating flawlessly. The team has yet to conduct post-landing tests of the rover’s sophisticated system to drill and collect rock samples for return to Earth via future Mars missions. JPL engineers still have additional equipment checks to run on the rover’s many instruments before they will be ready to send the robot on a more ambitious journey.
Look, wheel tracks. (I’m not sure that “severance” is what they had in mind).
In other Mars news: “Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1 successfully enters Mars orbit. Tianwen-1 entered the orbit after almost a seven-month journey, hoping to explore the planet over 90 days. This handout photograph released on February 5, 2021 by the China National Space Administration shows an image of Mars captured by China’s Mars probe Tianwen-1. China’s space agency releases video footage two days after its Mars probe successfully entered the red planet’s orbit.”
“Tianwen-1 launched around the same time as a rival US mission and is expected to touch down on the surface of the planet in May. Its success comes the same week as the United Arab Emirates’s Hope probe also successfully entered Mars’s orbit – making history as the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. Chinese scientists hope to land a 240-kilogramme (529-pound) rover in May in Utopia, an enormous impact basin on Mars. Its orbiter will last for a Martian year.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXb_cacnmsI
Image from Tianwen-1.
