MARS LANDING
 

why hasnt anyone posted about this yet?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107316,00.html

rockin' rock:

its too bad we lost those previous 2 spacecraft that were to test the polar ice caps for water, and test for microbial samples....

at least we have hope for this new rover! i hope it finds some cool rock formations , and perhaps give us a glimpse at Olympus Mons! the biggest volcano in the solar system.

well.....not in the solar system..the biggest volcano that we know of..

lol first shots that they got in were...pretty blah...just a lotta rocks n sand...cant wait to see what they find in weeks ahead

...have they shown where Mars Bars are from...or is that just some advertising thing..?

Thats pretty exciting for me. Its been a while since we've done some serious space exploration. Hopefully we can build a transport that can take crew to the planet and look around.

DAMN.. why does nasa's ships seem to land?
our attempt of beugle2 got lost somewhere on christmas day!

and one more thing whats the point in launching muti million/billion pound projects on launching a space craft to search for life.

what are they gonna do when they find something? -try communicating like in in the film close encounters... just what is the point... they could find something better to spend there money on!

Well, Britain can boast of making a crater on mars when our little beagle went down in a blaze of glory... perhaps you chaps could explore that rolleyes:

... i hope they can find some of my ex-girlfriends up there

They wont be making first contact until the 7th anyway.

Besides I have much more faith in the french exploration than NASA's stupid rocket scientists. Go figure. I think they waste entirely too much money on blunders that could have been avoided.

What's so big about this landing? Haven't we done it before?

well looks like we finally picked a measuring system (english or metric) and stuck with it for the whole project.
We already lost two craft because one team worked in metric and the other in english rolleyes:

[img]http://www.foxnews.com/images/112197/4_23_010404_nasa_cheers2.jpg/[/img]
YAY

[quote:8530c]Besides I have much more faith in the french exploration than NASA's stupid rocket scientists. Go figure. I think they waste entirely too much money on blunders that could have been avoided.
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lmao stupid rocket scientists.

Only 1 out of every 3 craft land safely on Mars. Nasa has lost probes and satellites that were bound for Mars.

The Japanese had one that was supposed to get to Mars sometime in early December, but they found that they were having trouble communicating with some parts of the probe so they steered it away from the planet, otherwise it would have just crashed into the surface. Canada and a number of other countries had technology and exirients on board, so it doesn't just effect one country, it effects a lot of countries when something goes wrong.

The ESU probe, well its jus balancing out the equation. In order for NASA to land, 2 others have to fail.

The existence of life past life on another planet is worth searching for because it would be the biggest scientific discovery ever. If 2 planets (Earth and Mars) at one time held life, thats two planets in the same solar system. That is amazing. Think of how many solar systems there are. You can't becasue the number is so high. If we can have 2 planets that harbour life at one point, why can other systems have just one?

From reseraching this we can learn a lot about where we came from and where were going. Earth may end up looking like mars someday.

next up (landing on mars with humans)

Ok, 1st of all we need to stop knocking the space program no matter who landed where and who got lost. As for the landing, i'm not 100% but i believe it's the 1st time anything has landed on Mars. What i'd like to know is how long did it take the space craft to get there. When did they send out the crafts?

Don't you reeber the first mars rover that landed in 98 or 99?

Edit: It was Mars "Pathfinder" in 1997.

Mars rover "Spirit" was launched June 10, 2003 and was scheduled to land on Jan 3, 2004, which it did. There is another rover exactly the same as Spirit called "Opportunity" that was launched about a month later and will arrive on Mars on Jan 24, 2004.

Landing humans on mars will take at least 30 years.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

we waste way too much money in exploring space and what have we got in return for it???

Moonlanding ? Russia beaten in the race ? Space is our future and exploration is part of human nature. Denying it would to be to deny ourselves. It is something that gives great things back. It should not be taken so lightly.

Enormous amounts of money was spent exploring the Earth. Think back 6 or 700 years. North America wasn't even discovered by Europeans yet. Would you have told them, "whats the point?" I doubt it. It is in our nature to explore. Its pretty selfish to sit on our rock and not explore the origins of life, or try to discover new life. Aren't you curious? It's our curiosity of things that has brought us to this point. We learn answers by asking questions.

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Mankind, probably the most mysterious species on our planet. A mystery of open questions. Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? How do we know what we believe to know? Why do we believe anything at all? Innumerable questions looking for an answer, an answer which will raise the next question and the following answer will raise a following question and so on and so forth. But in the end, isn't it always the same question and always the same answer?[/quote:a73bc]

Tang and velcro...

No, I'm not curious. It's only produced dead astronauts and billions of wasted dollars.

if we didnt explore you wouldent have cell phones, satalite tvs,gps, ect...

I agree. It's a waste of money no matter how you look at it. A MASSIVE WASTE. Billons into trillions and money that could have helped boost the economy or help the people of their respective countries. I for one would have rather seen that money put to good use like rebuilding the schools in inner cities or helping get the homeless off the streets into productive lives.

Or we could just pile all the money in the middle of the street and set it on fire. Atleast it would be more productive.

Mankind has always had an urge to see what's out there, since the begining of time. evidence of this is the fact the human's can be found about any place on the globe. The urge to travel in space comes from the same place. (well, that, and to prove to the russians, and now the chinese that we're better then them)

I think they said on the news that it took 7 months for the satellite to reach mars.

That is probably the biggest drawback in terms of sending a human crew to Mars, who is going to take a 7 month one way trip to another location? 14 months away in space, that prolly takes alot of food, fuel, and physical toll on NASA and its crew. I cant wait to hear more about what the probe found.

Thats why the shuttles are innefficient as fuck. You might as well shoot a piece of shit into space and ride it to mars.

A rocket using a nuclear reactor for propulsion will be launched in 2009 or so for an unmanned mission to Pluto. This is a sign as an evolution in space travel. Hopefully soon, other means of efficient transportation in space will be made avaliable.

And as I said before, "Spirit" left earth on June 10, 2003. So just less than 7 months. "Opportunity" launched 3 weeks later and will reach Mars on the 24th of this month.

[quote="[22nd Elite] Cloud":69fbf]well.....not in the solar system..the biggest volcano that we know of..[/quote:69fbf]

hmm. yep, it is the biggest volcano in the solar system buddy. we have surveyed all the planets, and that is the biggest one. eek:

I believe this is the 5th sucessfully landed probe on mars, along with 20 something failed landing attempts, most recently Japan and the brits.

Heard they found something! ... a mouse on mars rock:

[img]http://www.fishtank.org.uk/humour/pictures/General/Mouse%20Found%20On%20Mars.jpg[/img]

heh heh...yup. A shitty mouse. biggrin: