[guarnere]

why hasnt anyone posted about this yet?

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

[JBird]

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.

[elitecloud]

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

[guarnere]

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

[Eight Ace]

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

[Madmartagen]

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.

[Poseidon]

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!

[imported_Fluffy_Bunny]

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:

[Merlin122]

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

[General Cobra]

Originally Posted by m1ck97

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

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.

[Vance]

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:

[Maplegyver]

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

[ShagNasty]

[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.
[/quote:8530c]


lmao stupid rocket scientists.

[Trudel]

Originally Posted by m1ck97

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!

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.