NASA Perseverance Rover
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Checked it live on Nasa's YouTube channel. I don't think people quite understand how important this mission actually was. Epic...and watching the kids ask questions to the scientists and all the smiles on all their faces was something we need right now.
Watched some extra interviews. Very cool!
Watched some extra interviews. Very cool!
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Keep in mind they're also testing/tested out new concepts and tech, like a drone copter on Mars....precision landing in a dry river bed, etc. They'll be taking samples and testing them, and taking other samples and storing them for the next mission, which is to retrieve them.
This is epic. If you don't think so then that's up to you, but why whine about it like a petulant child about it here when the thread was created to celebrate another cool achievement? Don't like it? MOVE THE HECK ON! It's not hard.
Like @Runwildboys said "when you can do half of what they did, then you can say it isn't epic"
This is epic. If you don't think so then that's up to you, but why whine about it like a petulant child about it here when the thread was created to celebrate another cool achievement? Don't like it? MOVE THE HECK ON! It's not hard.
Like @Runwildboys said "when you can do half of what they did, then you can say it isn't epic"
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LOL @ some people.
It's epic to me. It's amazing technology to put any kind of robotic on the surface of another planet, especially with how much technology we rely on to do so. Just to land it is a great feat. They have the "7 minutes of terror" landing period as the rover is landing "blindly" to humanity because it takes anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to receive signals from the rover back to Earth. Not only do we have another rover on Mars but we now have a drone there. It will be the first flight ever attempted on another planet. To look up at the night sky, spot Mars, and think that we have robotics from Earth on it is epic to me! We are the aliens now.
It's funny you tell Runwildboys that he "cleary have not researched well" yet it's obvious that you have not. One of the very missions of this rover is to collect rock/samples to send back to Earth. The mission is called MSR (Mars Sample Return) and has various missions planned spanning over the next 10 years to bring back samples to Earth. They landed at a specific location thought to have contained a massive lake at one point. A great spot to hopefully find evidence of any microbial life. A piece of another planet has never been brought back to Earth by humanity, so yeah, this is a pretty epic mission if you ask me.
It's epic to me. It's amazing technology to put any kind of robotic on the surface of another planet, especially with how much technology we rely on to do so. Just to land it is a great feat. They have the "7 minutes of terror" landing period as the rover is landing "blindly" to humanity because it takes anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to receive signals from the rover back to Earth. Not only do we have another rover on Mars but we now have a drone there. It will be the first flight ever attempted on another planet. To look up at the night sky, spot Mars, and think that we have robotics from Earth on it is epic to me! We are the aliens now.
It's funny you tell Runwildboys that he "cleary have not researched well" yet it's obvious that you have not. One of the very missions of this rover is to collect rock/samples to send back to Earth. The mission is called MSR (Mars Sample Return) and has various missions planned spanning over the next 10 years to bring back samples to Earth. They landed at a specific location thought to have contained a massive lake at one point. A great spot to hopefully find evidence of any microbial life. A piece of another planet has never been brought back to Earth by humanity, so yeah, this is a pretty epic mission if you ask me.
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Off-topic: For me, the hardest problem with being a moderator is not deleting all the posts I really want to automatically delete all the time.
On-topic: Congrats NASA.
On-topic: Congrats NASA.
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NASA Perseverance Rover
NASA Perseverance Rover
NASA Perseverance Rover
Perhaps repeating what the thread is about will steer postings back to it before I morph into bald-head Mr. Clean and tidy up the entire derailment.
NASA Perseverance Rover
NASA Perseverance Rover
Perhaps repeating what the thread is about will steer postings back to it before I morph into bald-head Mr. Clean and tidy up the entire derailment.
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sorry, I helped take it off, I will help bring it back
Do you think the Rover is on mars 225 million miles away, and being controlled like a remote control car, or on devon island Vancouver? Search mars rover devon island vancouver
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I haven't watched the rover videos but I am curious about how it is controlled. If it approaches a rock or something it has to navigate, how long does it take the signal from the control on earth to go 225millions miles? Is it instant? Do they tell the tires to move right, then there is a delay, then tell it to go, and a delay, then the video feed comes back of them doing it, and they make adjustments
How does that work
How does that work
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You are not helping.
The week long icy weather has forced me into coming in to work today. Dang it. I will deal with this thread later.
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You are not helping.
do you not think about that stuff?
If there is not an instant signal transfer from the control to the rover, how can it do anything? How did they know the angle, speed, and all of that to get it into the atmosphere of mars?
Did they get instant readings and make instant adjustments so it did not burn up in the atmosphere of mars? It seems to be a big deal on stuff returning to earths atmosphere. Or am I just remembering movies?
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If the energy system failed in texas slightly below zero, how does the mars rover function on mars at 100-200 degrees below zero?
Is there absolutley 0 percent water on mars, so that the rover is not covered in icicles?
Is that dirt, dust, sand in the pictures of mars, rocks shavings that have no moisture?
Did scientist luck out and create a remote controlled car that can function perfectly in 100-200 degrees below 0, 225 million miles away from earth
Are there no elements that would effect pictures and machine function on mars, or is it like earth without any moisture?
Is there absolutley 0 percent water on mars, so that the rover is not covered in icicles?
Is that dirt, dust, sand in the pictures of mars, rocks shavings that have no moisture?
Did scientist luck out and create a remote controlled car that can function perfectly in 100-200 degrees below 0, 225 million miles away from earth
Are there no elements that would effect pictures and machine function on mars, or is it like earth without any moisture?
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