Mars probe preparing for dangerous landing on red planet »
Posted By sleepingbeauty2 4 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsThe Phoenix Mars Lander will be the first spacecraft in four years to land on the Red Planet, hurtling through the atmosphere to finally rest on the icy soils near the north pole on May 25. The entire $420 million (Ã;£215 million) Nasa mission will hinge on this moment. Previous missions have failed spectacularly at th
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capn_caveman4 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm really starting to get excited about this mission. I hope all goes well tomorrow. It would be a shame to lose this spacecraft.
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CRYMTYPHON4 months, 2 weeks ago
They are getting good at this;
I bet it works.
But...
I bet it finds a bunch of rocks mixed with ice and salt.
When the rovers first started wandering mars, i saw fossils of three-eyed martian skulls in every blurry rock.
Then I lowered my hopes to martian trilobites.
I am still vaguely hoping for single-cell lichen; but
am becoming reconciled to the fact that mars is probably
just plain cold and empty.
Unless those caves...
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CB_Brooklyn4 months, 2 weeks ago
Has anyone seen this collection of NASA photos? It's interesting and also quite bizarre. Take a look:
Mars Anomalies
http://www.checktheevidence.co.uk/cms/index.php...
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LeftTurn4 months, 2 weeks ago
Good show CB, as there are too many questions still unanswered.
I don't see how mankind will benefit from all this if we don't know the half of what's really going on out there. It's because they think we are ignorant as a whole and can't handle the truth, and maybe that's true, but we smart enough to earn them all the money they use for it, so we deserve to know everything.
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CrawfordBizDev4 months, 2 weeks ago
"But as the Martian winter plunges the lander into darkness, its solar panels will no longer be able to produce enough power to sustain the lander and it will freeze as temperatures drop to almost -225 degrees F (-143 C)."
Going to need a jacket up there, it's a tad nippy.
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CRYMTYPHON4 months, 2 weeks ago
If we learn only one thing, one smallest fact about mars, after the millions of dollars spent, the thousands of man hours poured into this project, -
it will have been a waste. Sorry. Let's be real.
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