Perseverance rover has successfully landed on Mars

OregonDucks said:
IMO waste of money. We get it, space is really far away, yes it’s a fascinating basically incomprehensible size, but I’ve never understood why we spend millions and millions and millions of dollars and time on trying to get some craft to the moon or some different orbit, when we have yet to cure cancer here. Money better spent in curing that then getting grainy photos on the moon or Mars.
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OregonDucks said:
IMO waste of money. We get it, space is really far away, yes it’s a fascinating basically incomprehensible size, but I’ve never understood why we spend millions and millions and millions of dollars and time on trying to get some craft to the moon or some different orbit, when we have yet to cure cancer here. Money better spent in curing that then getting grainy photos on the moon or Mars.
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The world has come along pretty far since Windows 95. Maybe you should do the same...

Just sayin'! :nod:
 
OregonDucks said:
IMO waste of money. We get it, space is really far away, yes it’s a fascinating basically incomprehensible size, but I’ve never understood why we spend millions and millions and millions of dollars and time on trying to get some craft to the moon or some different orbit, when we have yet to cure cancer here. Money better spent in curing that then getting grainy photos on the moon or Mars.
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I can respect this opinion. For some looking up at the stars at night there isn’t that sense of exploration.

I’m sure there was someone on Queen Elizabeth the firsts council who wondered why so much was going into exploring and discovering distant lands and not discovering a way to keep the plague from coming back as well
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
These were just the kind of images I hoped we could get across the millions of miles of transmission. This ones really going to give us the real view of Mars.
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The imaging is just plain impressive. :hail: to nasa.
 
dikowt dowg said:
The imaging is just plain impressive. :hail: to nasa.
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When they landed they said many times that images would come in a few hours. And then what came was grainy and black and white. I think some saw that as “this is the great images they promised”. No, their time quote was wrong. There was a lot of things to get online after landing. Send a signal for the unit to do something and wait so long for it to get there and so long to get a signal back that it was done.

Realizing last night it was only about three days to get these images is amazing.
 
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Meet the Mini Space Helicopter That Will Send Back Images From Mars This Spring

Act one was Perseverance landing on Jezero Crater. Act two will be its mini-eVTOL, Ingenuity, flying over the Red Planet's wild surface.
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“Classified as a technology demonstration, Ingenuity will conduct five flights, beginning sometime in April,” Steven Agid, an aerospace engineer at the Kennedy Space Center, told Robb Report. “Starting with simple vertical lift operations, each flight will last up to 90 seconds, ranging from 10 to 15 feet above Mars’s surface. Subsequent tests will expand Ingenuity’s flight envelope, with the longest flight covering three football fields.”
 
Hey!!!! Is that our stimulus money??
 
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