InSight Mars Lander

[edd_jedi]

It landed on the red planet last night, you can see a feed of photos from the lander at this link:

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cdate_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=insight

Star Wars is cool, but it blows my mind that this is real.

 

[Frunkstar]

Thank goodness we are finally moving forward, sadly the last couple of missions have been a total bust, looking forward to seeing new images & reading whats been discovered.

 

[mr_palitoy]

It needs windscreen wipers:-

Jason

 

[Michael Sith]

Looking forward to this and how it goes

They are drilling into the surface which may come up with some surprising results 8)

 

[theforceuk]

Always exciting when something new lands on Mars, this one is a bit boring to me though. Drilling 5 metres down is pretty good I suppose. They need to strop farting around with these probes and start collinizing the place. :lol:

 

[Palifan]

Looking forward to this and how it goes

They are drilling into the surface which may come up with some surprising results 8)

Maybe they'll find all those old Palitoy MOC's

Ian

 

[theforceuk]

Imagine how yellow all the bubbles would go on Mars with all that UV exposure!

 

[lejackal]

Looking forward to this and how it goes

They are drilling into the surface which may come up with some surprising results 8)

Maybe they'll find all those old Palitoy MOC's

Ian

:lol: :lol:

 

[subzero]

Exciting stuff and I can't wait to see what they find ( if they decide to tell us the full truth :lol: ), I watched the landing live on youtube listening to every stage through it's decent, although everything they were receiving had already happened 6 mins earlier but was still brilliant to see happening.

I also strongly agree we're spending way too much resources and time now on these little robotic ****ers, it's not the 90's anymore we clearly have the technology now, instead just use all those resources to advance a manned mission ffs who can bring much better equipment with them to Mars for all these little experiments, not to mention the fact of landing humans on Mars which needs to happen sooner rather than later. Why the need to waste a mission on knowing what's going on inside Mars when we can just find out all this **** anyway when we actually get there in the next 15 years?, there's no immediate rush in needing to know the seismic data.

The instance just a single human lands on Mars all of those fancy expensive rovers and landers are instantly redundant, stop wasting money on any more of them, they could learn a thing or two from Douglas Quaid... "Get your ass to Mars!"

 

[peekaygee73]

I'm a bit out of date on this, but so far as I know the main issues with travel to Mars are :

Storage of sufficient fuel to get there;
Safe landing on Mars; and
Understanding enough about the climate/surface to ensure people sent there can be kept alive.

Pretty fundamental stuff!

Cancellation of the space shuttle programme didn't help, although there's an argument that the space shuttle itself was one of the biggest factors in us losing focus on travelling to Mars.

 

[Snaketibe]

Plus the fact that it's unbelievably expensive to accomplish. I'm not saying mankind shouldn't do it (on the contrary, I believe we should), but it will require one or more governments diverting sufficient funds and resources into making it happen, and then selling the cost to their electrorates.

Oh, and let's not forget having sufficient radiation shielding to prevent any Mars astronauts having a guaranteed early death from multiple cancers caused by cosmic rays, since they will no longer have the Earth's magnetosphere to protect them, and they'll be exposed for many months, possibly years on end journeying there, living on Mars and then coming back again.

 

[theforceuk]

All those problems we will get over and their is a lot more to overcome before we get there. Private space travel is the way forward for me, it's far to unpopular for governments to plough billions into space travel and unfortunately I think the space agencies are going to get left behind.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/22/spacex-leading-the-space-race-to-launch-humans-to-mars.html

 

[Mini99]

I'm a bit out of date on this, but so far as I know the main issues with travel to Mars are :

Storage of sufficient fuel to get there;
Safe landing on Mars; and
Understanding enough about the climate/surface to ensure people sent there can be kept alive.

Pretty fundamental stuff!

Cancellation of the space shuttle programme didn't help, although there's an argument that the space shuttle itself was one of the biggest factors in us losing focus on travelling to Mars.

Plus the fact that it's unbelievably expensive to accomplish. I'm not saying mankind shouldn't do it (on the contrary, I believe we should), but it will require one or more governments diverting sufficient funds and resources into making it happen, and then selling the cost to their electrorates.

Oh, and let's not forget having sufficient radiation shielding to prevent any Mars astronauts having a guaranteed early death from multiple cancers caused by cosmic rays, since they will no longer have the Earth's magnetosphere to protect them, and they'll be exposed for many months, possibly years on end journeying there, living on Mars and then coming back again.

Yes, ok, but other than that...what's stopping us! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Snaketibe]

I'm a bit out of date on this, but so far as I know the main issues with travel to Mars are :

Storage of sufficient fuel to get there;
Safe landing on Mars; and
Understanding enough about the climate/surface to ensure people sent there can be kept alive.

Pretty fundamental stuff!

Cancellation of the space shuttle programme didn't help, although there's an argument that the space shuttle itself was one of the biggest factors in us losing focus on travelling to Mars.

Plus the fact that it's unbelievably expensive to accomplish. I'm not saying mankind shouldn't do it (on the contrary, I believe we should), but it will require one or more governments diverting sufficient funds and resources into making it happen, and then selling the cost to their electrorates.

Oh, and let's not forget having sufficient radiation shielding to prevent any Mars astronauts having a guaranteed early death from multiple cancers caused by cosmic rays, since they will no longer have the Earth's magnetosphere to protect them, and they'll be exposed for many months, possibly years on end journeying there, living on Mars and then coming back again.

Yes, ok, but other than that...what's stopping us! :lol: :lol: :lol:

The real problem with Mars is astronauts' gloves... They can't get the wrapper off...

I'll get my coat :lol:

 

[yoda]

This guy put himself forward to get dumped on Mars to be used for science. Probably in desperation he felt it was a way out of his predicament.
https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/108917993/syrian-man-is-granted-asylum-in-canada-after-living-in-airport-for-seven-months&ved=2ahUKEwjotbSY_fveAhWEYysKHblNAmIQxfQBMAB6BAgBEAQ&usg=AOvVaw2GBMmVHUrtA5YPnbPQiZ8Y

 

[theforceuk]

Pretty cool, you can listen to the wind on Mars.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46489199