[Technology] NASA Perseverance Mars Landing!

[dazzer6666]

The first pictures have been beamed back - let the Celebrations begin!

 

[ChickenBaltiPie]

Cynical as I am about spunking away money on this sort of thing, my daughters love it so we watch avidly. However, my daughter pointed out, if the object is to collect samples for future missions to gather - then why can't they just collect new samples when the next ship arrives and save all the time and money on today's mission?
Sorry, forgot to say that I'm trying to stay on topic!

Warning Space Geek...Collecting samples is way down the priority list of objectives for Percy, BUT, it’s important to collect samples ‘before’ humans arrive to avoid contaminated samples, and there are plans in motion to return them. The next rover (if it arrives before humans/privatised space companies eg SpaceX) will have the primary intention of sending samples back. (It will have a mini rocket to launch them back out into space on a trajectory for earth.)

 

[Questions]

All the other " Rovers " who pancaked on landing..... must be like a scrap metal yard up there.

““What you after mate ..... landing gear for a Rover Mk 11” ?

 

[Questions]

Any reports yet of sailors fighting in the dancehall ?

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

The first pictures have been beamed back - let the Celebrations begin!

Do you mean having a party are you still doing the chocolate puns?
I'm confused on this one, but one thing is for sure NASA are Smarties, but I would have preffered it if we had gone somewhere with some action.

 

[Barham's tash]

Do you mean having a party are you still doing the chocolate puns?
I'm confused on this one, but one thing is for sure NASA are Smarties, but I would have preffered it if we had gone somewhere with some action.

Yeah they didn’t even manage to capture any starbursts on the way down. Amateur.

 

[rocker959]

All the way from Hollywood

 

[Norman Potting]

Have they filmed a Clanger yet ?

 

[m@goo]

Have they filmed a Clanger yet ?

That's Monday night.

 

[bomber130]

Everyone should keep to the topic of the rover and not chocolate puns


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[dazzer6666]

Everyone should keep to the topic of the rover and not chocolate puns


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Ha, I should cocoa...........

 

[jakarta]

Cant believe that this hasn't been posted yet. The Mighty Hawks saw all this back in 1977...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGyeULvpQdY&t=43s

 

[zefarelly]

Ha, I should cocoa...........

I always wondered what happened to all those biscuit tins. They can't all be full of rusty screws in garages

 

[Jahooli]

Any reports yet of sailors fighting in the dancehall ?

No, it’s a god awful small affair apparently.

 

[The Albion Roar]

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[marlowe]

What time did Perseverance land on Mars exactly? I asked my wife but she could only give me a vague answer of some time After Eight.

 

[Hugo Rune]

The first pictures have been beamed back - let the Celebrations begin!

NASA are hoping to get the HD videos of the landing (with sound) soon. This will be the first video of a spade craft landing on another planet. I can’t wait.

 

[KZNSeagull]

NASA are hoping to get the HD videos of the landing (with sound) soon. This will be the first video of a spade craft landing on another planet. I can’t wait.

Forkin 'ell.

 

[marlowe]

Double post

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

Come on NASA give us some more pictures.
Waiting for them to release new footage is as nerve wracking as the landing was.