Then what? Whatever happened to baby steps? We are still clumsy at just orbiting earth, only went to the moon and back once in 50 years and apparently we already think we're ready for Mars. Good luck with finding signs of ancient life there. Do we even know what we are supposed to do with that knowledge? What if you don't? Will that change anything? I certainly encourage curiosity, innovation, ingenuity and pioneering, I just wonder how much future generations are being rushed into too many uncertain realities in the name of technological achievements. Here we are still trying to learn how NOT to terraform a planet.
If you will, I want to reply you. Like all the other knowledge, this is important to improve... The changments aren't visible, you have to take in account the possibility that we could feel this innovations only in the far future, but if we don't improve now the space adventures, there won't be a future plenty of spacecraft in the space travelling in our solar sistem in order to reach some locations like Mars, Venus, some random Jupiter's moons and so on. Those places will be habitable sooner than we think. And besides that, whether or not there was life on Mars, something possible expecially in the past, we'll know because of this mission. In other words, this isn't only wonderful, but it is also useful!
If they find anything out of the ordinary we'll never hear about it.
Looks very much like the pictures of the first Moon landing.
We'll never hear about it because some much of this is being censored because NASA powers to beAnyone interested in the possibility of finding evidence of extra terrestrial life might like to look at the "Earthlike planet found" thread in Astronomy, where there is some attempt to arrive at suitable understanding of what "Earthlike" means.
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I would love to find on these planets ( in a very, very far future) this typology of life very close to ours. Anyways, in my opinion if there is life out there, they aren't forced to be like us. Firstly, we don't know a lot about them, as far as I'm concerned aliens can be even strange plants. Secondly, we cannot be sure that on these planets there are eucaryote organisms instead of the usually prokaryotic organisms we can find (maybe) on Venus or Mars. As I always say, life is common, intelligence isn't so common, it is hard to discover. I nearly forgot, what if aliens aren't like the forms of life in this planet? I mean, what if there are beings that instead of breathe oxigen like the most organisms in this planet they breathe carbon dioxide, or, for instance, methane. This seems to be quite impossible, but we cannot know this, planets whom are classified to be unhabitable for us can be inhabitated by them, this is all.
In 1950 a 10yr old kid (me) discovered Sc-Fi in a library in Cavite, Philippines while looking for Tarzan but found author, Edgar Rice Burroughs also wrote a Sci-Fi novel about MARs & Martians> 14yrs later 1964 NASA had a problem on Apollo that that kid SOLVED> if RocketDyne could NOT figure out how to CALIBRATE rocket thrusters NO ONE was going to the MOON, b/c game plan REQ'D a "Dock in Space"> So I designed the 1st Impulse Load Cell to calibrate thrusters for precise CONTROL of S/C maneuvering in space OR landing, so it is w/great Satisfaction for me to see CALIBRATED thrusters used to land on Mars, 71yrs AFTER I 1st read about landing on Mars back in 1950> Here's the Design of the Impulse Load Cell designed in 1964 (over 50yrs b/4 China figured it out) & proven by Neil on Gemeni Project as Armstrong b/c 1st to "Dock in Space"" thks to CalibratedAfter setting off in the Summer last year, NASA's Perseverance rover is finally set to touchdown on the red planet. For a few reasons, this is an exciting time to be a space enthusiast. First of all, this mission represents a the most promising cache of samples, adding to a whole lot of Mars exploration that focuses on how habitable this planet was. Additionally, part of this mission involves a helicopter, named Ingenuity, that launched with Perseverance. This aircraft be testing out what flying through the Martian atmosphere is like!
Perseverance has Landed!
UPDATE: We've got a NASA livestream happening today, revealing more about what it took to land Percy on Mars AND showing us some new images and video from the red planet!
Watch along with us! The stream starts at 2PM ET and can be seen below:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQwuYZbA6o&feature=emb_title
Image credit: NASA
It's an exciting week here on the Space forums. Join us and watch the NASA livestream below. Perseverance lands tomorrow, February 18th, with the live webcast beginning at 2:15 PM EST.
After setting off in the Summer last year, NASA's Perseverance rover is finally set to touchdown on the red planet. For a few reasons, this is an exciting time to be a space enthusiast. First of all, this mission represents a the most promising cache of samples, adding to a whole lot of Mars exploration that focuses on how habitable this planet was. Additionally, part of this mission involves a helicopter, named Ingenuity, that launched with Perseverance. This aircraft be testing out what flying through the Martian atmosphere is like!
UPDATE: We've got a NASA livestream happening today, revealing more about what it took to land Percy on Mars AND showing us some new images and video from the red planet!
Watch along with us! The stream starts at 2PM ET and can be seen below:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQwuYZbA6o&feature=emb_title
Image credit: NASA
It's an exciting week here on the Space forums. Join us and watch the NASA livestream below. Perseverance lands tomorrow, February 18th, with the live webcast beginning at 2:15 PM EST.
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My understanding is they switched from the "airbag" style landing (Pathfinder, Opportunity) to the rocket assisted delivery (Curiosity, Perseverance) to the Mars surface is that it allows them to land more capable (and therefore heavier) rovers, as the airbags do not provide enough cushioning once the payload is over 1,000 pounds or so.
That is truly AMAZING its been on our TV over in the UK tooThis is so cool! I'll definitely tell my daughter so she can watch the stream.
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