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NASA Perseverance Rover heads to Mars -- Houston, we have a helicopter

Oberstein

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Ovek

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Nice, I really hope the crane that dropped the lander off was recording it in nice 4K. As a matter of fact did they land the crane or just crash it after it did it’s drop off?
 

INC

Member
2021 and no colour feed, whats it recording on? Betamax?

Wait, unless its night time lol
 
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Aggelos

Member
Mars first. Proxima Centauri next.

Ya, sure. Project Breakthrough Starshot, but that's no easy feat. It's quite a daunting feat, even for the StarChip probes guided by light-sails.
From a human perspective it will take some time. The earliest timeframe the StarChip probes would reach the Alpha Centauri system is the 2050s.


"The project was announced on 12 April 2016 in an event held in New York City by physicist and venture capitalist Yuri Milner, together with cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who was serving as board member of the initiatives. Other board members include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The project has an initial funding of US$100 million to initialize research. Milner places the final mission cost at $5–10 billion, and estimates the first craft could launch by around 2036. Pete Worden is the project's executive director and Harvard Professor Avi Loeb chairs the advisory board for the project."
"A flyby mission has been proposed to Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone of its host star, Proxima Centauri, in the Alpha Centauri system. At a speed between 15% and 20% of the speed of light, it would take between twenty and thirty years to complete the journey, and approximately four years for a return message from the starship to Earth. "









 
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DragoonKain

Neighbours from Hell
I only have one bucket list item. Be alive when intelligent life is discovered out there somewhere. I'll even take a confirmed structure that would have to have been built by another species even if we don't get confirmation of the species itself.

But just finding microbial life on Mars would be cool.
 

FunkMiller

Gold Member
I only have one bucket list item. Be alive when intelligent life is discovered out there somewhere. I'll even take a confirmed structure that would have to have been built by another species even if we don't get confirmation of the species itself.

But just finding microbial life on Mars would be cool.

Unless you're in your seventies, you should be good for the existence of microbial life, at least. It'll be around ten years when we start to get material back from Mars, and given all the indications present in existing data, the chances of something being found fossilised are pretty high. Intelligent life is never likely, given the size and scale of the universe.
 

matty3092

Member
Now Admittedly I only have a passing interest in space exploration why is it that we pretty much never get really high quality videos/screenshot of Mars etc?
 

DragoonKain

Neighbours from Hell
It's wild how we've come so far yet really haven't at all. In the grand scheme of the age of our planet it wasn't that long ago when humanity didn't even know planets were a thing. And fast forward to present day, we're landing on other planets. But only neighboring ones. So it's like we've come so far, but really can only land on our neighbors property. We haven't even left the "neighborhood" yet, let alone the "city."
 

mansoor1980

Gold Member
at age14saw pictures from the viking lander in my science encyclopedia book and was amazed , now looking at that landing video and i cannot believe wat i am seeing
 
Brilliant imagery there. Congrats to NASA and associates. So many people work on these things, amazing what can be achieve when working together instead of fighting over bullshit.
 
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