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Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:35 am

Curiosity is set to seek life on Mars

NASA is preparing to launch its latest rover on a bid to discover if there is – or ever was – life on Mars. The robot buggy, called Curiosity and the size of a Mini car, will be carried on an eight-month journey to the Red Planet in the $2.5 billion unmanned mission due for launch tomorrow, Saturday 26 November.
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Curiosity zaps a rock with its laser in this artist's impression (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

On landing, it will trundle around at the foot of a three-mile high mountain in 96-mile wide Gale Crater. The site has been chosen because photos from orbit show it contains exposed layers of sediment rich in clays and minerals that must have formed in water. Scientists believe this makes it an ideal place to look for organic evidence of any Martian life forms. Curiosity – also known as Mars Science Laboratory – is being launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was given its name by an American schoolgirl.

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Re: Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:50 pm

235 days to landing...mark your calendars!

Data collection is underway though: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogal ... =124459341

We need more of these missions.

We ought to be working on a manned mission. Oh, the shame of wasted opportunities and wasted time...
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:53 pm

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:54 pm

Mars Exploration Program (JPL/NASA site.)
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Re: Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:56 pm

3....2....1....for person to comment "why are we spending all this money on silly trips to Mars, when we have so many problems here on Earth..."
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:58 pm

What Mars needs is more guns. The whole place is a predator free-fire zone.
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Re: Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by klr » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:59 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:What Mars needs is more guns. The whole place is a predator free-fire zone.
Just make sure you've got the gravitational effects worked into the ballistics. :stanley:

And the almost complete lack of oxygen ...
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:08 pm

That skyhook shit has me :nervous:
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Re: Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:11 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:That skyhook shit has me :nervous:
This. I can see why they had to do it that way but there is a lot that could go wrong there...
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Re: Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by Azathoth » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:12 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:235 days to landing...mark your calendars!

Data collection is underway though: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogal ... =124459341

We need more of these missions.

We ought to be working on a manned mission. Oh, the shame of wasted opportunities and wasted time...
Human physiology is the barrier there. Anyone they sent would be a wasted mess and crippled in earth gravity by the time they got back
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Re: Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:13 pm

Anybody of a countdown timer for this? :begging:
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Re: Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:14 pm

Azathoth wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:235 days to landing...mark your calendars!

Data collection is underway though: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogal ... =124459341

We need more of these missions.

We ought to be working on a manned mission. Oh, the shame of wasted opportunities and wasted time...
Human physiology is the barrier there. Anyone they sent would be a wasted mess and crippled in earth gravity by the time they got back
Who says they need to come back...
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Re: Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:15 pm

I'd stay, if Ayaan and the cats went with. Cyndi in Mars gravity? :funny:
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Re: Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:16 pm

Azathoth wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:235 days to landing...mark your calendars!

Data collection is underway though: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogal ... =124459341

We need more of these missions.

We ought to be working on a manned mission. Oh, the shame of wasted opportunities and wasted time...
Human physiology is the barrier there. Anyone they sent would be a wasted mess and crippled in earth gravity by the time they got back
It's a problem to solve.
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Re: Curiosity about life on Mars.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:16 pm

Colonists aren't supposed to come back.
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