If isis were truly badass, they’d claim responsibility.
ESA and Russia are getting pretty good at bouncing landers off
planets and comets.
It’s been known to happen before, when someone mixed up feet vs meters and - having calculated that it must have landed - shut off the retro rockets a couple miles above ground. Splat.
Depends on the fuel and oxidizer, doesn’t it? No oxygen on Mars, so the two would have to be assumed to be “mixed” as the tanks broke and pipe spewed chemicals in various directions and at various quantities as they broke up in the near-vacuum of Mars.
On earth, a rocket explosion on the launch pad always has oxygen available to use up all of the available fuel. But on Mars, if the two were not hyperglotic (sp ??) and combusted by mixing, they would just evaporate as long as they didn’t “touch” at the right percentages.
Meanwhile and back on earth, mooselimbs crave the 7th century.
Might want to avoid sending other probes to that area. Obviously something there that the locals don’t want us to see.
The European Space Agency denied rumors that their engineers neglected to convert from Arabic cubits to meters in calculating the landing parameters.
Maybe they used miles intead of km like we did
Oops.
The Europeans had a very poor plan for landing the Schiaparelli. The plan was to open the parachute upon impact, and then turn the reverse thrust on. Didn’t work, and the Martians are very angry. Who knows, that crash-landing probably wiped out the only traces of life on the planet.
Is this the planet made of cheese?
Our government agencies can locate a crash site millions and millions of miles away on a hostile planet, but can’t find 30,000 e-mails on a plastic and metal box here on Earth?
Good thing they weren’t spending their own money.
With today’s launch, Europe and Russia seek to break the Mars “curse”
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/with-todays-launch-europe-and-russia-seek-to-break-the-mars-curse/
THE MARS CURSE
http://www.universetoday.com/13267/the-mars-curse-why-have-so-many-missions-failed/
With ExoMars, will Russia break its “Mars Curse?”
http://www.reallycoolblog.com/with-exomars-will-russia-break-its-mars-curse/
Parachute? I see the problem.
I’m shocked pink!
You only think they screwed up. Actually, they planned to do that. However, the reason is a secret.
Well great. Now the Martians think we’re attacking them.