Posted on 09/04/2014 9:20:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA’s planetary senior review panel harshly criticized the scientific return of the Curiosity rover in a report released yesterday (Sept. 3), saying the mission lacks focus and the team is taking actions that show they think the $2.5-billion mission is “too big to fail.”
While the review did recommend the mission receive more funding — along with the other six NASA extended planetary missions being scrutinized — members recommended making several changes to the mission. One of them would be reducing the distance that Curiosity drives in favor of doing more detailed investigations when it stops.
The role of the senior review, which is held every two years, is to help NASA decide what money should be allocated to its extended missions. This is important, because the agency (as with many other departments) has limited funds and tries to seek a balance between spending money on new missions and keeping older ones going strong.
Engineering acumen means that many missions are now operating well past their expiry dates, such as the Cassini orbiter at Saturn and the Opportunity rover on Mars. In examining the seven missions being reviewed, the panel did recommend keeping funding for all, but said that 4/7 are facing significant problems.
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Muslim contribution to NASA?
These people need to get in line. I noticed that the mission of NASA (moozlum outreach and promotion) is nowhere advanced by the rover mission. It should be cancelled immediately.
Which one, the NASA mission or the ROVER mission ?
Does it have its own reality show? No! Abandon that sorry little machine.
If it’s just driving around taking pictures, then no reason to keep it going. We enough pictures of Mars and know what’s there. Nothing.
n second thought, maybe the rover should have its head chopped off because it isn’t toeing the moozlum line.
Hogwash...the pics that Rover has been sending back are stunningly awesome! They would not have been taken if all it did was sit around in the same spot drilling holes days after day.
If you give her directions from the flag that we planted there, Sheila Jackson Lee can hunt it down and behead it for us.
No, don’t end the program, I want more pictures from the Rover of thigh-bones, lizards, logs and tiny little mermen on Mars!
While the review did recommend the mission receive more funding...
Well, looks to me like they were right....
I can not tell a lie.
I stole it.
Got it at my local slot car track.
Eating up the track.
No kidding. They put wheels and eyes on it for good reason.
Some here however would be quite content watching manned shuttle missions going into it’s 60,000th orbit of the earth...Around and around....
This probably reflects the influence of the astrobiology cult in NASA. They really, really want to find something that suggests that life evolved on Mars.
SETI has turned out to be a dry hole for the astrobiologists, so their focus is set on Mars. If there’s any evidence of such, the rover has to move frequently to find it.
Your tax dollars support this: http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/. Astrobiology uses the highest of technologies developed by science, but it is not science. It is a pathetic grasping for sketchy evidence to support an inherently unprovable hypothesis.
Maybe the rover can plant an ISIS flag on Mars. You know, so muslims can feel proud about their achievements.
Needs more Mooselimb outreach.
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