Posted on 11/26/2018 11:41:57 AM PST by NormsRevenge
I just hope they accidentally brought some microbes. Start seeding the planet.
I like it. The clapping and cheering makes it more entertaining, and that’s why I watch.
The SpaceX employees can be really loud. The Falcon Heavy launch was better than the Super Bowl.
If those briefcase-size cubesats reach an alien civilization some day, they will assume we are a tiny humanoid species only 18” tall.
No actual video of the landing?
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No, but I think they used experimental cubesats launched with the lander in order to transmit data back real time.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/missions/marco.php
Exactly!
NASA needs to contract PR to these guys:
Nope; just some metal and plastic stuff.
ALL the money involved stayed right here on Earth.
Do you want it in real time?
When the Mars and the Earth are at the opposite sides of the Sun, the distance is the largest: approximately: 378 million km. The time needed for an electromagnetic wave to cover this distance is approximately: 21 minute.
The closest distance between Mars and Earth is 78 million km, the time in this case is: 4.3 min.
There will be a delay somewhere between these two figures.
Thank you Debbie Downer.
on MARS?
I think you may be convinced The MARTIAN was a documentary film.
I read that it landed!!!!! This is so cool!
How much is that in American?
It's American physics lingo, too.
True, but most Americans sort of glaze over when scientists and reporters start talking in metric to lay audiences.
The better scientists and writers are aware of that language divide, and use standard measurement terms when speaking to non scientists.
Actually the “billion dollars” has not been shot off into space.
The money is in the pockets of those working for the companies that put the mission together.
Not exactly a waste but maybe better off in other WORKER’S pockets.
Going to Mars is, in my opinion, an exploratory mission to confirm that what scientists and “astrophysicists” have determined about Mars, its atmosphere, gravity and all is accurate.
For those who say that we may need to “escape” to Mars in the event that Earth is doomed: Earth’s doom will follow our Sun’s doom. There will be no place to go to when that happens. Forget other Solar systems, they are too far away.
Don’t take a thing away from those who accomplished their goal.
A successful mission. Kudos to all involved.
See my earlier post.
About 1.3 miles per second, = fast.
Not as fast as our Earth is traveling in its journey around the Sun. That would be almost 19 miles per second.
If those briefcase-size cubesats reach an alien civilization some day, they will assume we are a tiny humanoid species only 18” tall.
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Lol Good one.
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