Posted on 06/07/2020 10:35:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Both NASA and China's space agency hope to launch new rovers for Mars in the coming weeks, and if they make it they'll become the 9th and 10th craft to successfully land on the surface of our planetary neighbor.
Hopefully, neither NASA's Perseverance rover nor China's Tianwen-1 rover become the next machine to end its mission abruptly with a crash landing on Mars. At least two craft have crashed, while four others have lost contact with Earth just before or after landing.
To mark the upcoming Martian launch season, which only occurs when the planets are best aligned for the trip every 26 months, the Planetary Society put together the below map of all 17 Mars landing attempts, past and future, up through the planned 2023 landing of a European rover and Russian lander.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
*ping*
Tell her Rock Hudson will be there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles_(miniseries)
The first (mostly) successful probe to Mars was US Mariner 4, missed its keyhole and didn’t enter orbit, but took a dozen or so photos during its flyby, closeups by the standards of the day, took everyone’s breath away.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mariner+4&tbm=vid
I was unaware the Martians had shot down that many.
“Here’s every place we’ve [?] landed or crashed robots on Mars”
if we keep turning mars in to a junkyard like that, the Martians are gonna be REALLY pissed when we finally land some humans there ...
It was the Klingons around Uranus that shot them down. I’m 57 and my Toilet Humor Fu is strong.........
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