RIP, Schiaparelli: European Mars Lander's Crash Site Seen By NASA Probe

Space.com ^ | October 21, 2016 | Mike Wall

[Bob]

Nah, that’ll buff right out. :=)

[buffaloguy]

Lucas Electronics?

Lucas, the Prince of Darkness...

[Gene Eric]

My point concerns navigation to Mars, not the failure to land unbroken.

[dr_lew]

OK, it’s semantics.

arrival 1: the act of arriving 2: the attainment of an end or state

I say a cataclysmic crash is in no sense an arrival, except perhaps ironically.

[Gene Eric]

Certainly, the 1st sub-definition describes my intended point.

Politically, I suppose the flight was a disaster, but from the engineering standpoint, the team made progress.

Checking out, g’night.

[dr_lew]

Politically, I suppose the flight was a disaster, but from the engineering standpoint, the team made progress.

Politically, you say? ... made progress you say? Anybody might bombard Mars with projectiles.

I would advise you not to console the Schiaparelli team by telling them they "made progress". The landing is the WHOLE THING. Can't you see that?

[cgbg]

Aliens make the best hackers. :-)

[SteveH]

a “Rendezvous with Rama” philosophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama

[Ken H]

We should send Opportunity over the crash site to send back some hi-res photos and maybe hold up a piece of the wreckage for the camera.

With a Charlie Daniels voice-over => 'That's how it's done, son.'

[outofsalt]

I'm not saying it's aliens but,

It's aliens!

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> That sucks. But it arrived nonetheless.

There is no ‘participation trophy’ for this one.

What is the goal of this mission? It failed.