The 7 minutes of Martian terror
 

On the 18th of February NASA's Perseverance Rover attempts most dangerous Mars landing yet. One of goals of this mission is to store samples for later missions to collect and bring back to earth. Hope it works out and lands in one piece.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4tdMR5HLtg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ

Going to be a great year for space exploration. :up:


Hopefully the James Webb telescope gets up there this year as planned. :yep:

Going live in a few hours.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIooAx_GkJs

Thanks for this thread! I know I will be glued to the monitor in a couple of hours

1 minute to go


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ

It made it!

Sending images too!


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Absolutely amazing! Congratulations to everyone who worked and still work on this. :Kaleun_Salute:

Three successful landings within just a couple of days, no fails, 3:0! An acchievement!

If they keep this up, they will need to send over traffic lights soon!

I like it when they all jump up and cheer.

:yeah:

I missed it....:Kaleun_Crying:

Markus

You didn't miss too much, just a lot of tension, suspense and anxiety followed by sudden relief, cheering and congratulations. I think one of things which makes this mission different from others is they said they'll eventually have video and audio of the descent. They even sent a drone they can fly too.



Hope they captured some good video while that puppy was speeding along 5.3 kilometers per second. :yep:

Watched it on tv and found it as fascinating as that first first moon landing all those years ago.

What got me was the idea that what was going to happen had already happened. By the time JPL received information Perseverance was at atmosphere interface. It was in reality already either on the ground safely or scatter in a million pieces. That 12 minute delay was stressing me out.

You were stressed. I can imagine the groundcrew at JPL and NASA was a lot more stressed.

I'm in a marathon watching of Star Trek-TOS, TNG, Voy. DS9, disc. and the movies in this sequence. Have just watched TNG s2 ep.17.

One day in the future we will exploring the milky way with space craft which can travel with very high speed-Maybe not warp-but near warp

Markus

I know what you mean but until we develop quicker ways of communicating over great distances we are where we are at.

Where's Kirk or Spock when you need them?

That's the snag. Unless we do stumble across some fundamentally new physics that allows faster than light travel, moving from one end of the milky way to the other will take more than 100,000 years. If we do manage to move across the milky way at light speed, there are other problems like you arriving a few years older but your kids back home died of old age centuries or millennias ago.

I'm looking fwd to seeing the video it captured during landing. What an engineering feat.