User Tag List

+ Reply to Thread
Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 11

Thread: NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, aims for dicey landing to search for ancient life

  1. #1
    Original Ranter
    Points: 858,855, Level: 100
    Level completed: 0%, Points required for next Level: 0
    Overall activity: 91.0%
    Achievements:
    SocialCreated Album picturesOverdrive50000 Experience PointsVeteran
    Awards:
    Posting Award
    Peter1469's Avatar Advisor
    Karma
    496510
    Join Date
    Jun 2011
    Location
    NOVA
    Posts
    241,630
    Points
    858,855
    Level
    100
    Thanks Given
    153,197
    Thanked 147,520x in 94,381 Posts
    Mentioned
    2552 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, aims for dicey landing to search for ancient life

    One of three Mars missions- NASA's rover will land near a crater that is a good candidate for finding evidence of life.


    NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, aims for dicey landing to search for ancient life

    They call it the “seven minutes of terror,” which doesn’t do justice to the weeks of anxiety, troubleshooting, second-guessing, sleepless nights — the mental cataloguing of all that could go wrong and all that must go exactly right. One cataloger is Matt Wallace, deputy project manager for NASA’s Perseverance rover mission. He has a simple way of describing what the space agency expects him and his fellow engineers to do: “Land a car on Mars.”This is one of the hardest technological feats human beings have ever attempted. The spacecraft carrying Perseverance, which launched from Earth at the end of July, is expected to arrive on Thursday at Mars at 12,000 miles per hour — six times faster than a bullet shot from an M16 — in what amounts to a controlled collision. Somehow, that velocity has to reach zero, with the rover deposited lovingly on the surface inside a crater named Jezero.

    Hitting the 4.8-mile-wide landing site targeted by NASA after a journey of 300 million miles is akin to throwing a dart from the White House and scoring a bull’s eye in Dallas.
    his is one of NASA’s most important endeavors, the first multibillion-dollar Mars mission in nine years and the initial phase of a three-mission campaign to return samples of Martian soil to Earth. The rover is poised to land just days after two other robotic spacecraft, launched by China and the United Arab Emirates, reached Mars and went into orbit.


    Perseverance will do more than probe the surface: It will also test technologies that someday could be used on Mars by astronauts, including a system for converting atmospheric carbon dioxide to oxygen. NASA’s human spaceflight program aims for a return mission to the moon in coming years, but Mars remains the horizon goal.

    Read the rest of the article at the link.
    ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ


  2. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Peter1469 For This Useful Post:

    Cotton1 (02-16-2021),RMNIXON (02-16-2021)

  3. #2
    Points: 119,120, Level: 83
    Level completed: 83%, Points required for next Level: 530
    Overall activity: 51.0%
    Achievements:
    SocialCreated Album pictures50000 Experience PointsOverdriveVeteran
    Cotton1's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    24495
    Join Date
    Dec 2018
    Location
    Mid-South
    Posts
    33,210
    Points
    119,120
    Level
    83
    Thanks Given
    27,205
    Thanked 24,504x in 16,031 Posts
    Mentioned
    146 Post(s)
    Tagged
    1 Thread(s)
    I'm looking forward to the first moon landing ever and then on to Mars !
    I'm yo.
    This my brother yo
    We yo yo

  4. #3
    Points: 143,721, Level: 91
    Level completed: 19%, Points required for next Level: 2,929
    Overall activity: 74.0%
    Achievements:
    Social50000 Experience PointsOverdriveVeteran
    carolina73's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    43642
    Join Date
    Sep 2019
    Posts
    57,470
    Points
    143,721
    Level
    91
    Thanks Given
    56,047
    Thanked 43,647x in 28,238 Posts
    Mentioned
    154 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Already seen it

    my-favorite-martian.jpg

  5. The Following User Says Thank You to carolina73 For This Useful Post:

    Cotton1 (02-16-2021)

  6. #4
    Points: 143,721, Level: 91
    Level completed: 19%, Points required for next Level: 2,929
    Overall activity: 74.0%
    Achievements:
    Social50000 Experience PointsOverdriveVeteran
    carolina73's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    43642
    Join Date
    Sep 2019
    Posts
    57,470
    Points
    143,721
    Level
    91
    Thanks Given
    56,047
    Thanked 43,647x in 28,238 Posts
    Mentioned
    154 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    How do you do a controlled crash at 12,000 mph?

  7. #5
    Points: 119,120, Level: 83
    Level completed: 83%, Points required for next Level: 530
    Overall activity: 51.0%
    Achievements:
    SocialCreated Album pictures50000 Experience PointsOverdriveVeteran
    Cotton1's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    24495
    Join Date
    Dec 2018
    Location
    Mid-South
    Posts
    33,210
    Points
    119,120
    Level
    83
    Thanks Given
    27,205
    Thanked 24,504x in 16,031 Posts
    Mentioned
    146 Post(s)
    Tagged
    1 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    Already seen it

    Attachment 34936
    I actually watched that show the other day. I think it was Sunday but do not remember what channel
    I'm yo.
    This my brother yo
    We yo yo

  8. The Following User Says Thank You to Cotton1 For This Useful Post:

    carolina73 (02-16-2021)

  9. #6
    Original Ranter
    Points: 858,855, Level: 100
    Level completed: 0%, Points required for next Level: 0
    Overall activity: 91.0%
    Achievements:
    SocialCreated Album picturesOverdrive50000 Experience PointsVeteran
    Awards:
    Posting Award
    Peter1469's Avatar Advisor
    Karma
    496510
    Join Date
    Jun 2011
    Location
    NOVA
    Posts
    241,630
    Points
    858,855
    Level
    100
    Thanks Given
    153,197
    Thanked 147,520x in 94,381 Posts
    Mentioned
    2552 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    NASA rover Perseverance on track for daredevil landing on Mars

    NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced robotic astrobiology lab ever flown to another world, neared the end of its seven-month, 293-million-mile (470-million-km) journey on Wednesday, hours away from a daredevil landing attempt on the Red Planet.








    With 370,000 miles (596,000 km) left to travel, Perseverance was hurtling through space on track for a bull’s-eye touchdown on Thursday inside a vast basin called Jezero Crater, site of a long-vanished Martian lake bed and river delta, mission managers said on Tuesday.


    The primary objective of the two-year, $2.7 billion mission is a search for evidence that microbial organisms may have flourished on Mars some 3 billion years ago, when the planet was warmer, wetter and presumably more hospitable to life.


    Larger and more sophisticated than any of the four mobile science vehicles NASA landed on Mars before it, Perseverance is designed to extract rock samples for future analysis back on Earth - the first such specimens ever collected by humankind from another planet.


    “I can tell you that Perseverance is operating perfectly right now, that all systems are go for landing,” Jennifer Trosper, deputy project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles, told an online briefing.
    ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ


  10. #7
    Points: 16,561, Level: 31
    Level completed: 12%, Points required for next Level: 889
    Overall activity: 0.1%
    Achievements:
    Social10000 Experience PointsVeteran
    US Conservative's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    5455
    Join Date
    Aug 2020
    Posts
    4,242
    Points
    16,561
    Level
    31
    Thanks Given
    6,760
    Thanked 5,445x in 2,856 Posts
    Mentioned
    6 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Real cool to watch this today. Cant wait to see if the drone can fly successfully.

  11. The Following User Says Thank You to US Conservative For This Useful Post:

    Peter1469 (02-18-2021)

  12. #8
    Original Ranter
    Points: 858,855, Level: 100
    Level completed: 0%, Points required for next Level: 0
    Overall activity: 91.0%
    Achievements:
    SocialCreated Album picturesOverdrive50000 Experience PointsVeteran
    Awards:
    Posting Award
    Peter1469's Avatar Advisor
    Karma
    496510
    Join Date
    Jun 2011
    Location
    NOVA
    Posts
    241,630
    Points
    858,855
    Level
    100
    Thanks Given
    153,197
    Thanked 147,520x in 94,381 Posts
    Mentioned
    2552 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by US Conservative View Post
    Real cool to watch this today. Cant wait to see if the drone can fly successfully.
    That would be cool if it works.
    ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ


  13. The Following User Says Thank You to Peter1469 For This Useful Post:

    US Conservative (02-18-2021)

  14. #9
    Points: 16,561, Level: 31
    Level completed: 12%, Points required for next Level: 889
    Overall activity: 0.1%
    Achievements:
    Social10000 Experience PointsVeteran
    US Conservative's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    5455
    Join Date
    Aug 2020
    Posts
    4,242
    Points
    16,561
    Level
    31
    Thanks Given
    6,760
    Thanked 5,445x in 2,856 Posts
    Mentioned
    6 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    That would be cool if it works.
    Its a very different atmosphere so they made a lot of guesses on flight parameters. Its also not the primary mission but if it works-we have sent flying drones to mars.

  15. The Following User Says Thank You to US Conservative For This Useful Post:

    Peter1469 (02-18-2021)

  16. #10
    Original Ranter
    Points: 858,855, Level: 100
    Level completed: 0%, Points required for next Level: 0
    Overall activity: 91.0%
    Achievements:
    SocialCreated Album picturesOverdrive50000 Experience PointsVeteran
    Awards:
    Posting Award
    Peter1469's Avatar Advisor
    Karma
    496510
    Join Date
    Jun 2011
    Location
    NOVA
    Posts
    241,630
    Points
    858,855
    Level
    100
    Thanks Given
    153,197
    Thanked 147,520x in 94,381 Posts
    Mentioned
    2552 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by US Conservative View Post
    Its a very different atmosphere so they made a lot of guesses on flight parameters. Its also not the primary mission but if it works-we have sent flying drones to mars.
    It is operating as expected!

    The Ingenuity helicopter, sidekick and traveling companion of NASA's Perseverance rover, has checked in with a good report and is "operating as expected," according to the agency.If successful, Ingenuity will be the first helicopter to fly on another planet, leading to an "extraterrestrial Wright Brothers moment," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate.


    The rover landed safely on the surface of Mars Thursday after launching from Earth on July 30. Perseverance has already sent back an impressive set of images to show that she's safe and ready to go through a "checkout" phase before starting her journey across the surface.


    Now, the mission team has heard directly from the helicopter for the first time -- and it's good news.



    Ingenuity is currently tucked up beneath the rover and attached to Perseverance's belly. The rover is about the size of an SUV, while the helicopter only weighs about 4 pounds.
    ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ


+ Reply to Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts