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Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: Libertas on November 26, 2018, 01:05:53 PM

Title: NASA's InSight Mars Lander about to touch down
Post by: Libertas on November 26, 2018, 01:05:53 PM
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#media (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#media)

Maybe see those aliens who built a Tesla-like electrostatic power distribution system that kept the Opportunity rover going well past its 90 day life expectancy...14 years and 214 days longer to be specific!

Or did engineers actually make something that operated that well?

 ;D
Title: Re: NASA's InSight Mars Lander about to touch down
Post by: Libertas on November 26, 2018, 01:21:49 PM
I think they just said 30 minutes to touchdown.
Title: Re: NASA's InSight Mars Lander about to touch down
Post by: Libertas on November 26, 2018, 01:53:01 PM
Parachutes deploying.
Title: Re: NASA's InSight Mars Lander about to touch down
Post by: Libertas on November 26, 2018, 01:57:21 PM
Landed.

Jeez, these kids at NASA celebrate and hug like a man landed.  If a man did land I don't know if they could hold onto their mud?!

 ::hysterical::
Title: Re: NASA's InSight Mars Lander about to touch down
Post by: Libertas on November 26, 2018, 02:02:10 PM
First pic showed a dirty lens...where's the wipers?   :o

(https://blogs.nasa.gov/insight/wp-content/uploads/sites/282/2018/11/PIA22829.png)

I find it curious, they keep landing in the same geographic corridor.

(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/image_card_4x3_ratio/public/pia17357.jpg)
Title: Re: NASA's InSight Mars Lander about to touch down
Post by: paulh on November 26, 2018, 02:27:04 PM
Why? Who really cares?
Title: Re: NASA's InSight Mars Lander about to touch down
Post by: Libertas on November 27, 2018, 07:49:26 AM
Quote from: paulh on November 26, 2018, 02:27:04 PM
Why? Who really cares?

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess "not you".

It's OK.  Can't be all politics and circling the drain 24/7 here...variety is the spice of life...or some such rot...