Mars Rover Landing
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After the last year and a current quarantine with the fam, I don’t think I’d have to be single to sign up
When I was a student, I was in the ISU Space Society. We did a booth thing at Veisha every year.
One of the things we set up was a simulated Martian rover. We had a 4x8 ft "Mars" surface, with a small RC car to simulate a rover. But the RC operator sat inside our geodesic dome, and had to navigate using TV feed hooked to a video camera (this was the early 90s, before cell phones kids). But we had a EE who set up a lag time in the video circuit, to simulate the time delay between commanding the rover and having it actually move. It was a fun little deal, people really enjoyed it.
Just watched national TV news & they spent 10 minutes on Cruz in Cancun & at the end of the program they mentioned the landing for 30 seconds. Our mainstream “News” media is all about politics, sadly.
Could anyone provide information on how they plan to do this? If there’s a video out there, that’s be great!
It has a drill that will collect samples and put in things that look like pipe bomb casings and then lay them on the surface. In 7-10 years when the recovery ship goes (hasn't started being built yet), it'll pick them up and return to Earth.
At some point down the line when the rover is pretty much done and the planets are in close alignment NASA will launch a craft with the ability to remotely dock in Mars orbit with the sample probe that will launch from the surface of the rover on Mars. Eight months later? Boom. Mars dirt on Ert.
On tonight's show I thought heard the 10 rotors for the rover's wheels were $1 million each. Did I hear that right?
Agree. NASA budget is $23B this year.
I know people get worked up about that price tag, but there's $10B just in EITC fraud every year. You could have another half-a-NASA just on preventing that theft. Imagine if a bank/business had losses like that due to fraud lol.
More detail is available here:
Mars Sample Return - NASA Science
Mars Sample Return would be NASA’s most ambitious, multi-mission campaign that would bring carefully selected Martian samples to Earth for the first time.
mars.nasa.gov
If they had Amazon Prime they would get it in about 24 hours
More detail is available here:
Mars Sample Return - NASA Science
Mars Sample Return would be NASA’s most ambitious, multi-mission campaign that would bring carefully selected Martian samples to Earth for the first time.
Thanks. I was curious how they would get the samples off of the planet, but it looks like the idea is to have some kind of rocket launch off Mars.
True, but if they want free shipping it is two days.
Here is an updated synopsis.More detail is available here:
Mars Sample Return - NASA Science
Mars Sample Return would be NASA’s most ambitious, multi-mission campaign that would bring carefully selected Martian samples to Earth for the first time.
How NASA's Perseverance rover will send Martian rocks back to Earth for the first time ever
Never before have humans brought a piece of another planet back to Earth. "If it sounds complicated, it is," a top NASA scientist said. "If it sounds extreme, it most certainly is."
www.cbsnews.com
