Mars Rover Perseverance Landing... and continuing...

[Umbran]

Yep. The attempt to fly at 9:30 AM EDT tomorrow!

Edit: Friend who told me that time now very contrite, as apparently they cannot tell AM from PM, and cannot remember which way to modify for time zones.

I wasn't going to be up at 3:30 AM anyway, but still disappointing.

 

[Umbran]

Here's some video from Perseverance.

 

[Umbran]

I renamed the thread to capture that this isn't about the landing any more.

 

[trappedslider]

so, you have 10 mins of air, what do you say? NASA's Perseverance rover turns a tiny bit of Mars air into breathable oxygen

 

[Umbran]

And now, a 50 meter flight!

 

[Azuresun]

so, you have 10 mins of air, what do you say? NASA's Perseverance rover turns a tiny bit of Mars air into breathable oxygen

Well, what a lot of social media says is "Why are we making oxygen on Mars when India needs it more?" Along with the familiar breast-beating about how we're "polluting" and "ruining" the freezing, choking, irradiated wasteland.

....social media has some really stupid content on it, if you didn't already know.

 

[Orius]

What morons. Any serious attempt to colonize Mars is going to need some kind of oxygen producing tech -- it would be far too costly to send all of what's needed on a spacecraft. This, like the drone, was an experiment to test tech that could be very useful in future Mars exploration.