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<blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 8205773" data-attributes="member: 6801286"><p>This sort of incredible short sightedness is baffling and frustrating. Some of the greatest scientiffic accomplishments came from unexpected places. If we stopped every time someone said "What is the point?", we'd never learn anything.</p><p></p><p>This mission and the ones to follow, can lead to groundbreaking new technology that could severely impact all our lives for decades to come.</p><p></p><p>Landing on Mars is very difficult. NASA is the only organisation able to do it consistently, which is an incredible feat of engineering. Most of the Russian and Chinese missions to Mars have been failures. But NASA has now managed to land a rover on Mars several times, and twice using an ai driven skycrane system. That technology alone is a scientiffic breakthrough. Ai driven aircrafts are the future.</p><p></p><p>This mission will do something that none other has done before; to collect samples on Mars, and with a follow up mission (with the aid of ESA) return them to earth. We can do a lot more research in our labs on earth if we can retrieve those samples.</p><p></p><p>Also, do not underestimate the importance of the first sound recording on Mars. This is history in the making. You may be easily fooled into thinking it is but a boring recording of a minor windgust, but it is so much more. Being able to hear during space missions may change how we do space missions from now on. All future rovers may be equiped with a microphone now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Imaculata, post: 8205773, member: 6801286"] This sort of incredible short sightedness is baffling and frustrating. Some of the greatest scientiffic accomplishments came from unexpected places. If we stopped every time someone said "What is the point?", we'd never learn anything. This mission and the ones to follow, can lead to groundbreaking new technology that could severely impact all our lives for decades to come. Landing on Mars is very difficult. NASA is the only organisation able to do it consistently, which is an incredible feat of engineering. Most of the Russian and Chinese missions to Mars have been failures. But NASA has now managed to land a rover on Mars several times, and twice using an ai driven skycrane system. That technology alone is a scientiffic breakthrough. Ai driven aircrafts are the future. This mission will do something that none other has done before; to collect samples on Mars, and with a follow up mission (with the aid of ESA) return them to earth. We can do a lot more research in our labs on earth if we can retrieve those samples. Also, do not underestimate the importance of the first sound recording on Mars. This is history in the making. You may be easily fooled into thinking it is but a boring recording of a minor windgust, but it is so much more. Being able to hear during space missions may change how we do space missions from now on. All future rovers may be equiped with a microphone now. [/QUOTE]
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