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    612 KB Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:05 No.4064489  
    This bad boy is off to Mars tomorrow.

    It's a rover the size of a small car that can shoot lasers at rocks.

    http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

    http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/videos/index.cfm?v=2&a=2

    High Definition:
    http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/videos/movies/msl20110810_Curiosity_Trailer/msl201108
    10_Curiosity_Trailer-1280.mov

    In related Mars news, the Russian Phobos Grunt probe that is stuck in earth orbit finally made contact with earth. Unfortunately it looks like its in a decay orbit and will crash to earth in January.
    http://www.russianspaceweb.com/phobos_grunt_launch.html


    Lets hope NASA does a better job than Roscosmos.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:11 No.4064502
    Sexy.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:15 No.4064511
    I wish my job was to make robots that went to Mars and shot rocks with lasers.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:16 No.4064515
    I wonder if we still had the shuttle available if we could go up there and rescue Phobos-Grunt.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:29 No.4064556
    >>4064515
    It's easier and cheaper to send a human crew into LEO with a Soyuz craft, which we still have and which work perfectly fine. There's a reason the space shuttle was discontinued; It's old, and it's much cheaper to use single-launch craft such as the Soyuz, for now at least.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:34 No.4064567
    >>4064556
    I don't think capsules can retrieve spacecraft and bring them back to the Earth. I suppose that they might be able to bring it to the ISS.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:44 No.4064602
    >>4064511
    > I wish my job was to make robots that went to Mars and shot rocks with lasers.

    How far you've fallen. Why aren't you wishing your job was to GO TO MARS and to SHOOT ROCKS WITH LASERS, among other tasks?
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:52 No.4064621
    why lasers?

    why mars, again?

    why not europa?
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:57 No.4064638
    >>4064621
    >why not europa?
    "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE."
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:59 No.4064643
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    >>4064621

    Because Mars is our next stop as a species, and Europa missions are even more complex thus more expensive.

    At least on Mars our robots don't have to drill a few kilometers before finding anything interesting.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:59 No.4064646
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    >>4064638
    why?
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)22:59 No.4064647
    And we still have the Opportunity Rover running around Mars gathering and collecting information for almost eight years now.

    This will hopefully pay huge dividends for NASA.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)23:02 No.4064658
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    >>4064621

    >why lasers?

    So it can burn rocks from a distance. Easier than picking it up and crushing it with a mechanical arm just to figure out its composition.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)23:18 No.4064698
    i dont understand.

    what's the point of spending billions upon billions of dollars to fund experiments on fucking mars?

    we have a fucking planet we need to feed
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)23:19 No.4064699
    >>4064621

    >why lasers?

    What are you, gay?
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)23:20 No.4064702
    >>4064698
    There will always be problems.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)23:21 No.4064709
    >>4064698

    We will always have a planet to feed. If we try to fix the world's problem before raping the Universe we will never rape the Universe.
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)23:21 No.4064710
    >>4064698
    >we have a fucking planet we need to feed

    If you really believed that why aren't you doing something to help instead of shitposting on 4chan?
    >> Anonymous 11/24/11(Thu)23:33 No.4064764
    >>4064698
    > we have americans we need to make obese
    ftfy
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)00:08 No.4064854
    sweet rims
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)01:18 No.4065016
    >>4064621
    >why lasers?
    For analysis.
    >why mars, again?
    >why not europa?
    Because it's easier to send probes to the nearby Mars than it is to get them to the far-off Europa.
    Also, it's easier to get them to the Martian surface than it is to get them through kilometers of supercold ice.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)02:54 No.4065221
    >>4064699
    Homosexual here. This "person" is not with us.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)02:56 No.4065227
    >>4065016
    This. FFS, it's a car sized robot. How would it drill kilometres through ice we don't know the consistency of, then report back information?
    >> Lunatic !!IE/X7lbCDOY 11/25/11(Fri)03:12 No.4065244
    >>4064567
    >>4064556
    >>4064515
    So you want to send people to an out of control spacecraft chock full of hydrazine in a decay orbit and do in orbit repairs?

    For reference, repairing the hubble was an incredibly dangerous mission and the hubble didn't have a single explosive bolt on it.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)03:17 No.4065247
    >>4065244
    Or bring it back for repairs.
    >> Lunatic !!IE/X7lbCDOY 11/25/11(Fri)03:19 No.4065249
    >>4065227
    >>drill through km of ice
    Simple, with a nuclear powered cryobot. Which is just a rod with a metal cone on one end heated by radioisotopes that melts its way through the ice.

    Getting information through the ice is the hard part. That being said, it looks like they've found water closer to the surface.
    >> Lunatic !!IE/X7lbCDOY 11/25/11(Fri)03:23 No.4065253
    >>4065247
    You want to retrieve what is essentially a live bomb from a decay orbit?

    Even getting near that sucker is going to be difficult.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)10:18 No.4065910
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    Flight was postponed till tomorrow due to weather I think.

    Here is a pre launch briefing if anyone is interested.

    http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/timeline/launch/watchonline/
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)10:23 No.4065926
    >>4065910


    Shit never mind. I am watching the pre launch briefing and it turns out that the reason the flight was pushed to the 26th is because one of the rover batteries was almost dead.

    They installed a new one.

    Good catch by NASA
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)10:53 No.4066005
    >>4065244
    wasn't hubble the one where the engineer tore his glove?
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)11:00 No.4066018
    >>4064643
    Send a mothership-sized spacecraft. Shoot or bomb a gigantic crater into it's exterior. Fly space submarines into Europa. Discover what may be in there. Great success!

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