Phoenix Mars Lander

Amazing, I am always astounded when these things work considering all the calculations involved and the intracies of the design.

Haven't there been a few unsuccessful landings recently? Glad to know this one is doing great. Looking for water in one of the polar regions, I think.

You know, I can just see a group of Martians standing around the craft. One turns to the other and says (in Martian) "I don't remember seeing a moving van".
 
LOL!

Yeah go for it NASA! Good going dudes!

Dan, There have been an astounding number of failures. Quite bizarre actually just HOW many have failed.

But this is astounding. The way it landed, slowing from thousands of MPH down to 5mph!!! then the solar panels opened successfully...Weird to think that as we talk, there is a human built robot on the Martian surface...Incredible when you think about it.
 
<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>Mayfield669 wrote:

Amazing, I am always astounded when these things work considering all the calculations involved and the intracies of the design.

Haven't there been a few unsuccessful landings recently? Glad to know this one is doing great. Looking for water in one of the polar regions, I think.

You know, I can just see a group of Martians standing around the craft. One turns to the other and says (in Martian) "I don't remember seeing a moving van".<center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>


That reminds me of one extremely funny Hewlett Packard commercial:


Good idea! :)
 
LOL. The sounds those Martians make remind me of the Budweiser ferret.

It seems like there were a lot of failures - not just US but others as well. For a while it was like someone on Mars was just sabotaging landers. What was that Bradbury book, the Martian Chronicles? where the Martians were not very friendly and fairly sneaky about dispatching people. Read it a long time ago so may not be right.
 
SFA yeah Russians, Europeans, loads went missing. I saw a mini-documentary on You Tube and can't find the darn thing.

 
<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>Mayfield669 wrote:

LOL. The sounds those Martians make remind me of the Budweiser ferret.

It seems like there were a lot of failures - not just US but others as well. For a while it was like someone on Mars was just sabotaging landers. What was that Bradbury book, the Martian Chronicles? where the Martians were not very friendly and fairly sneaky about dispatching people. Read it a long time ago so may not be right. <center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>

Yes, they've been talking about sabotage in the newspapers already.

 
An astounding accomplishment! I would give anything to work at JPL. There were many missions to Mars that failed, many of them happened to the Russians, so it's amazing that it went flawless. It's fantastic to see brilliant minds in work. Just think about it for a while, we've landed on Mars...my god!

Again, congrats to all on this amazing mission.
 
Indeed a great achievement. Somehow I think it's not fair that all those planet exploring missions (the space program in general) doesn't get the credit it deserves like it used to get in the 60's and 70's.

I mean we are obviously causing so much trouble and pain on earth that we don't even think about interplanetary travels and so on. In the future this might become the mot important topic on mankind's agenda.
 
The recent failures really put the lunar landings in perspective - after all, the computers we have in our homes now are vastly more powerful than what NASA had in 1969.

It seems like space exploration has been stuck in a holding pattern, doesn't it?

 
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