Mars Rover landing today

[caribbean20]

For the space geeks, don’t forget to tune in for the landing today at 3:55 pm EST. Hopefully it lands in 1 piece.

 

[Taboma]

Watch Online: TV Schedule - NASA

TV schedule, upcoming program information about NASA's Mars Perseverance rover.

mars.nasa.gov

 

[Waterjunky]

Watched something on this last night. Was a bit of a history of the rovers on Mars with a heavy focus of the new one. interesting point on this, this one is nuclear. This makes sense as the others were solar and were very hit and miss with winter and dust storms. That said they were amazing pieces of hardware that were only expected to survive something like 90 days. They lived for over a decade......

 

[SixD9R]

USA USA USA!

I sure hope the current occupant of the white house doesn’t kill the amazing stuff we are doing in space in favor of more socialism.

 

[Crazyhippy]

My MUCH better half works @ JPL. I get to sit around and drink beers with several of the people involved with the Mars2020 mission... none of them slept last night.

Here are a few pics of Perseverance being assembled. Nothing secretive, all were taken from the semi public observation windows.

Here they are installing the wheels

And a picture of the sky crane (towards the right side of image)

Fingers crossed, and I will be watching!

 

[caribbean20]

My MUCH better half works @ JPL. I get to sit around and drink beers with several of the people involved with the Mars2020 mission... none of them slept last night.

Here are a few pics of Perseverance being assembled. Nothing secretive, all were taken from the semi public observation windows.

Here they are installing the wheels View attachment 974023

And a picture of the sky crane (towards the right side of image) View attachment 974024

Fingers crossed, and I will be watching!

I figured someone on this forum would have a connection to JPL. Congrats, sounds like you married up, like a lot of us.

 

[The Prisoner]

Coverage just started. Nasa channel

 

[Halvecto]

It blows my mind that a spacecraft can travel seven months to get to a far-away planet and will be under controlled observation and then have smaller crafts and machines controlled by a station here on earth after it lands. Amazing. I have to believe the competition of private outfits like Space-X and Blue Origin are good for space travel and research. Although NASA has always relied on private companies like JPL, the accountability and challenge is now real.

I can't seem to seem to keep from dropping cell phone calls on the 405 & 210 and yet we can sit here and watch a live video of a lunar landing nearly 40 million miles away. Go USA!!

 

[The Prisoner]

The rover is supposed to record sound and launch a helicopter. A first for another planet

 

[HCP3]

Are they going to land the thing, or just talk about it?!

 

[RogerThat99]

I'm watching live now. I minute to atmospheric entry.

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[RogerThat99]

Just touched down.

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[707dog]

pretty cool alot of young minds sitting around that control room

 

[C-2]

That was awesome!

 

[Kbach]

So amazing. Pics from the landing site already too..from 127 million miles away. Unbelievable!!

 

[MSum661]

So amazing. Pics from the landing site already too..from 127 million miles away. Unbelievable!!

Its truly amazing.

 

[LuckyStrike]

I’ve seen the moon landing and just witnessed the greatest thing I’ve seen
And I’ve been to two launch’s at the cape
Went last summer and wholly shit between space x and orical large construction
Very a Proud to be an American today
Biden the Douche Bag will claim he had everything to do with this
We All Know that’s FUp


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[ChevelleSB406]

My MUCH better half works @ JPL. I get to sit around and drink beers with several of the people involved with the Mars2020 mission... none of them slept last night.

Here are a few pics of Perseverance being assembled. Nothing secretive, all were taken from the semi public observation windows.

Here they are installing the wheels View attachment 974023

And a picture of the sky crane (towards the right side of image) View attachment 974024

Fingers crossed, and I will be watching!

A friend of mine works there and I have serious job envy, she seems to have joined right after college and progressed in career and further education with their support. It is truly amazing what is possible with science and engineering.

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

My MUCH better half works @ JPL. I get to sit around and drink beers with several of the people involved with the Mars2020 mission... none of them slept last night.

Here are a few pics of Perseverance being assembled. Nothing secretive, all were taken from the semi public observation windows.

Here they are installing the wheels View attachment 974023

And a picture of the sky crane (towards the right side of image) View attachment 974024

Fingers crossed, and I will be watching!

That clean room is so bad ass. I used to be up at JPL 2X to 4X month at my old job, That is one customer I do miss.

 

[Javajoe]

Only takes 11 minutes to communicate with it. Pretty crazy

 

[Crazyhippy]

1st pic back...

 

[boat 569]

I worked on this rocket. So cool to see them successfully land the rover. The NASA missions are always more exciting to launch than the military or NRO launches

 

[Taboma]

I think watching that broadcast live was thrilling, truly an emotional moment I've been needing.
Wasn't just what they were able to accomplish, but they fucking did wearing not one, but most, two masks .

Let's all give a big hearty NASA fist bump, Masks are indeed Rocket Science

 

[2Driver]

Real question, $2,500,000,000 whats the value prop?

Please don't give me the subjective answer, whats the quantifiable benefit?

 

[Javajoe]

Pretty cool and I love it but a huge waste of money IMHO

 

[Water Romper]

The technology is just over the top. Absolutely amazing. Apparently, among a ton of other agendas , a few of the key things NASA wants to look at is LIFE on Mars and if we can put a human there. Wow, the Moon landing was amazing enough but Mars?? I was listening to an interview from someone on the "team" and apparently they (NASA folks) are wondering what kind of life they may find...pretty friggin awesome.

 

[Crazyhippy]

How much of the budget do you folks feel NASA get? 2%? 1%?

It is under 0.5% of the US budget, and a hell of a lot of that goes to Earth based studies (map everything, so they can tell how much things moved in an earthquake. Measure ocean salinity and temp to help predict weather. Things of that nature). Not sure there should be a cap on useful science.

Mars2020 is a scientific mission. They are searching for evidence of life somewhere other than earth... which will be an EPIC find. If life can exist elsewhere, then Earth isn't the only place with life... and the BILLIONS of stars out there will most likely support some life. That theory being proven is HUGE!

Beyond that, Perseverance is the first rover designed to start sample returns to earth. It is packaging things to return with another mission. If we find some uber rare mineral, this could be the groundwork for mining elsewhere in the solar system.

Lastly, it shows US dominance. Yes China can get a small lander there... but our is WAY bigger and cooler.

 

[Spudsbud]

This will enhance A.I. developement 10 fold.!
The Autonomous technology will be going.crazy !

 

[Ziggy]

Real question, $2,500,000,000 whats the value prop?

Please don't give me the subjective answer, whats the quantifiable benefit?

To save humanity.
Find out if humans can live there. We need a place to run to when we fuck up our own planet.

 

[2Driver]

Cool,
Id do it a lot simpler and send 1 billion specially selected earthlings there and if they survived then Id look into it further.

 

[Crazyhippy]

Gotta love the epic nerd flex... the last rover had JPL in Morse code on the wheels... this one had this

Dare mighty things is a JPL moto, and the coordinates around the outside are JPL's location.