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NASA's Perseverance Rover due to land on Mars tonight

Stig
Stig Posts: 29,026
edited February 2021 in Not Sports Related
Currently travelling at a mind boggling 47,463mph, Perseverance is due to land on Mars just in time for the 9 O'clock News.  https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    Stig said:
    Currently travelling at a mind boggling 47,463mph, Perseverance is due to land on the moon just in time for the 9 O'clock News.  https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
    The moon & Mars in one night? 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Doh fuck!
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    Stig said:
    Currently travelling at a mind boggling 47,463mph, Perseverance is due to land on Mars just in time for the 9 O'clock News.  https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
    Is Huw Edwards on board ?
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    They aimed for Mars and hit the Moon!
    Bit like me and the toilet bowl.

    Love this stuff.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    "Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the Mars".

    (slight misquote there!)
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    Can't wait to see the first images of the surface.

    Having a glimpse of another world has some kind of unbeatable mystery about it, IMHO.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    bigstemarra said:
    Can't wait to see the first images of the surface.

    Having a glimpse of another world has some kind of unbeatable mystery about it, IMHO.
    Yes, always - I agree. 

    This one has a great chance of discovering any evidence of previous life.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    cafcledbury said:
    They will probably find the ball from Nicky Bailey’s penalty. 
    Mars is way too close for that to happen.
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  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,127
    Stig said:
    Currently travelling at a mind boggling 47,463mph, Perseverance is due to land on Mars just in time for the 9 O'clock News.  https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
    This is nearly twice the record speed set for human space flight, 24,791mph by Apollo 10 in May 1969. 
    Yikes and yikes....
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    Perseverance Rover to Mission Control.
    Data download commencing. Objects identified:
    1. Man wearing Manchester United shirt
    2. Public House. Beer pumps indicate Doom Bar 
    3. Chicken U Like takeaway box
    Correction: Doom Bar and four American IPAs 
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Quicker ETA than the Larkfield coach to Watford.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Huskaris said:
    Stig said:
    Currently travelling at a mind boggling 47,463mph, Perseverance is due to land on Mars just in time for the 9 O'clock News.  https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
    Tailgated all the way there by a BMW driver flashing his headlights. 
    No I wasn’t.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Anna_Kissed said:
    Perseverance Rover to Mission Control.
    Data download commencing. Objects identified:
    1. Man wearing Manchester United shirt
    2. Public House. Beer pumps indicate Doom Bar 
    3. Chicken U Like takeaway box
    Correction: Doom Bar and four American IPAs 
    Got to be a few discarded Covid masks swirling about, surely?
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,185
    Will watch on the NASA live feed, can't wait.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    Stig said:
    Doh fuck!
    I wasn’t taking the piss, I genuinely thought you were saying it was hitting both in one night. Bit underwhelmed now!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    edited February 2021
    Fumbluff said:
    Stig said:
    Currently travelling at a mind boggling 47,463mph, Perseverance is due to land on Mars just in time for the 9 O'clock News.  https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
    This is nearly twice the record speed set for human space flight, 24,791mph by Apollo 10 in May 1969. 
    Yikes and yikes....
    It's a amazing to think how fast that is. For the vast majority of us the quickest we'll ever travel is going on an airliner.  It is now two hours until touchdown.  If we were to take a flight now that two hours would get us from London to Budapest (or somewhere of equivalent distance). In that time, Perseverance will have done best part of 110,000 miles, that's over four laps of the Earth.
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    Stig said:
    Anna_Kissed said:
    Perseverance Rover to Mission Control.
    Data download commencing. Objects identified:
    1. Man wearing Manchester United shirt
    2. Public House. Beer pumps indicate Doom Bar 
    3. Chicken U Like takeaway box
    Correction: Doom Bar and four American IPAs 
    Got to be a few discarded Covid masks swirling about, surely?
    Ha! In my draft version, observation number 3 was 'Discarded facial covering'. I changed it to the discarded chicken box.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:
    Quicker ETA than the Larkfield coach to Watford.
    John from Larkfield left on a DJ coach in 9,453 BC to finally reach Mars away.  
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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Anyone one to watch live go on YouTube and look under News
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    2 mins till entry 


  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    AFKABartram said:
    2 mins till entry 


    There is never a place where that image is not appropriate!

  • Bournesnr
    Bournesnr Posts: 295
    I must be alone then in thinking it’s a complete waste of money that could be better spent doing good here on earth.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    Bournesnr said:
    I must be alone then in thinking it’s a complete waste of money that could be better spent doing good here on earth.
    Nah, opinions are like arseholes and all that!
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Bournesnr said:
    I must be alone then in thinking it’s a complete waste of money that could be better spent doing good here on earth.

    You will likely be in the minority. The fact that we can achieve this sort of thing is evidence of humanity's ability to do amazing things here on earth.

    Touchdown.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Incredible.
  • jacob_CAFC
    jacob_CAFC Posts: 2,063
    What an achievement. The fact that they can get these images and control the rover here on earth blows my mind. 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    Bournesnr said:
    I must be alone then in thinking it’s a complete waste of money that could be better spent doing good here on earth.
    I kind of get what you mean but it’s amazing that mankind have landed a car on Mars to investigate whether it once supported life and send pictures back to earth. 
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,866
    That was amazing and great to see

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