That panorama is amazing!
That panorama is amazing!
Since the footage released, I watched it like 5-6 times.
It's an incredible feat of engineering every step of the way, from the launch several months ago, to last week's landing.
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There was one guy during the live stream. Forget his position in JPL but he was pretty high up there. He was so clearly nervous the entire time. You could hear it in his voice. And it's perfectly understandable, this was a mission that could go wrong an infinite number of ways and there'd be nothing we could do on our end. I can't imagine how it felt to be one of the JPL engineers in that room on that day.
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Honestly, I already knew that it had worked while I was watching the footage, but I still felt nervous. I think had I been one of the guys waiting if all of their years of work were going to crash, I'd simply have suffered a heartattack. But NASA haven given mankind another giant leap and it may sound cheesy, but for me it's kind of a wonderful thing to know that even though down here on Earth we are going through some tough times.
This is a few days old, but I don't think it has been posted here yet - recorded sound from Mars.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...ng-first-audio
Only what sounds like a light breeze, but it's still quite something when you consider that it's sound from another planet.
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"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
How is wind supposed to sound if not windy?..
So, is there something special about robot #1488931 visiting mars? News seems awful quiet.
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
Don't feed him....
The mission is huge, along with what you pointed out, they are also sending out the first flying drone on Mars, which will cover a great deal more terrain. Perseverance is also prepping the next mission, to bring Mars rocks back to Earth, which may or may not be a good idea.
Seems like that short of a life-span is mostly going to be proof-of-concept type stuff. I'm sure NASA will double dip and do scientific missions at the same time. I can't wait to see what Ingenuity 2.0 is going to look like. Not criticizing at all here, in case it seems otherwise.
I thought we've been down there more than once - way back a few decades ago, and then most recently with James Cameron's expedition.
Regardless, my point is that we can, we just haven't, a lot.
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Makes sense.
I wonder if they are hoping to send something into the Valles Marineris - the Grand Canyon of Mars.
The Ingenuity helicopter has completed its first flight on Mars.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56799755
Amazing!
Ingenuity's shadow whilst in flight - https://twitter.com/NASAMars/status/...520456/photo/1
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Footage of the flight taken from Perseverance.
https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/st...09173924089863