The Martian Helicopter Flight

I've been watching for that and was glad to see it finally happen. I watch every SpaceX launch and return. I'm really anxious to see what role their Starship will perform once it's ready for use. Elon Musk seems to be in a hurry to send people to Mars, but I think life support for that environment is still a long way off.
 
digifoss said:
I've been watching for that and was glad to see it finally happen. I watch every SpaceX launch and return. I'm really anxious to see what role their Starship will perform once it's ready for use. Elon Musk seems to be in a hurry to send people to Mars, but I think life support for that environment is still a long way off.
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Yeah, you don't just drop people off on a distant planet and say "procreate". :ROFLMAO:
 

digifoss said:
I've been watching for that and was glad to see it finally happen. I watch every SpaceX launch and return. I'm really anxious to see what role their Starship will perform once it's ready for use. Elon Musk seems to be in a hurry to send people to Mars, but I think life support for that environment is still a long way off.
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You mean that Martian nuclear reactor that melts the ice core and releases oxygen isn't working? I saw it in Total Recall.
 
Starship has a capacity of about 100 passengers plus crew for ferrying people back and forth to the moon and Mars. It's expected to be certified for use in 2023. Elon Musk is smarter than me but it sure seems like he's building the cart before he has a horse or something like that. :) I like Total Recall too, and all the Star Trek series and movies.
 
WhatInThe said:
Why don't they fly that and a camera over the face. Inquiring minds want to know if it's real/
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The drone has a recorder camera in its belly. Takes a while for images to get to NASA so I'm not sure it's taken any footage yet. But it sent black and white still photos of its shadow on the surface after it finally lifted off.
 
This seemed like a good landing spot for this story
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Perseverance rover just made oxygen on Mars
Updated 8:04 AM ET, Thu April 22, 2021
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I find all of this fascinating and love reading about it, so many things have been done on Mars the past 20 years. Knowing that Mars was once a water rich planet with oceans and rivers of running water I wonder if it also had much O2 present in the atmosphere before most of it's atmosphere was lost. Knowing too that neither Mars nor Venus has a magnetosphere like Earth has, how much of a role might that have played in those two worlds being inhospitable to life like they are today.
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(CNN)The Perseverance rover may be parked at an overlook to capture any flights by the Ingenuity helicopter over the next two weeks, but it's not wasting any of its time on Mars.

The rover on Tuesday successfully converted some of the plentiful carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen as a first test of its MOXIE instrument. The name MOXIE is short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment.
After warming up for about two hours, MOXIE produced 5.4 grams of oxygen. This is enough to sustain an astronaut for about 10 minutes.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/world/mars-rover-oxygen-moxie-scn/index.html
 
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To me space exploration will take leaps and bounds once we solve things like energy, gravity and even time. Every second we get smarter and smarter in the world of science. Just now the Chinese are claiming they can detect stealth technology with their new radar. We are in the Wright Brothers era now compared to what lies ahead. The future can be beautiful if we make it beautiful.
 
fmdog44 said:
To me space exploration will take leaps and bounds once we solve things like energy, gravity and even time. Every second we get smarter and smarter in the world of science. Just now the Chinese are claiming they can detect stealth technology with their new radar. We are in the Wright Brothers era now compared to what lies ahead. The future can be beautiful if we make it beautiful.
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I have to agree with fmdog44. What we, now, think of as cutting edge science, is what future historians may call, "first attempts".
 
Did anyone notice when that capsule Undocked from ISS that
an unknown object flew by the BACK of the capsule, and then as it pulled away from the iss an object flew between the capsule and ISS ??? Close call I would say.....:confused:
 
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