Mars Photos (Will update as the newest ones come in)

[DigitalFudge]

The first receipts of alien life:

Someone get NASA on the phone! Then call 911 cuz I'm

 

[DigitalFudge]

Oh my gosh! I didn't realize you could pan the camera down and actually look at the rover.


This just keeps getting better.



Oh and I am the only one who wants to see what a star lit night sky looks like on another planet?

 

[Kulindahr]

First HD fully colored Panorama shot of Mars




I have no words for this


MARS Greeley Haven 360 Panorama

Looks a lot like west Texas.

 

[DigitalFudge]

^^ Makes sense.



Aren't we supposed to be there because of all the similarities to Earth? Fucked up that the closest thing to Earth in our solar system is a Texas 2.0

 

[Kulindahr]

To the morons who aren't sure if we went to the moon:

high school science classes (yes, HS!) have done the experiment of bouncing a laser off the reflectors left by the astronauts. there's no way it's accidental that the spots on the moon where the astronauts say they left the reflectors just happen to have the same optical characteristics as the items manufactured for the trip.

all the videos of the surface activity on the moon have been examined by experts and the conclusion has always been that there's no way that footage could have been done on earth -- the state of special effects at the time was far too primitive

for a good telescope, the US flags left on the moon can be seen still standing (except the one the astronaut said wasn't going to hold up under the ascent vehicle exhaust)


No more needed.


On this trip, we know the vehicle went to Mars. The transmissions can be received by anyone on earth with the right equipment, so we know there's something on Mars transmitting, and that in the same parameters as designed for the rover. This is a situation where anyone in the world with the right equipment can tune in a verify. Are you seriously proposing a conspiracy involving millions of people?

Only the clueless need answer.

 

[Kulindahr]

^^ Makes sense.



Aren't we supposed to be there because of all the similarities to Earth? Fucked up that the closest thing to Earth in our solar system is a Texas 2.0

WEST Texas 2.0: no one lives there, and its only importance is if someone goes to take pictures.

If Mars were like east Texas, I'd be selling everything for a ticket.

 

[refujiunderground]

To the morons who aren't sure if we went to the moon:

high school science classes (yes, HS!) have done the experiment of bouncing a laser off the reflectors left by the astronauts. there's no way it's accidental that the spots on the moon where the astronauts say they left the reflectors just happen to have the same optical characteristics as the items manufactured for the trip.

all the videos of the surface activity on the moon have been examined by experts and the conclusion has always been that there's no way that footage could have been done on earth -- the state of special effects at the time was far too primitive

for a good telescope, the US flags left on the moon can be seen still standing (except the one the astronaut said wasn't going to hold up under the ascent vehicle exhaust)


No more needed.


On this trip, we know the vehicle went to Mars. The transmissions can be received by anyone on earth with the right equipment, so we know there's something on Mars transmitting, and that in the same parameters as designed for the rover. This is a situation where anyone in the world with the right equipment can tune in a verify. Are you seriously proposing a conspiracy involving millions of people?

Only the clueless need answer.

you can say whatever you want but i don't believe it. don't make me feel bad because i don't agree with what you believe in.

 

[anchihiro]

Since we have technology on mars i wonder how long it will be until a person steps foot there too.

 

[DigitalFudge]

you can say whatever you want but i don't believe it. don't make me feel bad because i don't agree with what you believe in.

What you are "sure of" is irrelevant. Coming from the guy who discredits science because he disagrees with it makes that only more clear.

^^^ Told ya'll

Since we have technology on mars i wonder how long it will be until a person steps foot there too.

To be fair the Russians had a rover on Venus in the fucking 60s (Late 60s I believe)

Also, to be fair, it melted so the idea of ever sending a person there was out of the question.


We have more than enough tech to survive on Mars (As long as the radiation levels are controlled) for a specific amount of time.

The problem is getting there and coming back for a 20-30 year old before they turn 80.


Gotta work on those engines.

 

[Axxess]

Just for laughs, I googled "Mars Landing Hoax". I found exactly what I thought I would.

I don't really understand the point of this exercise. Why are we spending billions of dollars to send a robot to Mars to take pictures? I mean, yeah, they're pretty pictures, but wouldn't that money be better spent on other things? I guess I just don't "get" it.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

My partner and i were discussing this last night - It's strange how we managed to go into ACTUAL OUTER SPACE in 1969, and we didnt invent the internet, HD or flat screen tvs until 15 years ago

It just goes to show that given enough thrust, one can see stars.

 

[Kulindahr]

you can say whatever you want but i don't believe it. don't make me feel bad because i don't agree with what you believe in.

Then you are deliberately ignorant, choosing to be a fool.

I don't "believe in it", I know these things to be true. They are more verifiable than you being a human being.

 

[Kulindahr]

Since we have technology on mars i wonder how long it will be until a person steps foot there too.

We have a long way to go for that. First it needs to be demonstrated that robots can go build a base for humans before we get there.

 

[Kulindahr]

^^^ Told ya'll








To be fair the Russians had a rover on Venus in the fucking 60s (Late 60s I believe)

Also, to be fair, it melted so the idea of ever sending a person there was out of the question.


We have more than enough tech to survive on Mars (As long as the radiation levels are controlled) for a specific amount of time.

The problem is getting there and coming back for a 20-30 year old before they turn 80.


Gotta work on those engines.

Radiation and wind -- two big reasons that the way to go is to send robots first a build a base. Actually, that would be more "dig a base", because the easiest way to shield against radiation is to pile lots of dirt. Methods have been devised to make simple bricks from Mars dirt, so the program would be robots to dig a big hole (maybe a slot through a hill), robots to make bricks, and robots to stack the bricks following a blueprint (all doable... but on Mars?), and then to cover it with all the excavated material. Finally, robots would apply sealant from the inside to make it air-tight, and install the basics for survival.

 

[Kulindahr]

Just for laughs, I googled "Mars Landing Hoax". I found exactly what I thought I would.

I don't really understand the point of this exercise. Why are we spending billions of dollars to send a robot to Mars to take pictures? I mean, yeah, they're pretty pictures, but wouldn't that money be better spent on other things? I guess I just don't "get" it.

Merely on the basis of entertainment value, it's an incredibly good deal.

On top of that, it points people at the future -- always a good thing.

 

[ChickenGuy]

To be fair the Russians had a rover on Venus in the fucking 60s (Late 60s I believe)

Also, to be fair, it melted so the idea of ever sending a person there was out of the question.

I REALLY wish NASA would send another probe to Venus! It's our nearest neighbour, more than twice as close as Mars, yet NASA completely ignores it. I simply don't understand.

Just because there's no likelihood of finding life there does not mean the place isn't interesting. But there is the added problem that the 400+degrees temperature and pressure and acidic corrosive atmosphere will fry any probe within minutes.

I recently looked up about the Russian missions - they sent several Venera probes there, including the first probe to enter the atmosphere of another planet and take data readings (but no pics) in 1967. See how much can be achieved so quickly if you set your mind to it? The first pics of the surface of another planet came from Venus from two Russian Venera probes in 1975.

To my knowledge the ONLY colour pics of the surface of Venus were taken by two Russian Venera probes in 1982.

These probes lasted just about ONE OR TWO HOURS before they were crushed/corroded/melted by the planet.

The Soviets are STILL the only ones to have landed spacecraft on Venus.

Soviet Venus Images

 

[Axxess]

I REALLY wish NASA would send another probe to Venus! It's our nearest neighbour, more than twice as close as Mars, yet NASA completely ignores it. I simply don't understand.

These probes lasted just about ONE OR TWO HOURS before they were crushed/corroded/melted by the planet.

Didn't you just answer you own question?

 

[Kulindahr]

Didn't you just answer you own question?

LOL

Yes, he did. The exteriors would have to be ceramics, and they'd need a laser heat pump cooling system or something equally radical.

We'd be better off latching onto a BIG ice comet and slamming it into Venus, cooling the planet through the ice, raising dust, and causing rain to clear the skies. But to keep the skies clear, we might need an engineered bacterium to seed the place with, one that would bind sulfur so it doesn't get back to the atmosphere.

Yeah, tackling Venus is going to take a while.

 

[Kabluey]

Wow - thanks for sending through the links. Wish there was some way to tell how big everything is in the photo - are those rocks, or pebbles I see?

 

[JayHawk]

I dunno what the big deal is.... ABC got a news team there to scoop the landing......