Mars Rover: Perseverance - #Mars2020

[theSEMAR]

Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA's Mars Exploration Program that includes the Perseverance rover with a planned launch on 17 July 2020, and touch down in Jezero crater on Mars on 18 February 2021. Wiki

Official site:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
Official accounts:
https://facebook.com/NASAPersevere
https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere

Interesting if we can follow the progress or events that will occur.

Myself will make time to follow that progress. How about you? Will you also make time to do that?

[anonemoose]

I was on-site at JPL in July 1976 for the first lander in case any problems with the picture processor computers. Have followed every lander since.

[theSEMAR]

This is not the latest news, but did you know that Perseverance Mars Rover have special message written in Morse code by stylize the Sun’s rays picture?

[theSEMAR]

The rover was launched on 30 July 2020, at 7:50 a.m. EDT (11:50 UTC), and is expected to land on Mars on 18 February 2021.

[theSEMAR]

21 minutes remaining...

[dueda]

We explore new worlds while we destroy this. What for? In the Lost in Space new series, there's a scene I quote:

- You were to Alpha Centauri, how's it there?
- Problem is people travel that far to build a new world and do things different but no, they bring all their shit with them, human beings.

Or something like that, I don't remember the exact wording.

[deadplant]

The HD pictures from the perseverance are incredible. They blew my mind.

   

   

   

This next one is actually taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

   

Is there a spoiler feature? I didn't want to post the pictures in full resolution without spoilers.

[maskaw]

All the efforts and money printed to explore space leave me cold.

We explore new worlds while we destroy this. What for?

The answer is in this thread

The HD pictures from the perseverance are incredible. They blew my mind.

Entertainment at first sight. I know in the end it's monetization.

I don't judge anyone. Between space traveling and planting trees however, I personally find the latter one more important.

[Moe]

All the efforts and money printed to explore space leave me cold.

We explore new worlds while we destroy this. What for?

The answer is in this thread

The HD pictures from the perseverance are incredible. They blew my mind.

Entertainment at first sight. I know in the end it's monetization.

I don't judge anyone. Between space traveling and planting trees however, I personally find the latter one more important.

That's some cynical bullshit dude.

There is a lot to be learned from Mars. The advancements made just to get there alone are immeasurable.

Musk is off his rocker thinking we are going to colonize the place. It isn't going to be a new home. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't explore it.

There's plenty of room for both planting trees and exploring space.

[maskaw]

There is a lot to be learned from Mars.

What is to be learned? That humans are capable of engineering complex devices to explore beyond their native planet? That has been a known fact since '69 and I don't argue it.

There's plenty of room for both planting trees and exploring space.

I don't argue that either. However if I had SpaceX's market cap I'd go with the trees first, then mars exploration/colonization.