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NASA Perseverance Rover heads to Mars -- Houston, we have a helicopter
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MaestroMike
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Gettin' close!
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
begin the 7 minutes
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
parachute is out!
Goro Majima
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Landing confirmed nice
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Nice
Great Hair
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MaestroMike
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Insane Metal
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Insane Metal
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Waste of bandwidth resources. Those colorful images will come with time. Right now it's more important to assess the situation of the environment around the rover rather than pretty pictures.
Aggelos
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ArtemisClydeFrog
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Bon Voyage Perseverance.
Aggelos
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On this episode of StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore NASA’s latest rover and its red planet mission with NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Wikipedia
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Aggelos
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Ya, sure. Project Breakthrough Starshot, but that's no easy feat. It's quite a daunting feat, even for the StarChip probes guided by light-sails.
From a human perspective it will take some time. The earliest timeframe the StarChip probes would reach the Alpha Centauri system is the 2050s.
"The project was announced on 12 April 2016 in an event held in New York City by physicist and venture capitalist Yuri Milner, together with cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who was serving as board member of the initiatives. Other board members include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The project has an initial funding of US$100 million to initialize research. Milner places the final mission cost at $5–10 billion, and estimates the first craft could launch by around 2036. Pete Worden is the project's executive director and Harvard Professor Avi Loeb chairs the advisory board for the project."
"A flyby mission has been proposed to Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone of its host star, Proxima Centauri, in the Alpha Centauri system. At a speed between 15% and 20% of the speed of light, it would take between twenty and thirty years to complete the journey, and approximately four years for a return message from the starship to Earth. "
Breakthrough Starshot - Wikipedia
Proxima Centauri b - Wikipedia
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I only have one bucket list item. Be alive when intelligent life is discovered out there somewhere. I'll even take a confirmed structure that would have to have been built by another species even if we don't get confirmation of the species itself.
But just finding microbial life on Mars would be cool.
But just finding microbial life on Mars would be cool.
FunkMiller
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Unless you're in your seventies, you should be good for the existence of microbial life, at least. It'll be around ten years when we start to get material back from Mars, and given all the indications present in existing data, the chances of something being found fossilised are pretty high. Intelligent life is never likely, given the size and scale of the universe.
FunkMiller
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Should be getting hi res images back next week, using the low bandwidth transfer.
Nitty_Grimes
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Can’t wait for those.
Nitty_Grimes
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High def pics of red sand? I’m sure there are some
www.nasa.gov
But I’m sure an expert will explain shortly.
Mars Science Laboratory: Curiosity Rover - NASA Science
Part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, at the time of launch, Curiosity was the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars at that time.
www.nasa.gov
But I’m sure an expert will explain shortly.
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Insane Metal
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The clarity and sharpness in this photo... damn!
Insane Metal
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Also, these rocks look very very different from anything Curiosity has seen so far... they look porous!
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
It's wild how we've come so far yet really haven't at all. In the grand scheme of the age of our planet it wasn't that long ago when humanity didn't even know planets were a thing. And fast forward to present day, we're landing on other planets. But only neighboring ones. So it's like we've come so far, but really can only land on our neighbors property. We haven't even left the "neighborhood" yet, let alone the "city."
ArtemisClydeFrog
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Fucking incredible
Insane Metal
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Holy shit that was ABSOLUTELY AWESOME
Holy fuck
Damn
I have no words. NASA are madmen.
SirKicksalot
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First sounds recorded on Mars:
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Imagine how proud it must make you feel if you worked on that in any capacity.
VulcanRaven
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Perseverance Rover’s First 360 View of Mars:
FunkMiller
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130 million miles away.
Sorry, that doesn’t quite get the magnitude of it across.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILLION MILES AWAY.
...That‘s better.
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mansoor1980
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at age14saw pictures from the viking lander in my science encyclopedia book and was amazed , now looking at that landing video and i cannot believe wat i am seeing
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
mansoor1980
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how much time does it it take to get the video feed to earth
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Brilliant imagery there. Congrats to NASA and associates. So many people work on these things, amazing what can be achieve when working together instead of fighting over bullshit.
