Mars Curiosity Rover - Mission Progress

Does it matter if we go to Mars or not. Billions of bucks down the tube for absolutely no reason. WE cannot live on it. And it wouldn't matter if we could. WE cannot live in space period. Sooner or later "WE" have got to get off this brick, and out of this system. The latest guess is that the moon is going to stuff things up with it's orbit problems in 1 million years.
But we are too big, like weigh too much, eat too much tucker and take too much energy to move. And there are too many of us and size reduction will be necessary.

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Max Garth

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The news article indicated that a work around is quite probable.
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Just watched the HD composite video of the decent. Very cool.
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Bob DeWoody

The Dolomiti mountains are more beautiful. But they were made by living beings, since they are made from skeletons of marine animals.
Tullio
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Doesn't this photo just make you feel that this planet Mars has a story to tell to us.
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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

Doesn't this photo just make you feel that this planet Mars has a story to tell to us.

Lynn, Johnney; I agree with both of you.

There going to have to land a science lab on Mars.
One day soon, the big powers are going to have to decide collectively what they wont,
space travel and exploration or armaments....they wont be able to afford both. So hopefully
someone will start the ball rolling and get all to go for space travel and exploration....
....it's going to be far more rewarding in the long term.


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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

If we ever get a human exploration to Mars, couple of question come into play.

Does NASA, Own Mars? Does the USA, own Mars?? Will Mars, need a president? The questions can go on, and on.

some photos are back online.






This mosaic from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover shows the view looking toward the "Glenelg" area, where three different terrain types come together. All three types are observed from orbit with the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. By driving there, Curiosity will be able to explore them.

One of the three terrain types is light-toned with well-developed layering, which likely records deposits of sedimentary materials. There are also black bands that run through the area and might constitute additional layers that alternate with the light-toned layers. The black bands are not easily seen from orbit and are on the order of about 3.3-feet (1-meter) thick. Both of these layer types are important science targets.