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Message 1268222 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 5:11:23 UTC - in response to Message 1268218.  

Hey the Martians have had their chance to invade, now it's our turn. ;)
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Message 1268226 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 5:33:20 UTC

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Message 1268233 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 5:47:39 UTC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19144464
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Message 1268240 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 6:01:30 UTC

Was watching live, all I can say is ****ing incredible !!!
Bloody brilliant !!

There will be babies conceived in Pasadena tonight :-)

One of the people I was watching with made the comment, "That's to trouble with the Yanks. It's like having a savant relative. They can do incredible things but you have to watch them like a hawk because at any time and without warning they can go "Yeeeaaaargh" and create total mayhem that takes ages to clean up after."

Well Done NASA !!!

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Message 1268245 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 6:10:25 UTC - in response to Message 1268240.  

I watched it live on CNN, Now the system has passed the acid test, We've invaded Mars, Marvin look out... It's Laser vs Disintegration Ray...
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Message 1268264 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 7:02:54 UTC

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Message 1268272 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 7:14:16 UTC - in response to Message 1268264.  

It's all over the news here as well.

http://www.deingenieur.nl/nl/nieuws/19170/wagentje-curiosity-goed-geland-op-mars.html
(It's in Dutch though)

The News here said the curiosity rover could operate anywhere from 2.5 years to 10 years...
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Message 1268276 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 7:17:56 UTC - in response to Message 1268272.  

It's all over the news here as well.

http://www.deingenieur.nl/nl/nieuws/19170/wagentje-curiosity-goed-geland-op-mars.html
(It's in Dutch though)

The News here said the curiosity rover could operate anywhere from 2.5 years to 10 years...


10 years is a long time. Maybe humans will be ready to set foot on Mars by then.
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Message 1268279 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 7:21:00 UTC - in response to Message 1268276.  
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It's all over the news here as well.

http://www.deingenieur.nl/nl/nieuws/19170/wagentje-curiosity-goed-geland-op-mars.html
(It's in Dutch though)

The News here said the curiosity rover could operate anywhere from 2.5 years to 10 years...


10 years is a long time. Maybe humans will be ready to set foot on Mars by then.

That should be 2.0 years to 10 years, this rover is Nuclear powered, as the rover has a Plutonium heart...

Maybe, We'll see.
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Message 1268283 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 7:26:53 UTC

Oh and to those in Arizona, this one's bigger than the little hole there.

The Valles Marineris rift system on Mars is 10 times longer, five times deeper and 20 times wider than the Grand Canyon. This composite image was made aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which launched in 2001.

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Message 1268386 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 14:52:58 UTC

Curiosity armed with Laser for invasion of Mars...

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Message 1268484 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 18:38:37 UTC - in response to Message 1268283.  

Oh and to those in Arizona, this one's bigger than the little hole there.

The Valles Marineris rift system on Mars is 10 times longer, five times deeper and 20 times wider than the Grand Canyon. This composite image was made aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which launched in 2001.


Must be gigantic, standing in front of it. The Grand Canyon is that impressive already.
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Message 1268497 - Posted: 6 Aug 2012, 19:06:19 UTC - in response to Message 1268484.  
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Oh and to those in Arizona, this one's bigger than the little hole there.

The Valles Marineris rift system on Mars is 10 times longer, five times deeper and 20 times wider than the Grand Canyon. This composite image was made aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which launched in 2001.


Must be gigantic, standing in front of it. The Grand Canyon is that impressive already.

You could fit 10,000 Grand Canyons in that rift, which is thought to have been from an impact that stopped the Martian global magnetic field, hence the thin atmosphere, now if that could be somehow restarted or emulated, Mars could become Green...

Of course the other problem is the cold 80F at the equator and I think -121F at night, -200F at the poles, far colder than most plants like, which is talked about Here...


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Message 1268702 - Posted: 7 Aug 2012, 10:20:22 UTC - in response to Message 1268497.  

Mars could become Green...


Guess that will happen in a couple of billion years when the sun becomes a red giant. Mars could even become livable then. That is if the composition of the atmosphere changes as well and if the humans are still around, which I doubt somehow.
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Message 1268770 - Posted: 7 Aug 2012, 14:17:52 UTC - in response to Message 1268702.  

Mars could become Green...


Guess that will happen in a couple of billion years when the sun becomes a red giant. Mars could even become livable then. That is if the composition of the atmosphere changes as well and if the humans are still around, which I doubt somehow.

Actually it is within the range of human ability and technology, all We'd need to do is warm the planet up some to melt the co2 at the poles, add a plant to break down ammonia into Nitrogen and Hydrogen and of course once the air is warm enough add plants, easily done according to NASA, now of course the one sticking point is making a replacement magnetic field to protect that atmosphere 24/7...
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Message 1268788 - Posted: 7 Aug 2012, 14:49:27 UTC - in response to Message 1268770.  

Mars could become Green...

Guess that will happen in a couple of billion years when the sun becomes a red giant. Mars could even become livable then. That is if the composition of the atmosphere changes as well and if the humans are still around, which I doubt somehow.

Actually it is within the range of human ability and technology, all We'd need to do is warm the planet up some to melt the co2 at the poles, add a plant to break down ammonia into Nitrogen and Hydrogen and of course once the air is warm enough add plants, easily done according to NASA, now of course the one sticking point is making a replacement magnetic field to protect that atmosphere 24/7...

Perhaps in the next 50-100 years, as the state of the art of space transportation advances.

First, manned exploration missions, then maybe the magnetic field, then greenhouse gasses to thicken the atmosphere and warm the planet a bit.....

Some excellent science fiction has been written about terra-forming Mars. Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" trilogy comes immediately to mind.
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Message 1268805 - Posted: 7 Aug 2012, 23:20:16 UTC - in response to Message 1268788.  

Mars could become Green...

Guess that will happen in a couple of billion years when the sun becomes a red giant. Mars could even become livable then. That is if the composition of the atmosphere changes as well and if the humans are still around, which I doubt somehow.

Actually it is within the range of human ability and technology, all We'd need to do is warm the planet up some to melt the co2 at the poles, add a plant to break down ammonia into Nitrogen and Hydrogen and of course once the air is warm enough add plants, easily done according to NASA, now of course the one sticking point is making a replacement magnetic field to protect that atmosphere 24/7...

Perhaps in the next 50-100 years, as the state of the art of space transportation advances.

First, manned exploration missions, then maybe the magnetic field, then greenhouse gasses to thicken the atmosphere and warm the planet a bit.....

Some excellent science fiction has been written about terra-forming Mars. Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" trilogy comes immediately to mind.

Still it would be one heck of an achievement...
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Message 1268933 - Posted: 8 Aug 2012, 6:20:43 UTC - in response to Message 1268805.  

Mars could become Green...

Guess that will happen in a couple of billion years when the sun becomes a red giant. Mars could even become livable then. That is if the composition of the atmosphere changes as well and if the humans are still around, which I doubt somehow.

Actually it is within the range of human ability and technology, all We'd need to do is warm the planet up some to melt the co2 at the poles, add a plant to break down ammonia into Nitrogen and Hydrogen and of course once the air is warm enough add plants, easily done according to NASA, now of course the one sticking point is making a replacement magnetic field to protect that atmosphere 24/7...

Perhaps in the next 50-100 years, as the state of the art of space transportation advances.

First, manned exploration missions, then maybe the magnetic field, then greenhouse gasses to thicken the atmosphere and warm the planet a bit.....

Some excellent science fiction has been written about terra-forming Mars. Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" trilogy comes immediately to mind.

Still it would be one heck of an achievement...


A difficult achievement as well I think.

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Message 1268935 - Posted: 8 Aug 2012, 6:27:58 UTC

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