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:-) Really cool. Hope i live long enough to see humans walking on the red planet (or is that politically incorrect) Anyway, I'm stoked and hope I see it.
 
AKiss20 said:
Uhhhh what?

“In 1971 the Soviet Union sent probes Mars 2 and Mars 3, each carrying a lander, as part of the Mars probe program M-71. The Mars 2 lander failed to land and impacted Mars. The Mars 3 lander became the first probe to successfully soft-land on Mars, but its data-gathering had less success”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_landing#Mars_probe_program
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Apparently I was misled about that little factoid by reading and believing some internet journalism. Let that be a lesson to me. :oops::redface:

In my defense though, while the Russian probe did land, it wasn't exactly a successful mission as it failed almost immediately for unknown reasons. It could have been that the landing was too hard. But they did land and transmit for 14 seconds or so.
 
Mars 3 successfully soft-landed in that it was capable of sending back data, but for less time than intended as stated in my quoted section. I’m not minimizing JPL’s accomplishments, but just saying we don’t need to state incorrect information to acknowledge them. Their accomplishments are large enough without having to inflate them via incorrect information (not implying that was the intention JohnH).
 
AKiss20 said:
Mars 3 successfully soft-landed in that it was capable of sending back data, but for less time than intended as stated in my quoted section.
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Any truth to the rumor that the Mars3 14-second transmission before failure was simply: "Oooooooowwwwwwwccccccchhhhhhhhh"?
 
GaryM said:
Any truth to the rumor that the Mars3 14-second transmission before failure was simply: "Oooooooowwwwwwwccccccchhhhhhhhh"?
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Nope.

ой or ай!

(I think)
 
That was pretty damn cool to watch after having seen it live last week b
 
JOhnH said:
Wow! You were there? How cool is that! I had to wait for the 18 minute delay.
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Was not there, caught it on NASA TV. Didn’t know it was delayed.
 
We all knew that Mars has an atmosphere, albeit a thin one. But to see that camera view pointing up, witnessing the chute deploy in the Martian sky... It made it so real.
 
SoCal RV Flyer said:
We all knew that Mars has an atmosphere, albeit a thin one. But to see that camera view pointing up, witnessing the chute deploy in the Martian sky... It made it so real.
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Standard sea level pressure on Earth is 29.92.

Ground level pressure on Mars is about 0.18.
 
GaryM said:
Which makes the small helicopter they brought along all the more amazing.
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That is going to be cool!

Here’s what the X-Plane developer said about Mars flights:

https://www.x-plane.com/adventures/mars.html


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Bottom line: All airplanes on Mars are AIRBORNE TITANICS: Ripping blissfully along, unaware of their impending doom due to their inability to TURN against their tremendous inertia.
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