Mythopoeika
I am a meat popsicle
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- Inside a starship, watching puny humans from afar
Overflowing with what, I wonder?Looks just like Cromer beach, even the overflowing old barrel.
Overflowing with what, I wonder?Looks just like Cromer beach, even the overflowing old barrel.
Maybe they've finally found Jimmy HoffaIt's not a barrel, it's one of those metal cylinders the martians fired at Earth.
Maybe they've finally found Jimmy Hoffa
Perseverance includes a helo probe strapped to it. The helo has reported back successfully and it scheduled for more testing before launch. It looks drone sized.Will a helicopter work on Mars? I know they struggle a high altitude with low atmospheric pressure, i know when they started developing the Mars helo they theorised it was possible but it couldnt be tested practically on Earth
Small, very light, solar powered, with wide blades one above the other rotating in opposite directions. It was tested in a pressure chamber here on Earth in similar conditions to those on Mars. It is mounted under the rover, to be lowered to the ground and then launched after the rover starts moving. Completely autonomous, of course, one cannot fly an aircraft with a multi-minute lag between input and response.Perseverance includes a helo probe strapped to it. The helo has reported back successfully and it scheduled for more testing before launch. It looks drone sized.
That looks like a dead donkey, centre left, definitely Cromer Beach.
A dark blob like that is in all of the recent photos from Mars.Any ideas as to what this strange dark object can be?
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Any ideas as to what this strange dark object can be?
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A dark blob like that is in all of the recent photos from Mars.
It may be a grain of sand on the lens, or a dead pixel on the camera's CCD, or something may actually be flying around in Mars's atmosphere.
Martian Bat Signal.
They can buy all the rock they want here in Brighton or Edinburgh. No need to go to Mars.So that's why China sent a probe to Mars - to look for a new food source.
The latest full-colour photos are magnificent.
This one caught my eye, due to the darker colouring at the top of the mound.
May well just be shadow but, given that dribbles of briny water have been observed dribbling down crater walls (as discussed in another Mars thread), could the dark patches be indicative of moisture?
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Any ideas as to what this strange dark object can be?
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That's where the new Trump Tower will go!
or a new golf course
That looks like a dead donkey, centre left, definitely Cromer Beach.
Where are the flames and the drunken tramps?
There you go proof someone has visited Mars before. That is clearly an oil drum. I can't believe NASA hasn't airbrushed this one.
Too drunk to turn on the containment field, all members of the Budweiser-sponsored Tramp Exploration Force perished in the Martian atmosphere...
:boozing:
This is how it all started:
https://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/budweiser-mars-colonization.html
NASA is now launching members of the Pothead Space Task Force to secure the base...
what the winds of Mars sound like
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25714/perseverance-rovers-supercam-records-wind-on-mars/
and what Perseverance’s lasers on Mars sound like
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25715/first-acoustic-recording-of-laser-shots-on-mars/
Small, very light, solar powered, with wide blades one above the other rotating in opposite directions. It was tested in a pressure chamber here on Earth in similar conditions to those on Mars. It is mounted under the rover, to be lowered to the ground and then launched after the rover starts moving. Completely autonomous, of course, one cannot fly an aircraft with a multi-minute lag between input and response.
PBS in the US had a great show on the engineering and testing of the rover and helicopter, including unexpected problems caused by the especially-intense cleansing of the sample tubes; it is possible to make something too clean to work.