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Post by Boothen on Nov 26, 2018 19:18:26 GMT
Live stream from Mission Control. Landing is scheduled for around 45mins time.
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Post by Boothen on Nov 26, 2018 19:36:15 GMT
Starting now. They've just switched the probe's star tracker and switched to it's inertial guidance system.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2018 20:06:37 GMT
Landed successfully - very impressive achievement
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Post by maninasuitcase on Nov 26, 2018 20:22:43 GMT
How awesome would it be if they found a reactor like on total recall.
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Post by thequietman on Nov 26, 2018 23:08:42 GMT
Landed successfully - very impressive achievement Hugely impressive. My dreams as a kid of stowing away on a spaceship and becoming a space pirate seem to have passed but our solar system still fascinates me. Is there life on Mars? Is there life in Peckham? |
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Post by murphthesurf on Nov 27, 2018 0:38:23 GMT
WOW.  Absolutely stunning achievement......... mind boggling. There are some incredibly brilliant scientists about.....
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Post by felonious on Nov 27, 2018 6:21:11 GMT
Landed successfully - very impressive achievement Is this the real Mars or some huge warehouse complex outside Pittsburgh?  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2018 6:29:57 GMT
Landed successfully - very impressive achievement Is this the real Mars or some huge warehouse complex outside Pittsburgh? I'm hoping it's the real one  |
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Post by Cast no shadow on Nov 27, 2018 11:28:36 GMT
I find it astonishing that we can land on a planet 54.6million km away
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Post by dutchstokie on Nov 27, 2018 12:17:31 GMT
I find it astonishing that we can land on a planet 54.6million km away Ryan can do that with his passes....😁 |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2018 12:23:35 GMT
Looking deeper under the surface I believe?
Any details about it?
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Nov 27, 2018 12:30:06 GMT
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Nov 27, 2018 13:37:19 GMT
Landed successfully - very impressive achievement Is this the real Mars or some huge warehouse complex outside Pittsburgh? Boslem.  |
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Post by starkiller on Nov 27, 2018 13:41:16 GMT
Arizona with a filter again?
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Post by mtrstudent on Nov 29, 2018 6:24:57 GMT
Looking deeper under the surface I believe? Any details about it? Fucking fantastic stuff, I had goosebumps. My Mum watched it on YouTube and it's the first time she'd ever seen an internet comment thread, think she was a bit shellshocked.  JPL has a page. It's got three main thingies on it: a seismometer to detect marsquakes, a 5 metre drill and thermometers and an astronomy thing that tracks locations of stuff in the sky. Then you can work out how much Mars shakes, how much geothermal heating there is and how the planet wobbles as it spins. Should let us work out what its insides are like. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 6:58:08 GMT
Looking deeper under the surface I believe? Any details about it? Fucking fantastic stuff, I had goosebumps. My Mum watched it on YouTube and it's the first time she'd ever seen an internet comment thread, think she was a bit shellshocked. JPL has a page. It's got three main thingies on it: a seismometer to detect marsquakes, a 5 metre drill and thermometers and an astronomy thing that tracks locations of stuff in the sky. Then you can work out how much Mars shakes, how much geothermal heating there is and how the planet wobbles as it spins. Should let us work out what its insides are like. Cheers MS, quite surprised schools and media don’t make a bigger fuss of these things i think they’ve known for some years that it has a molten core due to its wobble caused by the sun i only just just found out that asteroids are prob the cause of it losing its magnetic field 😱 |
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Post by iamcliveclarke on Nov 29, 2018 19:18:00 GMT
Also, 2 cubesats put into Mars orbit at the same time. First time to another planet.
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Post by Boothen on Nov 29, 2018 20:53:42 GMT
Also, 2 cubesats put into Mars orbit at the same time. First time to another planet. Also the first time they used a dedicated secondary satellite to transmit data/telemetry back to Earth too. |
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Post by marylandstoke on Nov 29, 2018 21:11:25 GMT
Also, 2 cubesats put into Mars orbit at the same time. First time to another planet. Also the first time they used a dedicated secondary satellite to transmit data/telemetry back to Earth too. Which is absolutely awesome in its own right....unless it was Pittsburg in which case it was likely just a land line. |
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Post by mtrstudent on Dec 2, 2018 5:56:25 GMT
Also, 2 cubesats put into Mars orbit at the same time. First time to another planet. Also the first time they used a dedicated secondary satellite to transmit data/telemetry back to Earth too. The radar dish is wild, you can see it here or here. Flat pack but with a special complicated pattern on them to make them act like normal dishes, except you can fold up a much bigger one on the ground then unfold it in space. Nuts! |
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Post by mtrstudent on Dec 2, 2018 6:05:43 GMT
Fucking fantastic stuff, I had goosebumps. My Mum watched it on YouTube and it's the first time she'd ever seen an internet comment thread, think she was a bit shellshocked. JPL has a page. It's got three main thingies on it: a seismometer to detect marsquakes, a 5 metre drill and thermometers and an astronomy thing that tracks locations of stuff in the sky. Then you can work out how much Mars shakes, how much geothermal heating there is and how the planet wobbles as it spins. Should let us work out what its insides are like. Cheers MS, quite surprised schools and media don’t make a bigger fuss of these things i think they’ve known for some years that it has a molten core due to its wobble caused by the sun i only just just found out that asteroids are prob the cause of it losing its magnetic field 😱 Turns out a lot of people don't give a shit! I just can't imagine not being amazed by this sort of stuff, but apparently I'm the weird one. JPL try to get people interested. They won an award for this video, I think it's beautiful and amazing: |
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Post by stayingupfor GermanStokie on Dec 2, 2018 9:41:09 GMT
Cheers MS, quite surprised schools and media don’t make a bigger fuss of these things i think they’ve known for some years that it has a molten core due to its wobble caused by the sun i only just just found out that asteroids are prob the cause of it losing its magnetic field 😱 Turns out a lot of people don't give a shit! I just can't imagine not being amazed by this sort of stuff, but apparently I'm the weird one. JPL try to get people interested. They won an award for this video, I think it's beautiful and amazing: Oh we definitely give a shit in this house! Pt is hooked! BTW... you’ll be receiving a parcel soon MrStudent... just some Christmas treats as a thank you from a certain little lad who you and JPL/NASA constantly inspires! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2018 12:37:13 GMT
Cheers MS, quite surprised schools and media don’t make a bigger fuss of these things i think they’ve known for some years that it has a molten core due to its wobble caused by the sun i only just just found out that asteroids are prob the cause of it losing its magnetic field 😱 Turns out a lot of people don't give a shit! I just can't imagine not being amazed by this sort of stuff, but apparently I'm the weird one. JPL try to get people interested. They won an award for this video, I think it's beautiful and amazing: When my lad was about 8 I took him to a local planetarium run by Dr Lister at Laurence house Rossall the way he he spoke to George and explained the night sky had him hooked from day one that Christmas we were out in the back garden every clear night sitting on reclining deck chairs finding our way around and naming as many stars as we could. then came the telescope/ camera etc then the courses. Before I knew it he was taking his gcse in astronomy at the ripe old age of 14 and doing Q&A on radio Lancashire with his mentor Dr Lister😁 now 22 with astrophysics degree behind him, a senior mentor at summer space school in Leicester and spending a couple of years teaching school kids in Hampshire, hes pondering his next move in something that is only rivalled his love for Stoke City 😁😁 what im saying is......I wish every school had a Dr Lister |
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Post by ilfracoombestokie3 on Dec 2, 2018 19:20:37 GMT
Turns out a lot of people don't give a shit! I just can't imagine not being amazed by this sort of stuff, but apparently I'm the weird one. JPL try to get people interested. They won an award for this video, I think it's beautiful and amazing: When my lad was about 8 I took him to a local planetarium run by Dr Lister at Laurence house Rossall the way he he spoke to George and explained the night sky had him hooked from day one that Christmas we were out in the back garden every clear night sitting on reclining deck chairs finding our way around and naming as many stars as we could. then came the telescope/ camera etc then the courses. Before I knew it he was taking his gcse in astronomy at the ripe old age of 14 and doing Q&A on radio Lancashire with his mentor Dr Lister😁 now 22 with astrophysics degree behind him, a senior mentor at summer space school in Leicester and spending a couple of years teaching school kids in Hampshire, hes pondering his next move in something that is only rivalled his love for Stoke City 😁😁 what im saying is......I wish every school had a Dr Lister That just shows, with the right education, You can reach for the Stars. |
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Post by mtrstudent on Dec 4, 2018 16:44:49 GMT
Turns out a lot of people don't give a shit! I just can't imagine not being amazed by this sort of stuff, but apparently I'm the weird one. JPL try to get people interested. They won an award for this video, I think it's beautiful and amazing: When my lad was about 8 I took him to a local planetarium run by Dr Lister at Laurence house Rossall the way he he spoke to George and explained the night sky had him hooked from day one that Christmas we were out in the back garden every clear night sitting on reclining deck chairs finding our way around and naming as many stars as we could. then came the telescope/ camera etc then the courses. Before I knew it he was taking his gcse in astronomy at the ripe old age of 14 and doing Q&A on radio Lancashire with his mentor Dr Lister😁 now 22 with astrophysics degree behind him, a senior mentor at summer space school in Leicester and spending a couple of years teaching school kids in Hampshire, hes pondering his next move in something that is only rivalled his love for Stoke City 😁😁 what im saying is......I wish every school had a Dr Lister I bet Dr Lister is absolutely chuffed about what your lad's gone and done! I was a nerdy kid but I think his radio Lancashire stuff blows me out of the water. I didn't know what I wanted until my first 6th form physics lesson. One teacher had us try to break his old climbing helmet or reassemble a regenerative braking system he'd got somewhere (knicked off some parent's car by our scouse teacher?), then we'd have to explain it. The other one had us cooking pasta or building catapults. I remember being bored shitless on the tills at Tesco in Kidsgrove, and this physics thing seemed more like fun than work. Those two teachers got me to make one of the best decisions of my life. Do you know what sort of stuff your lad's looking into? My uni mates ended up all over the place: national grid, wind farms, nuclear reactors on subs, coders, military intelligence. Lots of places want people who know how to investigate mysteries and do sums. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2018 20:06:15 GMT
When my lad was about 8 I took him to a local planetarium run by Dr Lister at Laurence house Rossall the way he he spoke to George and explained the night sky had him hooked from day one that Christmas we were out in the back garden every clear night sitting on reclining deck chairs finding our way around and naming as many stars as we could. then came the telescope/ camera etc then the courses. Before I knew it he was taking his gcse in astronomy at the ripe old age of 14 and doing Q&A on radio Lancashire with his mentor Dr Lister😁 now 22 with astrophysics degree behind him, a senior mentor at summer space school in Leicester and spending a couple of years teaching school kids in Hampshire, hes pondering his next move in something that is only rivalled his love for Stoke City 😁😁 what im saying is......I wish every school had a Dr Lister I bet Dr Lister is absolutely chuffed about what your lad's gone and done! I was a nerdy kid but I think his radio Lancashire stuff blows me out of the water. I didn't know what I wanted until my first 6th form physics lesson. One teacher had us try to break his old climbing helmet or reassemble a regenerative braking system he'd got somewhere (knicked off some parent's car by our scouse teacher?), then we'd have to explain it. The other one had us cooking pasta or building catapults. I remember being bored shitless on the tills at Tesco in Kidsgrove, and this physics thing seemed more like fun than work. Those two teachers got me to make one of the best decisions of my life. Do you know what sort of stuff your lad's looking into? My uni mates ended up all over the place: national grid, wind farms, nuclear reactors on subs, coders, military intelligence. Lots of places want people who know how to investigate mysteries and do sums. 😂😂 sounds like my kind of school More importantly, you dropped on the right kund of teachers Research in astrophysics or astronomy (PHD) see where it takes him He's always been interested in the media side of it too so, who knows |
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Post by musik on Dec 6, 2018 23:46:12 GMT
Has Trump got his ticket yet?
He said Mars was a possibility.
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Absolutely stunning achievement......... mind boggling. There are some incredibly brilliant scientists about..... 
