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For NASA's InSight Mars Lander, All Systems Are Go for Monday Touchdown
Space.com ^ | November 21, 2018 | Meghan Bartels

Posted on 11/22/2018 6:58:21 PM PST by aquila48

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To: carriage_hill

What are you smoking? Of course we’ve seen the dark side of the moon.


61 posted on 11/23/2018 8:00:44 AM PST by dinodino
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To: dinodino
Not according to:


62 posted on 11/23/2018 8:55:53 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Elsie

It is all about velocity. Google it.


63 posted on 11/23/2018 9:16:28 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Elsie

Sure, but it took 8-9yrs and billions to get there.
A Mars effort would dwarf that by 500x.
And the hardware component would be immense.
We’re not going to colonize anything, the Moon and/or Mars included. We know next-to-nothing about Earth.


64 posted on 11/23/2018 9:16:33 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Keep ‘em busy and out of trouble.


65 posted on 11/23/2018 12:02:22 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

Wan Hu?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu


66 posted on 11/23/2018 2:49:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv

Riding the rocket chair?

That’s just being lazy.


67 posted on 11/23/2018 4:11:17 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy
No, I just had tacos, sorry..

68 posted on 11/23/2018 4:57:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv

That could make it a two stage rocket chair.


69 posted on 11/23/2018 5:00:05 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv
Who you?

One Two?



70 posted on 11/24/2018 1:46:46 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie; Grimmy

;’)


71 posted on 11/24/2018 2:54:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Elsie

72 posted on 11/25/2018 5:54:43 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Asylum my ass; GIT!!


73 posted on 11/25/2018 5:21:29 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ZOOKER

Related article. Mars Polar Lander (crashed into Mars in 1999)

http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/microphones/sounds-on-mars.html


74 posted on 11/25/2018 6:37:36 PM PST by Az Joe (I AM TRUMP!)
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To: ZOOKER

And coming up in 2020...

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/rover/microphones/


75 posted on 11/25/2018 6:38:54 PM PST by Az Joe (I AM TRUMP!)
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