Mars Rover landing

[Sysman]

Wow!

Lots of possible failure points. Exciting stuff.

Yep. Any one release mechanism that's supposed to let go at the right time but doesn't would cause a failure.

[Sysman]

I agree, hopefully stuff like that will make some kids think "Wow! I want to be an engineer!".

Heck it had me thinking that.

[TimberWolf]

That's the curse of being the only species that knows it will die.

A good proportion of the human species don't believe that either.

[bless 'em all]

As the Sun get’s hotter and gets to the end of it’s shelf life, humans will have to colonise Mars to get an extra few million years. It is better we start now.

How humans might colonise Mars

Good book, amazing trilogy. This is worth a read.

[MarillionFan]

I agree, hopefully stuff like that will make some kids think "Wow! I want to be an engineer!".

Wow!

Lots of possible failure points. Exciting stuff.

[SupremeSpod]

As the Sun get’s hotter and gets to the end of it’s shelf life, humans will have to colonise Mars to get an extra few million years. It is better we start now.

That's the curse of being the only species that knows it will die.

[SupremeSpod]

a thrilling video, you just don't realise how much of an engineering effort was involved just on the landing.

I agree, hopefully stuff like that will make some kids think "Wow! I want to be an engineer!".

[Paddy]

As the Sun get’s hotter and gets to the end of it’s shelf life, humans will have to colonise Mars to get an extra few million years. It is better we start now.

[Diver]

Fantastic!

[Sands of Time]

Cool.




Tone

[BolshieBastard]

It should be a piece of piss for them if they dont make basic mistakes of mixing metric and imperial measurement for the landing data.

The Sky Crane is a great idea though, stuff of sc fi in fact. Landing's in August isnt it?

[sbakoola]

a thrilling video, you just don't realise how much of an engineering effort was involved just on the landing.

[TimberWolf]

Curiosity is the dog's bollards. Nice video.

Nuclear powered and packs a pulsed 10 megawatt laser that can make short work of any life it finds, as long as it is really small and slow.



Due the land in August this year I believe

[Sysman]

Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror.

Not as simple as you might think.

Linky