Mars Landing

[Duman]

I remember the first moon landing, my dad let me stay up all night to watch the broadcasts.
This video of the Mars Perseverance landing was taken with off the shelf cameras mounted on the lander. It was a bootleg project, not mission
critical and not really expected to work, but worked flawlessly.

[HunterCO]

Pretty cool first ever color photos and much more to come. However has anyone else noticed all the conspiracy theorists are already saying its fake. Makes me laugh at how stupid people can be.

[SideShow Bob]

At least they didn’t mix up metric & imperial units of measurement again...........

[Duman]

At least they didn’t mix up metric & imperial units of measurement again...........

Tru dat........

[arbol]

It seems very inhospitable, and I am not sure what we have to gain by going to Mars, again.

I did watch a Nova show about this, and apparently they are looking for "proof of life" on Mars.

They are looking to see if 3-3.5 Billion Years Ago, microbes lived on Mars.

I wouldn't say this is expensive (something over a billion dollars) in our Corona Virus world of Trillions of dollars being spent.

[hollohas]

I think the Mars landing is awesome. I watched it live and was pumped. The "was there life on Mars?" question is silly and not important IMO. It's just an academic history question. It doesn't matter if there WAS. What matters is what is true now. IS there water? What other valuable minerals can be found there? Are there currently microbes that will kill the human race if they are brought back to earth? Things like that.

However, the technological lessons learned from this and previous landings are invaluable. The next steps are to make a return trip from Mars which is a big deal. Space travel is worthless until we can figure out how to bring material and people home. Once we can do that, we'll start to see the benefits of space travel. This landing is a huge step in that direction. Plus, they put a freaking drone helicopter on Mars too. That's just awesome.

I LOVE when the USA does extraordinary things. Especially after the MSM was totally excited about the UAE "beating NASA to Mars" as one headline put it. The UAE probe made it there a few days before, took a picture and the world acted like it was a huge deal. It wasn't. The UAE probe was designed and built in Colorado and launched on a Japanese rocket. The UAE just funded it and put their sticker on it. Hardly a historic accomplishment. Suck it media, the USA still kicks ass in space.

[WETWRKS]

So...does this make Mars the only planet solely enhabited by robots?

[ChickNorris]

So...does this make Mars the only planet solely enhabited by robots?

& Wells' cephalopods

[Aloha_Shooter]

It seems very inhospitable, and I am not sure what we have to gain by going to Mars, again.

There's still a lot we don't know about Mars. We have barely touched it and we need to know a lot more if we're ever going send humans there. We do need to extend humanity outside Earth's cradle before we get a planet killer impact again and Mars has the advantage of having reasonable gravity and the ability to hold onto some form of atmosphere.

Simply enabling the voyage to Mars will necessitate advances in safety, medical, and ecological technologies which will benefit all the humans living on THIS rock. Estimates are that every dollar spent on the Apollo program returned over seven dollars to the US economy (some estimates are much higher).

[BladesNBarrels]

It seems very inhospitable, and I am not sure what we have to gain by going to Mars, again.

Because we are humans and that is what we do!