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  1. 18-Feb-2021 #1
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    Perseverance (Mars) landing - 18th Feb 2021

    Very much like Curiosity, Perseverence will be performing an epic Thunderbird'esque landing on Mars, but this time with a bucket load of video footage from onboard, complete with sound. Will be landing 8:45GMT, but I suspect the video footage will take days and days to beam back.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzmd7RouGrM

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    Epic!

    So now we need the video (& audio footage) back and for the onboard little helicopter to work too!
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    The microphone unfortunately didn't work

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg
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    Love this.
    They have got recordings of the wind after landing though.

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    The atmosphere is 100 thinner than Earth's, so that wind must surely be very gentle?

    But then of course you get month(s) long planet effecting dust storms!?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    The atmosphere is 100 thinner than Earth's, so that wind must surely be very gentle?
    The key flaw in the book/movie "The Martian", hehe. Still, it was an awesome book and movie.
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    And they're trying to fly a helicopter in that 100 times thinner atmosphere
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    You realise right now, there's a certain group of people buying that photoshop
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    You realise right now, there's a certain group of people buying that photoshop
    Coca-Cola or Pepsi always get "there" first. Always. In 1987 I was in the middle of the Amazonian territory of Venezuela, accompanying a large group of people (some of them family members) on a botanical expedition, after several hours walking "in the middle of nowhere" (and I mean even-snakes-and-other-wildlife-crawling-out-of-the-wilderness-and-crossing-your-path type of "middle of nowhere") we reached a river crossing that could only be traversed by seeking the help of the few local Indians with their canoes, but yet you could find "Drink Coke/Pepsi" ads around their tiny village.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDP View Post
    Not bad. But I think if they took photos in Photoshop, they could do better.
    I wonder what success awaits the Martian helicopter. Ingenuity is a completely new type of technology that has been tested only in artificial conditions. Do you know when the first flight will take place?
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