MARS Landing

[kstanf150]

Big day for NASA today Feb 18, 2021
Rover and helicopter landing
Should be interesting to see what this mission sends back to earth

 

[atikovi]

Is this going live on TV? What channel?

 

[mattwithcats]

 

[Jetronic]

they should have put a bugs bunny in it...

 

[skyactiv]

Is this going live on TV? What channel?

Doesn't Nasa have their own network?

 

[Quattro Pete]

Subject is already being discussed here:

Mars Perseverance landing technique

The Mars Perseverance Rover is scheduled for its landing on Mars on Feb 18. Here is a simple one page description on how it’s going to do it. The sequence will take 7 minutes, too short for NASA to monitor since it takes over 10 minutes for communications to reach back to earth. Enjoy.

bobistheoilguy.com

Here is how you can watch:

Watch Online: TV Schedule - NASA

TV schedule, upcoming program information about NASA's Mars Perseverance rover.

mars.nasa.gov

 

[Kestas]

 

[gman2304]

Having lived through the space race from Sputnik to present, it’s hard to get excited about a one way unmanned spacecraft landing on Mars and collecting soil and rock samples while storing the samples for pick up in the future. IMO it would be so much more exciting to watch a spacecraft being launched into space on live tv with humans aboard, have the spacecraft land on a celestial body, walk on the celestial body, hop into a purpose built rover that they took along with them and cruise around for a while, hit a couple golf balls, plant a flag, pick up soil and rock samples etc. Then get back into the lander, launch from the aforementioned celestial body then rendezvous with another spacecraft containing another human, and navigate through millions of miles of space to arrive safely back on earth, all captured on live tv! Now that would be something to see!

 

[JohnnyG]

In 17 minutes on YouTube.

 

[ZeeOSix]

^^^ Lots of live steaming on YT.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=live+mars+landing

Touch down in approx 1 hour from now.

 

[JimPghPA]

The helicopter will be interesting.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Having lived through the space race from Sputnik to present, it’s hard to get excited about a one way unmanned spacecraft landing on Mars and collecting soil and rock samples while storing the samples for pick up in the future. IMO it would be so much more exciting to watch a spacecraft being launched into space on live tv with humans aboard, have the spacecraft land on a celestial body, walk on the celestial body, hop into a purpose built rover that they took along with them and cruise around for a while, hit a couple golf balls, plant a flag, pick up soil and rock samples etc. Then get back into the lander, launch from the aforementioned celestial body then rendezvous with another spacecraft containing another human, and navigate through millions of miles of space to arrive safely back on earth, all captured on live tv! Now that would be something to see!

Yeah, that would be cool. Wait a minute...

 

[mattwithcats]

Once past the Van Allen belt, radiation in outer space will fry you to a crisp, unless you haul major shielding up,..

Short term is OK, but long term is impossible...