Martian News Flash The first of the mars rover twins (Spirit) has landed and is communicating!!! NASA 2004 Rover home page: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html for the latest updates on mission stats go here: http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html If you have any links, info or questions please post them… here! This post is prone to updates
Another one... yawn, it's as exciting as a cow giving birth... for the 40 th time, and usually the calf dies (i.e. Beagle II) . Jezze it's time to get some men up there are start colonizing damn it!
BANG! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! no use to colonize if we don't know what's there for that reason are the probes, rovers, robotic planes, etc
GO ROVER ! ! Here is to the Mars Rover, tips his whiskey glass, can you imagine the thrill of operating a Radio Controlled car on Mars? Wow! I mean with cameras and all kinds of ways to investigate your surroundings,,, wipes drool from the mouth. But till we have way, way faster than light communications and engines,,, sighs.
It landed and is alive!!! Hears to the astronaut of 2045, I solute you! Here is a good site for the lates updates: http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html BAD NEWS: the Mars Odyssey orbiter is communicating fine proving that its communication equipment is in fully functional order and thus meaning that another possible theory on why no sign of the Beagle lander has been detected has been found incorrect.
Uncle Jesse, The exciting thing is that the cow gives birth to much more advanced calfes than in the past, covering much more area with better instruments, it can possibly find some answers for the really interesting questions regarding (previous) existence of water or life on mars. And while I agree that sending some people to mars has more of an exciting glorious touch to it, I feel that money would better be spent first to try to see if we can permanently colonize the nearby moon and make the moon economically profitable. In the long run, the moon will be a much cheaper launch platform for colonists to mars (or most other places in the solar system) than earth. Also the mooncolonists are more already fammiliar with living in rough environment....
So how many degrees are there on Mars, and how is the atmosphere different from Earth? Or, what's the weather like?
Here's a link to a chart updated daily showing various things about Mars. http://humbabe.arc.nasa.gov/MarsToday/marstotal.gif The chart is explained here.
Yes, I can roughly tell you that Mars has a atmosphere with surface pressures ~.006 ours or about the same air pressure here on earth at 65,000 feet up! Its atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide. Its weather consists of dust, dust storms, planet wide dust storms, dust devils, jets streams and the occasional meteor. Its average temperature is –55C or –67F, but the temperature swings dramatically because of the thin atmosphere summer daytime temps as high as 80F and winter nighttimes temps as low as –207F. Out of all the planets (except Earth of course) Mars is the most habitable. Take Venus for example, surface temperature of 850F and surface air pressure 91 times that of earths, and covered by clouds of sulfuric acid. To bad humans will probably never go to Mars in human form.
