the time for Mars has come

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Uninhabitable. Next..

 

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Mars is inhabitable! *hugs Mars*

 

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Humans will die almost instantly on it's surface.

 

Humans have an ability to build facilities to provide life support on any surface!

 

Then why Mars, the Moon will be cheaper.

 

Because Moon is way too close to Earth, because Mars has much more to offer and teach us.

 

Too close

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In what ways does Mars have more to offer and teach ?
And why do we need to settle there to get and learn ?

 

maybe you don't, but some of us do need to go there. So you stay here on Earth...while we go travel the space!

 

My idea. Only don't fuck up my home in the process please.

 

I voted yes to "Yes I agree, we need to speed things up and invest into space "

Regardless of the "No Fly Zone" heh heh heh heh heh.

 

Might be worth mentioning that humans could have done all the science all the Mars probes have done in a day or two. Well, except maybe the recon orbiter mapping the surface.

But still, Phoenix is hardly getting anything done because the soil is sticking to the scoop. A person would just crumble it in his hand. Robotic probes may end up costing us more in the long run, because the amount of science they get done in a trip is much smaller than what a human could acheive.

 

But robotics save us money, I mean I understand the phase of robotic exploration needs to commense further, but at some point we have gathered enough information from Mars robotic explorations (info like weather patterns, soil composition, radiation pattern, geologic features, as well as successful planet approach spacecraft delta v patterns) and at that point we need to move on and explore it on foot.

 

Humans could not have explored and examined as much as the twin rovers plus the Phoniex over the brief time they would be there. They also might not have made it there as well. The costs would have been astronomical as well. Plus there's no radiation shielding for humans yet so they would have many medical problems when and if they returned.


They should have used non sticking teflon coating on that scoop!

 

Mars Phoenix should learn from the future to be mission Phobos-Grunt from Roskosmos.

Phobos-Grunt utilizez an injector technology rather than using a scoop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0cUvK0Dgy8

 

The only problem I see right away is that when it vacuums up the sample it could get stuck inside the tube it travels up in. There's a bend than could be a problem when the sample is traveling through the tube. The tube should be straight , going directly into the holding chamber. There's another drawback, what if it lands on solid rock? That device can't go through solid rock can it? It is a clever alternative to what the scoop is. Quite an ambitious probe. It faces many obstacles just trying to land it the way it is shown. Good luck with it, when is it due for deployment?

 

due 2009

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WOW!

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That's very quick and way ahead of everyone else...way to go with getting it together and ready for launch that fast!. I hope to be watching this with great interest.

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