Hi guys, any news on the mars exploration of the Beagle II, Spirit or Oppurtunity?

 

Well, post here! Any news that you have heard, rumours, anything, I need to know. MY newspaper doesn't have lots of info on this sort of stuff, so i thought that it would be best to keep it here!

 

 

 

Thanx guys

Last I heard there was a piece of the "airbag" that was blocking the downramp, so they were going to delay 3 days while they lifted the pedals and retracted the airbag completely.

 

Space.com is a very good source for latest mars info. Also might want to check out NASA and JPL's pages.

 

Space.com is reporting that everything is good to go for the rover to move off the pad on tuesday night. It'll be interesting to see what it finds!

 

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_update_040110.html

Yeah. ME too! WHERE ON MARS IS THE BEAGLE 2. What a lousy spacecraft!

Shouldn't this be in the News section?

yeah. But this is just for ANY information, usually, the news section only has the important stuff! This one is just for tiny litle things that people don't take account of!

And, of course, there are Mars-related threads in the News section, so this is redundant.

Anyway, I 'spose we should talk about Mars.

I hear an airbag is blocking the ramp for the rover.

yeah. That was quite a long time ago. I also heard that there would be a mission somewhere near 24 jan or something. What is that anyways?

Overnight, the golfcart-sized rover cut the final cord tying it to the landing platform that it came in on 10 days ago, then backed up about 10 inches (25 centimeters) and turned 45 degrees. These were the first maneuvers planned in preparation for having Spirit roll 10 feet (3 meters) down a ramp onto the Martian surface on Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3855168/

 

 

Wooohooo. Almost time to leave the pad

And then find a Martian with a ray gun hiding behind a rock

Anyone familiar with what measures were taking to ensure bacteria from earth didn't get onto the surface of mars from the various probes that have landed on it?

hmmm.... good question. yeah, and what IF the bacteria landed on mars, wouldn't they have died anyway?

cool, the Explorer has left it`s pad and traveled 10 feet, there were concerns over it not being able to leave as planned due to an air bag that was obstructing the "off ramp", but despite fears, the test mission was a 100% sucess, and 2 excellent photos were taken, one forwards, and one looking back at it base platform. Nice work NASA

Yeah. Now let's wait and see what they find. I also heard that the ramp that was blocked by the airbag was the ramp where the rover would have to go by. Now they changed plans to take a more DANGEROUS route. COOL!!!!

yeah, I watched it Live this morning from the Pasadena control center, the pics were Great!

LUCKY MAN!

 

Nice, maybe u can give us some feedback!

It was a satelite link to Sky News, I don`t know if they cover your area? they might, but I`m sure CNN or Fox will be coving it just the same, it`ll certainly make it to your normal evening news though

yeah. I haven't watching the news lately, i only read the newspapers. *Sigh....*

Check out google's logo today:

 

they're a bit slow aren't they? faf would probably be at cydonia by now.

fafalone said in post # :

Anyone familiar with what measures were taking to ensure bacteria from earth didn't get onto the surface of mars from the various probes that have landed on it?

 

I think pretty much all landers are sterilised now aren't they? They seem to take great care to make sure that non-landers go somewhere safe, like bashing them into jupiter and so on.

fafalone said in post # :

Anyone familiar with what measures were taking to ensure bacteria from earth didn't get onto the surface of mars from the various probes that have landed on it?

They have a guy called the Planetary Protection Officer (really!)

He takes swabs of the lander to make sure there aren't too many bacteria on the spacecraft. But wouldn't they all die in a vacuum with no water (space)?

alot of them would sure, but spores would make the trip quite easily