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With Mars mission and rover Curiosity, NASA hunts building blocks of life (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=261942)

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Originally Posted by qabbaan (Post 8794907)

I don't really see what the benefit would be

You kind of answered your own "question" with your previous post.

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8794911)

You kind of answered your own "question" with your previous post.

I am afraid I don't take your meaning.

Say, when will the kooks arrive saying all the space program stuff is faked?

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Originally Posted by qabbaan (Post 8794904)

I wouldn't have wanted to be there when that crater was created.

Better than drowning....

:D

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Originally Posted by Reerun_KC (Post 8794903)

Its time to put a man on Mars

The MSL mission has four scientific goals:
Determine whether Mars could ever have supported life.
Study the climate of Mars.
Study the geology of Mars.
Plan for a human mission to Mars.

To contribute to these goals, MSL has six main scientific objectives:
Determine the mineralogical composition of the Martian surface and near-surface geological materials.
Attempt to detect chemical building blocks of life (biosignatures).
Interpret the processes that have formed and modified rocks and soils.
Assess long-timescale (i.e., 4-billion-year) Martian atmospheric evolution processes.
Determine present state, distribution, and cycling of water and carbon dioxide.
Characterize the broad spectrum of surface radiation, including galactic radiation, cosmic radiation, solar proton events and secondary neutrons.
As part of its exploration, it is measuring the radiation exposure in the interior of the spacecraft as it travels to Mars, important data for a future manned mission.

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Originally Posted by Molitoth (Post 8794924)

The MSL mission has four scientific goals:
Determine whether Mars could ever have supported life.
Study the climate of Mars.
Study the geology of Mars.
Plan for a human mission to Mars.

To contribute to these goals, MSL has six main scientific objectives:
Determine the mineralogical composition of the Martian surface and near-surface geological materials.
Attempt to detect chemical building blocks of life (biosignatures).
Interpret the processes that have formed and modified rocks and soils.
Assess long-timescale (i.e., 4-billion-year) Martian atmospheric evolution processes.
Determine present state, distribution, and cycling of water and carbon dioxide.
Characterize the broad spectrum of surface radiation, including galactic radiation, cosmic radiation, solar proton events and secondary neutrons.
As part of its exploration, it is measuring the radiation exposure in the interior of the spacecraft as it travels to Mars, important data for a future manned mission.

Probably wont happen in my life time.

I am turning 40 in March, I dont see us putting a guy on Mars in the next 40 years...

do you ?

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8794881)

For those who are curious, this isn't the first time MRO has taken such a picture. Here's what MRO took of the Phoenix lander:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ce_Orbiter.jpg

That's a way cool photo.

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Originally Posted by qabbaan (Post 8794921)

I am afraid I don't take your meaning.

Say, when will the kooks arrive saying all the space program stuff is faked?

If/when an extinction event happens on Earth, having humans living elsewhere (Mars, the Moon, etc.) would ensure our continuation.

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8794931)

If/when an extinction event happens on Earth, having humans living elsewhere (Mars, the Moon, etc.) would ensure our continuation.

Which is why NASA and it's allies should be funded more than anything else on earth. This should be humans #1 goal.

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Originally Posted by KC Fish (Post 8794969)

Dammit... not again.....

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2...3429474310.jpg

LMAO

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Originally Posted by KC Fish (Post 8794969)

Dammit... not again.....

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2...3429474310.jpg

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Originally Posted by qabbaan (Post 8794921)

Say, when will the kooks arrive saying all the space program stuff is faked?

CoMo Chief should be inbound immediately after todays episode of Prisonerplanet and Infowars to tell us why Obama faked this.

Is that Schrodinger's cat?

That was pretty damn cool. I woke up to watch the feed at 1:15 and followed this thread (can't prove it though, because I didn't post anything) and the landing seemed to go off without a hitch. Amazing. Hail to the geeks!

I'm pretty sleepy now...