onlooker wrote:Just in a connected aside, does anybody here believe in worm holes or warps, that theoretically could transport us to far off regions of space in very little time? Oh I think it also referred to as the Rosenberg bridge
onlooker wrote:Just in a connected aside, does anybody here believe in worm holes or warps, that theoretically could transport us to far off regions of space in very little time? Oh I think it also referred to as the Rosenberg bridge
On Monday, November 26th, following a six-month journey across hundreds of millions of miles of deep space, NASA's InSight spacecraft will arrive at Mars in suitably dramatic fashion, hitting the top of the planet's atmosphere at 12,300 miles per hour—several times faster than a speeding bullet—shortly before 12:00 pm PST (3:00 pm EST).
If all goes as planned, it will take InSight (short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport) just seven minutes to decelerate completely and alight on Mars' surface. The planet's atmosphere will do a lot of the work, aided in turn by InSight's parachute, descent thrusters, and shock-absorbing legs. If NASA can pull it off, it will be the agency's eighth successful landing on the red planet.
NASA and others will be broadcasting news of InSight's approach, entry, descent, and landing all day long. Here are the best places to keep tabs on Monday's proceedings in person and online.
Watch in Person
From the NASDAQ Screen in Times Square, to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, to the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany, live viewing parties will be taking place all over the world on November 26th. NASA has compiled a handy list of no fewer than 80 such events, complete with addresses and contact information. The agency is updating the list daily, so if you don't see anything near you today, be sure to check back in the days ahead. You can also check with your local museum to see if they'll be hosting a landing party. If you've never been to a watch party for a Mars landing, we highly recommend it. After all: They don't happen very often!
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
KaiserJeep wrote:I never believed that we would solve our population problem by moving off the Earth. All that space colonies do is preserve our human species - and all our crop species and food animal species, during a deady period as the planet goes through a worldwide reset of the ecology, and rids itself of a surplus of humans.
Cog wrote:A manned expedition to Mars faces some rather daunting challenges. A launch window opens up only once every 26 months when the Earth and Mars orbital alignment is favorable. Given current technology, a trip would involve nine months in space, three months exploring, and another nine month trip home. Now we know astronauts can survive at least a year in zero gravity because its been done on the space station.
But you have to carry everything you need. Food, water, fuel, consumables of all kinds. Take a long time to get all that mass into low earth orbit. Now I suppose if you could pre-stage fuel and supplies into Mars orbit or put it on the Mars surface itself, you could solve several of these issues. Still, this is not a 3 day trip to the moon. Very expensive undertaking when robots can do a lot of what we want on Mars.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
eclipse wrote:Wouldn't the greatest act of conservation being to get some ecosystems off world and establish them in O'Neil cylinders or even on a terraformed Mars?
eclipse wrote:Wouldn't the greatest act of conservation being to get some ecosystems off world and establish them in O'Neil cylinders or even on a terraformed Mars?
eclipse wrote:Such an outpost will initially only be the place for the pinnacle of an industrialised society
eclipse wrote:if the new wave of agricultural tech kicks in with algae to vat-grown meat
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