Mars Rover Perseverance

[Simon]

This is amazing.

[Simon]

Although I think that's Curiosity

[Mito Man]

Sounds like the mic is broken

[mik]

That’s epic

[Barry]

I watched the live feed last night. Incredible achievement, again. Landing a rover the size of a Mini on Mars. The numbers involved on the approach alone was staggering. 8mins before touchdown it was 2000kms away.. 5.4km/sec... then 10g deceleration..

[Simon]

But actual Perseverance tweets:

[RobYob]

Sounds like the mic is broken

The boom mic was in the climate orbiter.

[Swervin_Mervin]

Landing a rover the size of a Mini on Mars.

A Metro?

[Mito Man]

Can’t find much info on this but did the sky crane just fly off and crash into the scenery somewhere else? I’m hoping it had a camera and sent the video back to the rover before crashing

Also how are they going to recollect the samples, now that’s going to be interesting.

Either way I’m sure we’ll just have Elon Musk strap some nutter on a one way rocket to Mars soon enough

[Barry]

Landing a rover the size of a Mini on Mars.

A Metro?

Dropping a Metro on Mars would have been amazing They actually compared it to a MINI, so yeah, size wise its impressive.

@Mito Man The skycrane device picks nearest to north and flies off about 1/3 mile. It had cameras on it.

Samples will get packaged and sent up into Mars orbit, collected by later missions or something.

[Mito Man]

The sample thing is fascinating, just did some more reading on it. Apparently the samples will get dumped on the ground, then another Rover type vehicle will go collect them. It will then load them into a rocket, fire rocket into orbit round Mars where it will meet up with the main spaceship which will return it all to earth.

They better be packed with go pros

[duncs500]

I hope the drone picks up good footage, that could be cool to watch.

[Mito Man]

They filmed the whole landing and it’s on the Perseverance Twitter page

[mik]

They filmed the whole landing and it’s on the Perseverance Twitter page

Add a link you great walloper

[Mito Man]

But I'm busy watching the livestreeeem.

[Mito Man]

For the lazy cunts

[duncs500]

So cool.

[Simon]

Just amazing..!

[Beany]

Must have been utterly bonkers being a back office/tech on this - the guy who designed the robot/skycrane separation system, the lass who did the QA on the telemetry logging platform - watching a bit of your work calmly plant itself on another fucking planet, in smooth HD video, as if para-rocket-dropping a literal ton of some of the most advanced remote operated equipment man has ever built into another atmosphere was as normal and straightforward as popping down to Asda to pick up some milk.

[Simon]

Must have been utterly bonkers being a back office/tech on this - the guy who designed the robot/skycrane separation system, the lass who did the QA on the telemetry logging platform - watching a bit of your work calmly plant itself on another fucking planet, in smooth HD video, as if para-rocket-dropping a literal ton of some of the most advanced remote operated equipment man has ever built into another atmosphere was as normal and straightforward as popping down to Asda to pick up some milk.

My boss wrote some of the code that operated the cargo bay arm on the space shuttle (the exact derivative escapes me).