Trailer: Seven Minutes of Terror
June 25th, 2012
These people are fracking insane, while still being unbelievable geniuses. If they pull this off, the general reaction will probably be, “Oh, another Mars rover.” This trailer, however, shows how utterly fantastic the challenge is. If it works, everyone should be impressed as hell.
Can’t believe it’s been 36 years since the Viking landers.
That was chez cool, too. I remember the brief flurry of news about the lab experiment indicating life, too.
But I don’t get why people say they want to like go on one-way missions to Mars.
Looks like a pretty dead place.
Now, if their were Mayan-like ruins all over the place I’d kill half the planet to be on the first manned mission, but if I wanted to see a bunch of lifeless rocks, there’s plenty of sites on Earth for that.
@Troy
My uncle is a geologist. Let me say, these folks are a strange breed, but he never, ever, tires of looking at rocks. His is an endless fascination. I don’t see him being the type to go on a one way trip to Mars to look at the rocks there, but he has gone to some strange places: Eithopia and Patagonia two of the more distant and stranger locations.
Planetary Society has some great articles about the EDL sequence here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/06221711-how-curiosity-land-part-1.html
And they are throwing a EDL party in Pasadena that weekend. But work needs me to catch bats that weekend. Sigh.