NASA Mars Rovers, wow.

Booner! said:
black matter at last... got any links?

Im interested in this new Atom smashing process they have been conducting. Several have been built now and apparently they achieved a good result from colliding 2 nuclei of atoms of gold together creating a force of a black hole for a mear fraction of a milli second. (hard to remember what the exact number was but it had a lot of 0's lol)
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I believe you mean 'dark matter' its believed to hold the Universe/Galaxies together. There's also dark energy that's forcing them apart (both still theories) There's a lot of evidence that dark matter does exist but its not matter as we know it. IE: Atoms.

Man made black holes? Do you mean antimatter?
 
manoz said:
I can't wait till they send something to Titan's surface, or have they already?Probably not there yet!
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That'll be huygens. They crashed (or more accurately splatted) it into Titan early last year. One of it's two radios failed, but they were almost a redundant pair, so plenty of data survived. It was certainly spectacular watching the descent. They had images all the way down, including after it landed.
 
While its all very interesting. Id rather we tried to get to the likes of Europa. Where there's water chances are theres going to be life. Mars just looks like the moon with an atmosphere to me.
 
Space is still awesome. It's such a shame that it doesn't seem to ignite the same passions in people as it did say 40 years ago; I think we need another space race to really kick things off and get public support for some big spending and big research.

I agree with the Bill Hicks quote above, too. Direct 40% of the current US military budget to NASA, the other 40% to social security and keep the rest "just in case"--they'd still have a bigger budget than anyone else in the world :)
 
Edinho said:
While its all very interesting. Id rather we tried to get to the likes of Europa. Where there's water chances are theres going to be life. Mars just looks like the moon with an atmosphere to me.
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the problem with water on places like Europa is that its probably a few 1000 yards under a massive ice sheet.... theres no way a robot will be able to get to it.
 
I forgot all about those rovers. :(

Those little fellas are doing a great job but I intend to be alive when the first man sets foot on Mars. :)
 
Edinho said:
While its all very interesting. Id rather we tried to get to the likes of Europa. Where there's water chances are theres going to be life. Mars just looks like the moon with an atmosphere to me.
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Europa if by far my favourite moon. I agree this it will be very interesting to get some sort of probe or lander there. As you say Overlag, the Icesheet is likely to be very thick, however as the ice will be created from what was once liquid under the ice sheet. This hopefully means that if there was any microbes etc, then some of them will have been churned to the top.
 
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These images are deceiving - that boulder is only 40cm tall and 5m away from Spirit! It looks so much bigger in the pic (Like the size of a person, whereas if there was one in the picture, the rock would come up to their knee!)
 
Berserker said:
That'll be huygens. They crashed (or more accurately splatted) it into Titan early last year. One of it's two radios failed, but they were almost a redundant pair, so plenty of data survived. It was certainly spectacular watching the descent. They had images all the way down, including after it landed.
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I remember some commentators saying that we might get to see seas of methane in the pics from the descent, but the resulting pics were a little bland and dissapointing. Was still cool though.
 
nero120 said:
I remember some commentators saying that we might get to see seas of methane in the pics from the descent, but the resulting pics were a little bland and dissapointing. Was still cool though.
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Fossil fuels on Titan?

'We are certain that the Titanians are developing WMDs, and that is why we must invade....'
 
nero120 said:
These images are deceiving - that boulder is only 40cm tall and 5m away from Spirit! It looks so much bigger in the pic (Like the size of a person, whereas if there was one in the picture, the rock would come up to their knee!)
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It's not deceiving to me, it looks 40cm tall.
 
A mate of mine has a fantastic job working for MSSL, designing and building some of the elctronics for space science - there's stuff he's designed and made himself floating around up in space on Solar B and Cluster amongst others, and he gets to use the 'Hi , I'm a rocket scientist' line at parties too.....
 
nero120 said:
I remember some commentators saying that we might get to see seas of methane in the pics from the descent, but the resulting pics were a little bland and dissapointing. Was still cool though.
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Cassini produced pretty good evidence for lakes on Titan. JPL article.
 
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