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Watch NASA’s Perseverance Rover Land on Mars! This Thursday 18 Feb :-)

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    Anon220806, Feb 20, 2021
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  2. oss
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    Yeah I saw that today and wondered, almost has a pumice like quality but these would have been sitting at the bottom of a lake for a long long time and since then will have experienced dust storms for likely billions of years, facinating.
    oss, Feb 20, 2021
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    They are publishing more including some video with sound apparently.
    oss, Feb 20, 2021
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    The pumice might have been transported from further afield. Pumice can float in water (on Earth that is).
    Anon220806, Feb 20, 2021
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    I hope they release a video of Perseverance descending taken by one of the other two spaceships up there. (I do like the word "spaceships" :D)
    aposhark, Feb 20, 2021
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    Ah yes of course, we had a piece for bath-time when I was a kid :D
    oss, Feb 20, 2021
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    They have some kind of video of the descent Mike.

    I think it might be the latter stages though.
    oss, Feb 20, 2021
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    Still haven't been able to find that video, Jim :(
    aposhark, Feb 21, 2021
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    Me and the 8 yo have been following up on the fever being generated by the exploration on Mars right now:

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    Anon220806, Feb 21, 2021
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    They are still processing the data Mike, they have not finished yet.

    This was an announcement of what they had built into the systems for the landing, while the data transfer rates are quite high from Mars it still takes time to turn that data into pretty pictures and movies :D

    When they got data back from the Pluto mission the other year it was coming back slower than a 1980s dial up modem :lol:
    oss, Feb 21, 2021
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    Anon220806, Feb 21, 2021
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    oss, Feb 21, 2021
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    Please show your 8 yo this, John:

    aposhark, Feb 22, 2021
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    aposhark, Feb 22, 2021
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    Wild NASA image shows Perseverance rover just before Mars touchdown (cnet.com)

    This is the article I read this is coming out today sometime Mike.
    oss, Feb 22, 2021
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    aposhark, Feb 22, 2021
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    5FEB4446-7E76-4951-B9C7-A7AAFB216FAF.jpeg This is one man’s interpretation of the view from Perseverence. Looking across the fan and beyond to the crater rim.
    Anon220806, Feb 22, 2021
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    Anon220806, Feb 22, 2021
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    Anon220806, Feb 22, 2021
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    These images depict the landscape adjacent to Perseverence. They give a sense of scale to the landscape including the delta features.
    Anon220806, Feb 22, 2021
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