The Mars Exploration Rovers “Spirit” and “Opportunity” were sent to Mars for what was planned to be a 90 day mission. 5 years later they are still roving the surface of Mars, making new discoveries almost every day. This video celebrates the extraordinary success of these “Intrepid Explorers”.
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WTF?…. we can build a rover that lands on Mars & roam for FIVE YEARS … but a new home only has a 1 year warranty , a new car 5 yr / 100,000 mile warranty …. and most electronics in store 90 days manufacturer …… ???>… WE ARE GETTIN’ SCREWED !!
@webkinzgirl12344321 There’s a new one???
The next rover must have an onboard feather duster to clean the solar panels every once in a while.
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Does that mean i can move there now lol
…but really when can i
(cry) these rovers are like my favorite of them alll,these i feal like their being alive!ooh I LOVE THEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM (hug) (cry) (party) now the Oportunity has a b-day-6 YEARSS AND 116 DAYS!the spirit is stuck and will be put to sleep till the spring (cry) I LOVE EMMM!!!!!!!!!!
these robots should be the first robots to been put on human honor list
under the sand is ice, there was seas but then it froze, storm came and now ice is under sand!
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During a sand storm, the PV only get 1 percent of the sunlight. However, the rover has been exploring for five years. The design seems to be fantastic providing exploration of Mars. The rovers have made Mars seem familar and provided a human perspective. The Rover has proven to be a very capable vehicle.
How did the robotic drill work on the Mars two rovers?
Did the Mars rover design make it, prone to getting stuck in sand and rock terrain?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but this is one of the most solid testaments to both the relevance of space exploration, and the beauty of engineering. Made my eyes water.
they should start planting on mars and mabe it will one day have a blue sky like ours.
Satellites can be upgraded to protect them from the solar flare magnetic fields, but not from radiation. Note that no one lives on the Hubble telescope; human protection from solar flares is a different matter. Deadly radiation can destroy DNA and biological matter, which satellites are not made of. Currently due to financial difficulties, NASA won’t have a moon-ready rocket sooner than 2020. Technology may not be a limiting factor, but the global economy and politics are.
There are multiple rocket designs for long-journeys: Nuclear, solar-wind, etc. Yes, if all of Earth’s societies focused solely on space missions we could get to Mars sooner. But the fact is no one is solely interested in space. Wars are wasteful and costly, but that’s where lots of political interest is in unfortunately. Also note that having a design does not necessarily mean it’s completely feasible to produce.
The polar ice caps on Mars are solid carbon dioxide (dry ice), not water. There is likely water ice underground though for microbial life. Mars never had a large moon like Earth – only the tiny non-spherical moons Phobos and Deimos. A magnetosphere needs 3 things to exist: 1. A fluid electrically conducting interior 2. Convection of fluid 3. Relatively rapid planetary rotation. In the past Mars had a molten core but due to its small size most of its internal heat is gone – no more magnetosphere.
satellites like the ancient hubble can be upgraded to protect from solar flares why couldnt a modern rocket built of modern materials not 198o’s metals and electronics… yes there would be a lot of difficulties but there were with overshooting the moon using the theory of general relativity, so what… it can be done and will be by 2025 no matter your doubts or not im just saying we should of gone sooner not the planned 2025 mission…
yes we do Werner Von Braun did have a rocket design that would be able to go to mars, as it is where the nazi’s believed they were from and hy he wanted to get in space and pushed for a manned mars mission… not to mention a joourney to mars would cost less than the 626 billion the army got this year for afghanistan, hmmm help fight a civil war and destabilize the taliban but leave bin laden alive or go to places we havent been look for fuels,metals, building materials that arent on earth
considering the polar ice caps on mars are melting theres water, not to mention when it had its own satellite or “moon” it had life at least as in vegetation as it would have had a magnetosphere strong enough to keep the atmospere from blowing away in strong solar winds- which means theres oil, nat gas, not to mention other possible undiscovered fuels! there are many reasons to go…
That’s a good plan, but that only solves the problem of materials. There is still the problem of expense and human safety. Sending one rocket costs billions of dollars, let alone many rockets regularly to resupply Mars for a year or more. Spacecraft spending a long time in space also risk irradiation and solar flares. Just Google or search “universe today mars landing approach large payloads” for a good article with more explanations on this subject.
@noircat I think your mistaken. Why couldn’t supplies be sent in advance of a manned mission. The manned craft would catch up to the supply ship, dock either transfer the supplys or remain docked till reaching near mars space. Then release it . There would be the opportunity to make this craft a lander as well allowing more supplies for extended stay on the surface.
yeah i know what your saying but we know the human cannot live in unhabitable planet… beside even if we find life on mars, we will do nothing except observe their living life. I still say we study more about gliese due to habitable planet, water(might be) and might have living species
The Gliese 581 system is 20+ light years away, and we can only observe with better and better telescopes to search for organic matter. Mars on the other hand is actually within reach of rockets and rovers, and we have only barely scraped the surface of Mars – both figuratively and literally – that there is still much to learn about Mars. Life on Mars, if it exists, would most likely be found way under the surface as endolith extremophiles.
Not really…we don’t have the technology or practice to sustain humans in space for the several month-long journey to Mars (the ISS gets resupplied regularly while a journey in one rocket wouldn’t get that advantage). Also once we get there we would have to build a base, which would require tons of materials that one rocket can’t carry. Such a journey will be tremendously more expensive and risky than sending rovers.
god we should stop looking for life in mars… nothing to see there anymore.. lets talk about the gliese 581c