The Mars Thread

[RJDiogenes]

The longest 90-day mission in history is all over.

RIP, Oppie.

[Lupine]

It was an extraordinary achievement.

[RJDiogenes]

It seems that Mars missions either fail at the outset or last a hundred times longer than planned.

[RJDiogenes]

Well, this is interesting: The first evidence of a Marsquake, courtesy of the Insight lander. There's no way there couldn't be Marsquakes, of course-- nothing that big could possibly be completely still-- but now there is direct proof.

[Lupine]

If they could land a few more siesmometers they could start studying the subsurface. Maybe see if any pockets of liquid water exist under the surface.

[RJDiogenes]

Yes, indeed. I want to know how warm it is under there.

[RJDiogenes]

I guess we need to change the name of this thread.

[huggle]

That was unavoidable. Since science proved a few decades ago that space is finite after all, and since every quantity must have it's opposite quantity to keep the cosmic balance, nature had to come up with something infinite and invented a source of infinite stupidity.

[Lupine]

^

[RJDiogenes]

Hey, Trump saved the universe, after all.

[Lupine]

If all goes well tomorrow, we'll have something to look forward to in February.

[RJDiogenes]

Sweet. That seems like a very quick transit time. We'll have lots of cool new information to mull over by this time next year. Hopefully that will include more evidence of life, but I suspect that any definitive proof lies deeper than current technology can dig.

[Lupine]

And she's off!

[RJDiogenes]

Yes! It was amazingly hard to find confirmation of that on my news apps. I think it was about 3pm before I finally found something.

[Lupine]

There was some minor communications problems early on, but it looks like that's been fixed now.