Nasa's next Mars rover will be called Perseverance
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Originally posted by airsoft guy: Everything has got cool sounding names, like Q invented it, except Drill.
Yeah, they have paid attention to marketing and 'brand awareness' and apparently are expecting a lot of public interest/support.
The names sound like they came out of a PIXAR movie - like a new movie with Wall-E having mad-cap hijinks with Moxie the Oxygen generator, Rimfax the ground-penetrating Radar, Pixl, the spectrometer. . . That is a LOT more appealing than the normal (and boring) 'scientific' names.
Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher
July 31, 2020, 10:10 AM
airsoft guy
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Originally posted by Hound Dog:
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Originally posted by airsoft guy: Everything has got cool sounding names, like Q invented it, except Drill.
Yeah, they have paid attention to marketing and 'brand awareness' and apparently are expecting a lot of public interest/support.
The names sound like they came out of a PIXAR movie - like a new movie with Wall-E having mad-cap hijinks with Moxie the Oxygen generator, Rimfax the ground-penetrating Radar, Pixl, the spectrometer. . . That is a LOT more appealing than the normal (and boring) 'scientific' names.
"Rimfax" sounds like something you do with your butt and a copier.
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Originally posted by Will938: If you don't become a screen writer for comedy movies, then you're an asshole.
July 31, 2020, 10:23 AM
Hound Dog
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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
"Rimfax" sounds like something you do with your butt and a copier.
Yeah, I noticed that it almost sounds like a dirty/shameful act one doesn't talk about in polite company.
Still, Rimfax is a LOT better name than NLMcDHFARFWGPR,* which is often how the scientist types name things. I think after the Mars Opportunity Rover saga "My battery is getting low and it's getting dark," the scientific community took notice. It is hard to get excited about robot probes (nobody would have cared nearly as much if Buzz and Neil had been robotic probes landing on the moon). By 'humanizing' them, it is a lot easier to generate interest.
*NASA/Langley/McDonnell-Douglass High Frequency Alternate Resonating Free Wave Ground Penetrating Radar - I just made that all up.
Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
February 18, 2021, 02:57 PM
gw3971
Well done NASA/JPL!!!
February 18, 2021, 03:00 PM
mod29
It's already sending back photos!
February 18, 2021, 03:22 PM
gw3971
have they said where it landed?
February 18, 2021, 03:48 PM
Hound Dog
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Originally posted by gw3971: have they said where it landed?
Mars, I think. . .
According to NASA.gov,
Some 28 miles (45 kilometers) wide, Jezero Crater sits on the western edge of Isidis Planitia, a giant impact basin just north of the Martian equator. Scientists have determined that 3.5 billion years ago the crater had its own river delta and was filled with water.
Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher
The NASA Perseverance rover landed at Mars' Jezero Crater on February 18 nearly seven months after its takeoff to the Red Planet. Perseverance becomes the fifth NASA rover to ever touch down on Mars after Sojourner, twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity and Curiosity. Perseverance will spend the coming years scouring for signs of ancient microbial life in a historic mission that will bring back samples from Mars to Earth and prepare the way for future human visitors.
numerous videos at link
illustration:
February 18, 2021, 06:56 PM
46and2
Awesome (successful landing on Mars).
My home PC has been named WOPR since the 80s.
February 18, 2021, 07:36 PM
mr kablammo
Two words... MARS! BATTLEBOTS!!
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
February 18, 2021, 07:38 PM
83v45magna
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Originally posted by 46and2: My home PC has been named WOPR since the 80s.
That is cool. I may steal that.
February 20, 2021, 06:04 AM
stkfox
I love this project and its intent but did anyone else acknowledge the strange juxtaposition between a technologically advanced, multi-million dollar exploration of another planet with the masked scientists behind the mission control consoles seemingly unable to combat an ailment that is 99% safe here on this planet?
February 20, 2021, 06:17 AM
ruger357
I’m just glad it’s not named George Floyd or blm or some other stupid shit.
I wouldn't let anyone do to me what I've done to myself
February 20, 2021, 08:53 AM
nhtagmember
check out this photo - it was taken from the descent stage looking downward prior to landing...
February 20, 2021, 09:10 AM
NK402
I'm sure I'm not paying enough attention but why are the photos I've seen so far been in black and white?
February 20, 2021, 09:38 AM
airsoft guy
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Originally posted by ruger357: I’m just glad it’s not named George Floyd or blm or some other stupid shit.
Oh look, politics, just what we need!
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Originally posted by NK402: I'm sure I'm not paying enough attention but why are the photos I've seen so far been in black and white?
According to the interbutts, it's because they haven't gotten the good cameras up yet. They're still powering things on and doing checks and whatnot, so the pictures we're getting are from navigational cameras.
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Originally posted by Will938: If you don't become a screen writer for comedy movies, then you're an asshole.
February 20, 2021, 10:17 AM
Hound Dog
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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
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Originally posted by ruger357: I’m just glad it’s not named George Floyd or blm or some other stupid shit.
Oh look, politics, just what we need!
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Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher
February 20, 2021, 11:05 AM
flashguy
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Originally posted by airsoft guy: "Rimfax" sounds like something you do with your butt and a copier.
I think it sounds more like a new medicine being advertised on TV.
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