/sci/ - Science & Math

Next year we are landing a nuclear powered laser armed jeep on Mars.

Shit is gonna be so cash.

http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

its not really that hostile an environment

front view, latest image.

Opportunity.

>>2030007
>doesn't know its retardedly illegal to launch anything remotely nuclear into the sky, especially space

Fuck yeah American technology

and they say our stuff Is unreliable

>>2030010
for robots?

Hell, yes it is.

soil, finer then sand, dust really, heat cycles that fluctuate retardedly, dust storms, dust devils bigger than any f5 tornado on earth, ect. ect.

Previous image was nav cam, here is the FRONT cam.

Its driving in reverse because one of its front wheels got messed up. you can see the markes.

Yet, it marches on.

>>2030012


then you should let the NASA engineering team know, because the rover already has the nuclear batteries in.

get on it anon! you need to inform NASA of this terrible mistake

triumph of mankind my pale yet supple ass...

...maybe they wouldn't mind designing a way for the next rover to...idk...clean off it's own god damned solar panels..

>>2030037
I'll write them a letter right away

>>2030035
rear cam

>>2030041


Also, don't forget to tell them to update their mission website that describes how the rover is powered.

http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/rover/energy/

>>2030040
It wasn't deigned to go on this long.

microscopic

>>2030012

just launch the parts...the bots can assemble it to operational status on site later

>>2030037
A radioisotope thermoelectric generator isn't exactly a nuclear reactor...

>>2030056

not even remotely nuclear?

>>2030056


who other than your retard self mention 'nuclear reactor' in this thread?

panoramic

i love rovers

GOOD LUCK OPPORTUNITY TEAM.

The other guys....seemed to lose there........

TEAM SPIRIT.

YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(couldn't resist.)

where are you getting these pics?

>>2030007

>>2030103
>>2030103
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

JUST explore around.

>>2030053

they launched both spirit and opportunity before the programming was finished. they just turned them on during the trip and uploaded all the code while en route. but we saw what happened when spirit wouldnt boot on day 1....

go spirit, go opportunity!

>>2030160
spirit is ded ;_;

>>2030040
Man I bet those retards at NASA didn't think of that!

>>2030012
O.o They have done it. What are you talking about?

>>2030035
Watch it drive off a 2 mile high cliff.

>>2030212
you missed
>>2030042
dumbfuck.

It just shows you what NASA can do when they really, really don't want to fuck up and waste $100M again.

robots are cool, but i want to see a moon landing in my lifetime ;_;

>>2030040
FUND IT

>>2030220
Imagine if we gave every dollar religion accumulates and gave it to NASA and they used it to build a rover robot. The fucking thing would be on Mars creating modules for us to live in when we got there right now.

>>2030234
What the fu- why? We have no reason to go back there. We can gather enough info about it already.

>>2030235
not all religions make money, and in any case it's not like those that do are somehow stealing funds from potential nasa missions

>>2030235
Fuck that would be cool.

I'd rather something like that was an international effort, though.

>>2030240
because it's incredible. i watch the footage of the apollo 11 landing and can barely stand it, thinking about the millions of years of progress that brought man to the lunar surface. hell, bush wanted to send us to mars, but it doesn't seem like that's going to happen for at least a decade. wish i had been around in 69 :(

>>2030235

No need to rob them blind, just remove tax exempt status from churches. The explosion of revenue would then be allocated entirely for science, thereby justifying the existence of said churches. Lemons --> Lemonade

>>2030244
You missed his point, imagine all that money in NASAs hands.

>>2030261
That would be awesome. But how churches work.. it will never happen.

>>2030261
now this makes sense. taxing churches would bring in so much fucking cash. too bad christians monopolize the government.

>>2030244
"If <Divinity> didn't want for your money to be confiscated and used as NASA fundings he would have stopped us"

etc. Religions are (mostly) retarded and serve no real purpose outside the psychological relief of knowning that there's something beyond death, be it reincarnation, salvation or endless spaghetti plates.

There are far more relieving activities that require less spending. then again one could argue about the fact that some religion funds go into humanitarian help and other non-religious, actually useful projects.

all in all, i'd rather have a short, intense and sometimes unhappy existance than a long, peaceful life filled with probable lies about what will be of me after i die. so yeah, more money for science, less for individual relief.

>went to space camp when I was 12
>learned about how the rovers were outlasting their predicted lives after a year
>still kicking 6 years later
fucking awesome.

>>2030289
chill out, dog, i'm an atheist. you don't have to tell me about how pointless the church is. but you miss the fact that practically all of our elected officials are religious in one way or another, and will continue the grand tradition of treating the church as being above the law. as long as the usa is predominantly religious, religion will continue to abuse the usa, no matter how many vitriolic paragraphs you write

>>2030296
>he got to go to space camp

>>2030307
so did i, deal with it

>>2030299
that makes me feel quite good about living in Italy.

Then i get reminded who's the president here and i wish i could move to fucking Canada.

If NASA got all that money we could probably start thinking about mars colonization or *GASP* FTLT.

>>2030317
>>2030299
>>2030289

*sigh* as nice as that thought is...its a really unethical approach. Freedom of choice.

Some people need religion to get by, and those people should be able to spend there money how they want. If they want to give it to a church, so be it. And churches to help at a local, and to an extent world level.

>>2030012

What the fuck nigger best be trollan? List of spacecraft using Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators
Cassini
Galileo
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
Viking I
Viking II
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 11
etc...

but I am hoping you are a troll

>>2030040

Trust me they have spent a shitload of effort in finding dust repellent materials to coat the solar panels with.

Run a brush (or anything) over anything on that the dry ass surface of mars and you have so much static the whole motherfucker is coated in more dust then your grandmothers snatch.

NASA's dead, long live space exploration. The future lies in the private sector.

>>2030289

Are you kidding me /sci/ a wonderful JPL/rovers appreciation thread fouled by fucking ignorant niggery.

>>2030040


Space dust sticks and gets into everything.

Specially moon dust. The Apollo space suits displayed at the Air & Space National Museum still has moon dust all over it after 40 years. It won't come off.

>>2030392
turning space exploration over to the free market? WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

>>2030410
SUDDENLY, AVATAR...

but where humans win....like...reality.

>>2030409
They need to get some women to do the job.

>>2030493
>women
>job

isn't galileo also way past its expected lifespan?

i can't imagine how awesome it would be to be on the science team for those projects. you started out, you had hopes, you were worried that something bad would happen en route and you'd have nothing to show for it

then the landing, the deployment, everything's looking great you guys, and you have, what, 90 days expected lifespan? so you try to gather as much data as possible

and then... the machine keeps working. and you count your blessings and you keep gathering data.

and it keeps working.

and now it's YEARS later.
and you're still analyzing stuff from ANOTHER WORLD.

I can't even fathom the feeling of scientific achievement these guys must have.

no, I'm not high. yet.