Animation of pheonix mars lander

[geoffart]

shame probe is now covered in meters of dry ice. wonder if it will regain consiousness after summer comes?

[geoffart]

well, atleast we know it worked! pics look very simular to this vid.

[clucky]

very cool video. let's hope it works! 1 hour and change left =)

[ActiveStorage]

xD it worked

[ActiveStorage]

wtf?! are u fuking kidding me?!

doing all that just to scrub a fuking soil?!

what a waste

[sgbr101]

lol you don't now alot about this mission do you? stop acting so dumb faggot

[ActiveStorage]

um.. okey xD

this mars mission is better than no mission at all

[sgbr101]

true but this is really important if scienticets are gonna send men on mars in 2030

[rigurat]

looks like an expensive and risky way of getting to Mars. The retro rockets fire just seconds before impact and no airbags to cusion the blow.

[Jordaxe12]

it is very risky the last time they used this way was with the mars polar lander in 2001 and nasa lost contact on descent and never was regained.

[rigurat]

also similar landing system the Viking landers used, and they worked fine. I just hope NASA get this one right this time.

[Heimdall01]

@rigurat The airbag landing system isn’t an option for Curiosity. Weighing in at an impressive 1,654 pounds (that’s three-quarters of a ton), it is the size of an SUV. Airbags large enough to cushion its landing would be too heavy for the Atlas launch vehicle and likely fail under the weight of the air required to inflate them.

[HAL11000]

Weeee!