Exploring Mars

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Doug Ellison, a space exploration addict talking at the 2008 Milton Keynes Science Festival. Doug ex,plains what Mars is, why it is so difficult to land there and how to prevent a multi-million pound space craft from a crash landing. Doug talks about the NASA Mars Pathfinder mission and its most recent discoveries. Find out why landing on Mars is as hard to do as throwing a coin from the UK and making it land on top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris... and other interesting facts.

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[FiliberkeNys]

Very interesting a superb talk indeed!

[wallasky]

Nice presentation!

[7to777]

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[happinesson]

well explored mars..a planet closely like our planet earth which have been damage by us human..and here is mars, waiting for us.

[snow3262]

Man, straight captivating! I actually found this because I googled "Im about to graduate college..." cause I really don't know what to do. And I saw your post about how this is what your passion is, but not a well paying job. Trust me, you will make it BIG if you keep it up! I dont know how your are able to remember so clearly every minute detail, or how you obtained so much media about the mars trips! I came to watch a minute, and instead watched 58, thank you (this is to the presenter, btw)

[snow3262]

Man, straight captivating! I actually found this because I googled "Im about to graduate college..." cause I really don't know what to do. And I saw your post about how this is what your passion is, but not a well paying job. Trust me, you will make it BIG if you keep it up! I dont know how your are able to remember so clearly every minute detail, or how you obtained so much media about the mars trips! I came to watch a minute, and instead watched 58, thank you

[sbergman27]

I've never quite understood why they didn't put wipers on the MER solar panels. Fortunately, MSL will use an RTG for power.

[PhilAEG]

A great Lecture, could be a yearly tradition replacing the BBC Christmas Lectures ;-)

[dav5tar09]

very nice! loads of pics!

[atomdongle]

awesome 5*