Perseverance

[Yorick]

Ahem, what's it called?

Scientists have already named the area that includes the bulls-eye. It's called Timanfaya, named after the Spanish national park in Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands.

[David]

One of the first Russian Landers that survived to the surface suffered the indignity of the lens cap melting onto one of the cameras. Most lasted less than an hour before succumbing to the heat and pressure. Typically 90atm and 485C. Hell world and not the Jungle planet of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Not the eden like Perlandra of C S.Lewis either.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Scientists have already named the area that includes the bulls-eye. It's called Timanfaya, named after the Spanish national park in Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands.

I was trying to find the map which shows clearly the various place names NASA have used with the curiosity rover, but I can't seem the locate the one I saw before. They name locations in families and change when they go from one region to another as the rover trundles along. I think they're in the "French" region of the route at the moment and they've just left the "Scottish" one.

I expect they're doing the same thing with Perseverance, so the first few locations it visits will be named after things in the Canary Islands.

[Yorick]

Scientists have already named the area that includes the bulls-eye. It's called Timanfaya, named after the Spanish national park in Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands.

I was trying to find the map which shows clearly the various place names NASA have used with the curiosity rover, but I can't seem the locate the one I saw before. They name locations in families and change when they go from one region to another as the rover trundles along. I think they're in the "French" region of the route at the moment and they've just left the "Scottish" one.

I expect they're doing the same thing with Perseverance, so the first few locations it visits will be named after things in the Canary Islands.

They did a lot of testing in Timanfaya hence the name.
The terrain there is mental.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Which aspect did they test in Scotland I wonder....

[Yorick]

Which aspect did they test in Scotland I wonder....

No idea. Lots of folk here saw them testing here though

[Mr. Dazzle]

Yeah they've used that area for years, since at least the 60s IIRC.

[Yorick]

Yeah they've used that area for years, since at least the 60s IIRC.

Made lots of moon films here.

[Yambo]

Which aspect did they test in Scotland I wonder....

Midge repellent.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Which aspect did they test in Scotland I wonder....

Midge repellent.

And have they found any midges on Mars? Exactly.

[ZRX61]

What's the deal with the bit that slowed it down for landing & then flew away. Is that done or is it the bit they're gonna use to get samples up the part in orbit for return to Earth?

[MingtheMerciless]

The "Sky Crane" is finished, a later mission will visit to drop a collector and then return to Mars orbit and then a later mission will transfer the samples from Mars orbit to Earth.

[Kneerly Down]

Which aspect did they test in Scotland I wonder....

We have historical links to Mars!
http://www.glenelgscotland.com/glenelg-mars.htm

[Mr. Dazzle]

"The tiny Highland village of Glenelg (Earth) "

Love the qualifying brackets there

[slowsider]

Which aspect did they test in Scotland I wonder....

The deep-frying of the eponymous bars?