Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:14 am
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.
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Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:43 am
Not the eden like Perlandra of C S.Lewis either.MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:35 am 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.
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:05 pm
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.Yorick wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:14 am
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 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.
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:09 pm
They did a lot of testing in Timanfaya hence the name.Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:05 pmI 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.Yorick wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:14 am
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 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.
The terrain there is mental.
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:15 pm
Which aspect did they test in Scotland I wonder....
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:56 pm
No idea. Lots of folk here saw them testing here though
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:14 pm
Yeah they've used that area for years, since at least the 60s IIRC.
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:30 pm
Made lots of moon films here.Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:14 pm Yeah they've used that area for years, since at least the 60s IIRC.
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:11 pm
Midge repellent.
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:18 pm
And have they found any midges on Mars? Exactly.
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:31 pm
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?
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:41 pm
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.
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:17 pm
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:21 pm
"The tiny Highland village of Glenelg (Earth) "
Love the qualifying brackets there
Love the qualifying brackets there
Re: Perseverance
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:55 pm
The deep-frying of the eponymous bars?