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In about a week's time NASA's Curiosity mission will attempt to land on Mars.
Having just watched a documentary on this, - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01llnb2/Horizon_20122013_Mission_to_Mars/ although I hope I'm wrong, I can't imagine it will succeed where so many previous (and simpler) missions have come to grief.
Here's a shorter link :- http://www.space.com/10379-big-step-mars.html
I'd like to hear what other people think its chances are. It would make a nice change to have a thread where folks can express their opinions and in a week or so be proved righrt or wrong, instead of the endless, open-ended, irresolvable debates that we're used to.
Also, is it worth the money? $2.5 billion buys a lot of school texts or food for hungry Africans. Personally, I feel it would be better to be poor but informed than rich and ignorant, but maybe others have a different take on this.
Anyway, this is a challenge to all you know-alls. Will it work or not? Put those reputations on the line.
Having just watched a documentary on this, - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01llnb2/Horizon_20122013_Mission_to_Mars/ although I hope I'm wrong, I can't imagine it will succeed where so many previous (and simpler) missions have come to grief.
Here's a shorter link :- http://www.space.com/10379-big-step-mars.html
I'd like to hear what other people think its chances are. It would make a nice change to have a thread where folks can express their opinions and in a week or so be proved righrt or wrong, instead of the endless, open-ended, irresolvable debates that we're used to.
Also, is it worth the money? $2.5 billion buys a lot of school texts or food for hungry Africans. Personally, I feel it would be better to be poor but informed than rich and ignorant, but maybe others have a different take on this.
Anyway, this is a challenge to all you know-alls. Will it work or not? Put those reputations on the line.
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