Meet the Martians

[Doc Dutch]

It's on NASA Live, nasa.com

BTW, whatever is happening to Perseverance is happening right now but we won't know until nearer the top of hour.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/ti...ps/navigation/
Moving safely from rock to rock or location to location is a major challenge because of the communication time delay between Earth and Mars, which is about 20 minutes on average.

[Doc Dutch]

I combined web based evidence with the fact that the hundreds of engineers I worked with over three decades did not call themselves "scientists".

You would know this if you actually worked as a professional engineer.

I don't have your experience, but that's my understanding too.

Different professions as expressed in Star Trek. In this case, the difference between research and application.

[MAGA MAN]

Doctors are also scientists.

[Doc Dutch]

Deorbiting now.

[Doc Dutch]

Doctors are also scientists.

Disagreed. They can be scientists since medical doctors in research are scientists, but don't tell me a country doctor setting broken bones and delivering babies is a scientist by doing his job.

Same goes for engineers per se as you should know. Are you saying you're an engineer involved in research such as testing materials or experimental designs? In that case, I'd agree you are a scientist.

[MAGA MAN]

Disagreed. They can be scientists since medical doctors in research are scientists, but don't tell me a country doctor setting broken bones and delivering babies is a scientist by doing his job.

Same goes for engineers per se as you should know. Are you saying you're an engineer involved in research such as testing materials or experimental designs? In that case, I'd agree you are a scientist.

Having worked in the field since the early 80's, I have a different opinion.

[Doc Dutch]

Seven Minutes of Terror

[Doc Dutch]

Having worked in the field since the early 80's, I have a different opinion.

Let's hear it.

[Phantasmal]

NASA's Perseverance rover on course for Mars landing this week, to search for signs of past life

NASA's $2.4 billion Perseverance rover will plunge into the red planet's atmosphere Thursday for an automated white-knuckle landing.

If it survives the "seven minutes of terror" from atmospheric entry to its rocket-powered touchdown in Jezero Crater, the nuclear-powered Perseverance will proceed on its mission to search for evidence of past microbial life in deposits left over from a now-vanished lake.

"Perseverance is our robotic astrobiologist, and it will be the first rover NASA has sent to Mars with the explicit goal of searching for signs of ancient life," said Robert Zurbuchen, NASA's chief of space operations.

"It will build upon what we currently know from our previous rovers, orbiters and landers. And it will attempt to answer an age-old question that has eluded humanity for generations: whether life has ever existed elsewhere beyond our own planet, our Earth."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbs...-perseverance/

I’m watching coverage! I love stuff like this.

[MAGA MAN]

Let's hear it.

Again?

[Cypress]

NASA is reporting that Perseverance survived the decent and is on the surface!

[Phantasmal]

It landed successfully! Woot woot!

[Phantasmal]

NASA is reporting that Perseverance survived the decent and is on the surface

This is so great, can’t wait for pictures and sounds.

[Cypress]

I’m watching coverage! I love stuff like this.

One of my most riveting memories as an adolescent was seeing the very first pictures of the surface of Mars from the Viking lander. Electrifying!

[ThatOwlWoman]

This is so great, can’t wait for pictures and sounds.

I have goosebumps!!!