Mars Missions

ngatimozart

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The Curiosity Mars rover had managed to collect 32 Martian rock samples by using a drill attached to robotic arm. Pereverance rovere mission still keeps searching for signs of past life on the red planet by analyzing the chemical, mineral, physical and organic characteristics of the rocks.
How about providing links when you are posting stuff like this. You have been here long enough to know the rules.
 

kato

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People don't want to work for Tesla or SpaceX because they pay mega bucks, but because of the mission and the energy of the place. They get a decent wage, generally, but the primary drive is the mission.
Actually from what i hear from Grünheide (Tesla Gigafactory Berlin) and a couple other Tesla-owned factories over here neither do the people working there get a "decent wage" nor would a majority of them recommend Tesla as an employer (seriously - 54% of German Tesla employees supposedly would not recommend working there).

And among applicants - the few they get, most job offers there have been open since last year, and even on skilled manual labour they get single-digit application numbers per job... - opinions on Tesla and its processes are a whole lot worse. About the friendliest word i've been reading about that is "unprofessional" and "chaotic".
 

StingrayOZ

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Yes, I didn't mean to imply Tesla was a great place to work or that their wages are attractive. I imagine he will have all sorts of problem in Germany, where he has been able to just push through in the US or China.

I've heard much the same things, very chaotic and they burn people out. But people are motivated by the mission. While I think Elon has strengths in many areas, he is also very flawed. Not sure I would want him as a boss. He seems to need to learn things the hard way.

Ideally you would extract the positives and remove the negatives.
 

bearnard19

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Looking forward to some new Mars rover mission that is gonna be lounched next year. The mission is called the Rosalind Franklin rover mission . This ‘ mission will attempt to search for life on Mars and explore martiat surface. You may find more information about the mission I`ve mentioned with the help of the link I`ve mentioned.
 

ngatimozart

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Looking forward to some new Mars rover mission that is gonna be lounched next year. The mission is called the Rosalind Franklin rover mission . This ‘ mission will attempt to search for life on Mars and explore martiat surface. You may find more information about the mission I`ve mentioned with the help of the link I`ve mentioned.
Generally we are aware of the mission, but when you are providing specifics you are required to post the link to that source. It's in the rules - read them.
 

Sandhi Yudha

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Many of us still remember the Marsrover Perseverance and the Marshelicopter Ingenuity. They arrived in februari 2021 on Mars.
The original plan was to let Ingenuity fly for around 5 times, but in the end Ingenuity flew 72 flights on Mars. Now after Ingenuity's blades are damaged, Perseverance will continue to explore our neighbourplanet alone.
 
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In the spring of this year, the lander/rover phase of the ExoMars mission got a reprieve when Thales Alenia was awarded a contract in April to restart development of the lander for the ExoMars mission ready for launch, and the ESA in May signed a memo of understanding with NASA regarding the second phase of the ExoMars mission. The invasion of the Ukraine caused the ESA to end cooperation with Roscosmos, so the Kazachok lander from which the Rosalind Franklin rover would have disembarked may have to launched by Russia from an Angara rocket because the Angara A5 is being tailored as a replacement for the Proton, and the Rosalind Franklin rover was originally to have been launched from a Proton rocket.

 

Sandhi Yudha

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After driving over some rocks on Mars, the Curiosity rover has discovered an abundance of pure sulfur inside the crushed rocks.

The six-wheeled rover has spotted sulfur on Mars before, but only in a mixture with other minerals, including magnesium and calcium. Pure sulfur, an odorless element that forms in very specific conditions that planetary scientists hadn't linked to the rover's location, appears to be infused in many rocks across the region, according to NASA.


Curiosity landed in 2012 on Mars, and in 2021 Perseverance joined Curiosity in the exploration of Mars.
 

Sandhi Yudha

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Some great news.

NASA's InSight, which was a stationary lander during operation, touched down in the Elysium Planitia region on Mars in November 2018. It maintained its mission for four years and, armed with the first seismometer to be taken to the Red Planet, it detected 1319 marsquakes.

And now, after analysing the data of these marsquakes, scienists can confirm that enough water is found beneath Mars' surface to cover the planet with a whole ocean. The ocean is buried between one and two kilometers underground.


 
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