Category: Mars


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August 16th 2022

The new heavy lifter,Orion rocket in the Artemis program started its journey at the cape on the 16th of August 2022.

The launch is scheduled for the 29th of August 2022 and will propel the Artemis 1 with its crew module around the Moon and return to Earth make a reentry unmanned and without the risk to the four persons ‘lifes’ that will crew Artemis 2 to a landing on the moon and return in 2024 or 2025.

Mission Mars

The ultimate goal always couched in scientific experiments and knowledge gathering is to use the moon as a base to continue on to deep space with more than likely its first visit of human beings to the planet Mars

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Insight has landed

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Monday November 26th the 8th successful Mars landing by NASA was concluded with the transmission of a photo. The Craft has a 2 year mission and unlike rovers will do it from the same place. The lander is straight and level in what appears to be a flat plain. It will transmit data to two Nano satellites that followed the craft from earth. The 7 month trip from earth is part of a  commitment to learn the secrets of rocky planets such as ours . A  mole ground penetrator hammer will slowly punch a hole down while measuring temperatures to depth. The lander will also listen for geo disturbances such as quakes. Mars is estimated to be 4 billion years old, a little older then the earths 3. 6 billion and is considered relevant to knowing secrets of our type of planet. There are 4 rocky planets in our solar system Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. Uranus has been demoted to a planetoid, the remaining are gas giants.

Blue Planet

Mars is imagined by some to have once been a blue planet with lakes and water bodies that were lost in time. The Earth keeps its water and atmosphere by the effect of the magnetic field on it in part. Gravity and the weight of clouds also keeps the sun from burning off the planet.

On this Day: November 28th 1785

The Hopewell treaty noting  Cherokee land’s

                                                

TGIF- spring ahead time change…

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2 AM March 11th daylight savings time.

Time goes ahead an hour at 2 AM on Sunday March 11th 2018. Daylight savings time returns to the clocks of British Columbia and will stay ahead until  standard time returns November 4rth 2018.

On this Day: March 9th 1974

The Mars 7 flyby fails and misses Mars with lander.

Mars or bust, some time.

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Yesterday the private space corporation Spacex sent its Falcon heavy rocket into space and placed a payload in space ( a cherry red tesla sport car owned by Elon Musk).
On this Day: February 7th 1907

The Falcon heavy rocket has nearly three times the payload capacity as the retired space shuttle. With 27 engines and two rocket boosters that successfully landed after use. The rocket is the most powerful in use to day. Not since the days of the Apollo program has a heavy lifter been used in this league.

The risk was great in the mission and the odds were 50/50 of a successful launch according to Musk.

Yesterday’s exciting and admittedly risky launch, SpaceX says, could mean game over for its private space company rivals. The Falcon Heavy will provide the United States a heavy-lift capability in space not seen since the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo era. source earth sky news.

The old 100,000 dollar Tesla roadster, was released and sent on its way to  No word on any way of controlling the vehicle with its space suited dummy (named Starman) behind the drivers wheel or if  it would survive a trip to Mars. It is apparently in orbit around the earth.

A trip to Mars mission with the heavy lifter should take 6 months to cover 54.7 million KMs trip ,which includes and an asteroid belt will be in its path.

The mission is deemed experimental and risky. Look for a landing of the main rocket making it reusable to measure this flights success.

There is a recording playing in the Tesla the song by David Bowie,  Life on Mars.

Mud march for women’s suffrage.