Last info I read said it would NOT be over the USA......

I even sent my, sadly deseased now, cat's name.


Squeakie Cat

Stupendous.

I always enjoy his updates. You get the sense that as each year passes they will get busier and busier.

Makes you wonder what we might see at Gale Crater....

They have already decided to risk climbing, they want to try find evidence of clays. If Oppy breaks a wheel, she breaks a wheel, hopefully right on top of the clays.....

Where are are going after Cape York ?

I've been confused for a week or two as I was expecting Cape York to be a big hill, it's like a gentle rise really.

I just realised today that that's Endeavour Crater in the distance.



That's exactly what confused me.

Is the plan to climb to the top of the mound ?
What is the hight of the crater wall from the landing elipse ?

I just saw that, cool. Who would have thought it would have so many moons ?

The focus is getting better.
The Clangers definetly live there.

He went on vacation during approach ?........

It was a wrong assumption by me the thrusters would be running full tilt all the time.

I assume safe landing could be made with less than 100 % thrust, and any extra needed then would be available ?

I have few of questions about the desent stage thrusters.
Are all 8 used in the landing ?
Why are the thrusters in each pair pointing in different directions ?
What happens if the thrust is not enough ?


Thanks.

Also I read the thrusters run at 107 %, which seems an odd figure to me.

Seems to be down.

It makes you wonder when they were glad there was no damage on inflation...........

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I am curious, apart from maybe changing the inflation pressure, what the purpose of that ?

Well if its one of those days when you spill something on your keyboard, your going to need to evolve gills pretty quickly !

The article states that the lowlevel part of the radar testing has been done, this was for high level to the start of low level, with differing I guess swing angles that might occur.

I don't think it really matters where Kepler looks, if it finds possible Earth like conditions then multily that by the barely unimaginable size of the Universe, and the chances of other life existing goes up.

Wow 165 meters.

Looks like a tie down bolt to me, to be removed before flight.

Is Oppy driving to the high point we see, then turning right ?

Reading that will make the accomplishment of a safe launch, landing and sucessfull mission even more remarkable.
Thats putting a positive slant on it .

I was looking at that earlier and was having the same thoughts.