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36 years on Mars, Mars 3 anniversary
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post Dec 2 2007, 11:58 AM
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36 years ago, on this very same day, 2 December 1971, the Soviet probe Mars 3 successfully landed on Mars. Though it functioned for only 20 seconds and no science was returned it was indeed an engineering success.

The first and only picture from Mars 3 lander. Image Credit : Ted Stryk / strykfoto.org
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Guest_Zvezdichko_*
post Dec 2 2007, 10:33 PM
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Yes, only 14 years after Sputnik mankind achieved a soft landing on Mars!

But... it's December already, it's an important month for Martian Exploration.
For example, tomorrow is 3th December. It's the day when Mars Polar Lander had to land, but the contact was lost. Eight years after that, we still don't know what happened to it.
Then... we have 25th December. It was the day when Beagle 2 was supposed to land... It was also lost...
So, we have several probes (Mars 3, MPL, Beagle 2) which were sheduled to land in December, and all failed. Bad statistics...
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post Dec 2 2007, 11:14 PM
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Perhaps a little bit OT, but not completely...
Today, when looking to last MER images, I was talking to myself once more: "Is incredible, these beautiful pictures are almost realtime shots from the surface of another planet, and they comes daily in the last 4 years!". Same feeling with Cassini gallery...
I really hope this will continue to be the normality in the future, with a continuous coverage through MSL, EXO-mars and other long-duration missions. Besides scientific return, I think is important to easily access such "alien" visions, it helps us (poor humans) to have a wider breath, avoiding humanity to collapse on herself... smile.gif
Maybe I'm a dreamer, any though on that?


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- Zvezdichko   36 years on Mars   Dec 2 2007, 11:58 AM
- - Adam   I might be wrong, but wasn't it pretty much de...   Dec 2 2007, 12:12 PM
- - Zvezdichko   Yes. There have been speculations based on this im...   Dec 2 2007, 12:16 PM
- - nprev   A date & an achievement worth noting to be sur...   Dec 2 2007, 01:17 PM
- - Zvezdichko   Yes, only 14 years after Sputnik mankind achieved ...   Dec 2 2007, 10:33 PM
|- - dilo   Perhaps a little bit OT, but not completely... Tod...   Dec 2 2007, 11:14 PM
|- - peter59   QUOTE (dilo @ Dec 3 2007, 12:14 AM) Is in...   Dec 3 2007, 06:13 PM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (peter59 @ Dec 3 2007, 07:13 PM) EX...   Dec 4 2007, 04:28 PM
- - nprev   You're absolutely right, Dilo...we need to kee...   Dec 3 2007, 02:48 AM
- - Shaka   Good, that makes three dreamers at UMSF. How many ...   Dec 3 2007, 05:20 AM
|- - marsbug   QUOTE (Shaka @ Dec 3 2007, 05:20 AM) Go...   Dec 4 2007, 04:48 PM
- - PhilCo126   Wait one minute, a topic on spacecraft lost around...   Dec 4 2007, 06:55 PM
- - PDP8E   MY SPECULATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SOVIET MARS 3 LANDE...   Dec 12 2007, 06:57 PM
|- - vikingmars   QUOTE (PDP8E @ Dec 12 2007, 07:57 PM) Som...   Dec 16 2007, 09:34 PM
- - Phil Stooke   "Its easy…look in and near northern Ptolemy C...   Dec 12 2007, 07:50 PM
- - djellison   So a 400km x 400km search box. 160,000 sqkm That...   Dec 12 2007, 08:02 PM
- - PDP8E   A brief scan of the web turned up these images of ...   Dec 14 2007, 03:51 PM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (PDP8E @ Dec 14 2007, 04:51 PM) A b...   Dec 15 2007, 08:18 AM
- - PhilCo126   Thanks for sharing those photos and only the black...   Dec 15 2007, 05:54 PM
- - PDP8E   We have had 8 more inches of snow today on top of ...   Dec 16 2007, 08:36 PM
- - PDP8E   Happy MARS 3 Landing Anniversary (well, yesterday:...   Dec 3 2009, 10:06 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Resurrecting an old thread... but it seems better ...   Apr 19 2011, 03:54 PM
|- - yurdel   My congratulations on forthcoming anniversary land...   Nov 29 2011, 11:06 PM
- - Paolo   a picture of a Mars-71 lander during impact tests   Mar 18 2013, 07:52 PM
- - volcanopele   Mars 3 hardware may have been spotted in some HiRI...   Apr 11 2013, 05:15 PM
- - remcook   Very nice "Philip J. Stooke from the Unive...   Apr 11 2013, 06:17 PM
- - TheAnt   I've read the text and found that they did the...   Apr 11 2013, 07:39 PM
|- - Zelenyikot   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 11 2013, 11:04 P...   Apr 12 2013, 06:57 AM
|- - TheAnt   QUOTE (Zelenyikot @ Apr 12 2013, 08:57 AM...   Apr 12 2013, 10:00 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Zelenyikot @ Apr 11 2013, 10:57 PM...   Apr 13 2013, 04:42 AM
- - Phil Stooke   I did offer some advice on this, though I had noth...   Apr 11 2013, 11:04 PM
|- - Liss   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 12 2013, 03:04 A...   Apr 12 2013, 11:49 AM
- - Explorer1   It's the 2nd paragraph from bottom on this pag...   Apr 11 2013, 11:11 PM
- - J.J.   One similar feature would be easy to explain away;...   Apr 12 2013, 12:47 AM
- - vikingmars   Phil, As our "International" UMSF cartog...   Apr 12 2013, 12:21 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Darn it, my atlas is now out of date. According t...   Apr 12 2013, 03:39 PM
|- - vikingmars   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 12 2013, 05:39 P...   Apr 12 2013, 07:45 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 12 2013, 11:39 P...   Apr 13 2013, 03:22 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Geert @ Apr 12 2013, 08:22 PM) To ...   Apr 13 2013, 04:11 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Apr 13 2013, 10:11 AM...   Apr 13 2013, 06:17 PM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Apr 13 2013, 08:17 PM) ...   Apr 13 2013, 08:40 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Apr 14 2013, 01:17 AM) ...   Apr 14 2013, 07:48 AM
|- - TheAnt   QUOTE (Geert @ Apr 14 2013, 09:48 AM) Per...   Apr 14 2013, 12:13 PM
||- - vikingmars   QUOTE (TheAnt @ Apr 14 2013, 02:13 PM) Th...   Apr 14 2013, 02:45 PM
||- - TheAnt   QUOTE (vikingmars @ Apr 14 2013, 04:45 PM...   Apr 14 2013, 06:43 PM
|- - bobik   QUOTE (Geert @ Apr 14 2013, 08:48 AM) Per...   Apr 14 2013, 05:52 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (bobik @ Apr 14 2013, 09:52 AM) I d...   Apr 14 2013, 06:22 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (bobik @ Apr 15 2013, 12:52 AM) I d...   Apr 14 2013, 06:28 PM
|- - bobik   QUOTE (Geert @ Apr 14 2013, 06:28 PM) As ...   Apr 15 2013, 05:57 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (bobik @ Apr 16 2013, 01:57 AM) Mak...   Apr 16 2013, 12:51 PM
- - elakdawalla   Good thing you're working on a second book Z...   Apr 12 2013, 06:33 PM
- - tasp   Orientation of the items on the surface was as exp...   Apr 12 2013, 11:17 PM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (tasp @ Apr 12 2013, 06:17 PM) IIRC...   Apr 13 2013, 02:10 AM
|- - Explorer1   QUOTE (tasp @ Apr 12 2013, 04:17 PM) LOL,...   Apr 13 2013, 03:07 AM
- - vikingmars   Solving the Mars 6 landing mistery would be great ...   Apr 13 2013, 05:46 AM
|- - Zelenyikot   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Apr 13 2013, 04:42 A...   Apr 13 2013, 07:04 AM
|- - Bill Harris   QUOTE (Zelenyikot @ Apr 13 2013, 02:04 AM...   Apr 13 2013, 01:16 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Luna 9 had one camera, but Luna 13 had two - but o...   Apr 13 2013, 12:20 PM
- - akuo   It did work, unless the landing shock somehow disa...   Apr 13 2013, 01:41 PM
- - vikingmars   Phil, I know, you are drooling over the Mars 3 ima...   Apr 13 2013, 01:56 PM
|- - TheAnt   QUOTE (vikingmars @ Apr 13 2013, 03:56 PM...   Apr 13 2013, 02:23 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Thanks! Yes, it looks very good. Phil   Apr 13 2013, 02:37 PM
- - Bill Harris   QUOTE (Akuo)It did work, unless the landing shock....   Apr 13 2013, 06:17 PM
|- - akuo   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Apr 13 2013, 06:17 P...   Apr 13 2013, 07:40 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Mike said: "Given the changes in coordinate ...   Apr 13 2013, 06:49 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 13 2013, 11:49 A...   Apr 13 2013, 07:49 PM
- - Paolo   you can see some of the Mars-71 hardware and tests...   Apr 14 2013, 09:52 AM
- - nprev   Geert, that's by far the most cogent theoretic...   Apr 14 2013, 10:58 AM
- - Paolo   a similar cause has also been given for the loss o...   Apr 14 2013, 12:20 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (Paolo @ Apr 14 2013, 08:20 PM) a s...   Apr 14 2013, 03:30 PM
- - Explorer1   No more improbable than installing an acceleromete...   Apr 14 2013, 06:04 PM
- - Paolo   thinking about the foam shell that should have pro...   Apr 15 2013, 11:39 AM
|- - vikingmars   QUOTE (Paolo @ Apr 15 2013, 01:39 PM) thi...   Apr 15 2013, 11:59 AM
|- - Zelenyikot   QUOTE (Paolo @ Apr 15 2013, 12:39 PM) thi...   Apr 15 2013, 05:35 PM
- - Paolo   from all of the pictures and videos I have seen (s...   Apr 15 2013, 01:44 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (Paolo @ Apr 15 2013, 08:44 PM) fro...   Apr 15 2013, 02:50 PM
- - Mr Valiant   Dream come true. After '42' years, we...   Apr 15 2013, 01:47 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (Mr Valiant @ Apr 15 2013, 06:47 AM...   Apr 15 2013, 02:13 PM
- - Mr Valiant   Oh, and on the durability of electronics when it c...   Apr 15 2013, 02:02 PM
- - Paolo   thanks. the find looks more and more intriguing   Apr 15 2013, 05:43 PM
- - dvandorn   Also, depending on the density of the foam used in...   Apr 15 2013, 05:50 PM
- - Decepticon   I hope there are plans for future pictures of the ...   Apr 16 2013, 07:53 AM

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