Mars Perseverance Landing!

Well, I guess the vaccination didn't take.
You got exposed to an education but it did not enter your brain.

(You studied calc and physics but never heard of Euler's number?
repeat the training. or give up.

It's all good.

I hate to sound like an asshole, but this whole live stream show seems soooooooooo staged and rehearsed. This feels like one giant propaganda piece.

Look! Everyone at NASA is just like in Star Trek--look at all the ethnic diversity we have here. Look how smart we all are! Look at how science is the be-all end-all answer to every question in the universe. Scientists are cool and trendy. Oh, and we're all wearing TWO masks because....SCIENCE!

Ugh. This is fucking lame.

The fact that there is probably an army of sheep out there in awe of this whole charade makes me want to vomit.

Not at all. Good question actually.

Mars has no detectable magnetic field similar to earth, so a compass wouldn't work.

There is good evidence Mars may have had a magnetic field in the distant past based upon magnetic measurements of igneous rocks on Mars by the other rovers. It is believed that Mars lost the bulk of its atmosphere when it lost is magnetic field which protects the atmosphere from solar wind.

That’s based on the assumption that the New Horizons probe is actually hundreds of thousands of miles from earth. And I can assure you, it was not. That’s where your measurements fall like a house of cards. Now even the Mars distance isn’t sound evidence...

Not at all. Good question actually.

Mars has no detectable magnetic field similar to earth, so a compass wouldn't work.

There is good evidence Mars may have had a magnetic field in the distant past based upon magnetic measurements of igneous rocks on Mars by the other rovers. It is believed that Mars lost the bulk of its atmosphere when it lost is magnetic field which protects the atmosphere from solar wind.

Absolute bullshit. They probably filmed the “landing” somewhere in northern Canada. The earth is flat, and Mars is a mere celestial luminary, not a rocky spheroid that can be landed on.

Could the flat earthers please refrain from sidetracking this thread.

That’s based on the assumption that the New Horizons probe is actually hundreds of thousands of miles from earth. And I can assure you, it was not.

The education DID enter my brain, for it taught me how to THINK, not regurgitate information. That’s part of the reason I have come to accept flat earth as the truth.

This is bulshit as well in your opinion...

https://twitter.com/_/status/1362469345532633088

It's things like this that make me glad I am at least on the fence and not full on flat tard.

The evidence Astro has provided is more proof than anything any flat earther can provide. You can "you can assure him, it was not" but you can't assure anyone of it. You can't prove New Horizons isn't in space.

Again, I'm not being mean. But I used to spout stupid shit like this all the time. I would just say things without offering anything else. We need to stop doing that.

You mean bringing light to this thread? The majority of what you see in the original post is disinformation...

This is bulshit as well in your opinion...

https://twitter.com/_/status/1362469345532633088

Landing is expected around 3:55 pm eastern, 20:55 UT. Entry, descent and landing will take about 7 minutes, but the one way light time from Mars is a little over 11 minutes right now. That means that by the time we hear the first signal of the spacecraft reaching atmospheric interface, the rover will either have been safely on the surface or crashed for over 4 minutes.

All Astro’s purported proof is based on assumptions, which need the truthful premises of NASA and other space agencies to be true. But those space agencies are not truthful.

Yes, cgi.

Astromut, you are projecting. I have dismantled your house of cards by showing that it is all based on the belief that NASA is telling the truth about all their missions. You say you have measured the distances to their missions...how can you see them when they are over 3000 miles away???

Astromut, you are projecting. I have dismantled your house of cards by showing that it is all based on the belief that NASA is telling the truth about all their missions. You say you have measured the distances to their missions...how can you see them when they are over 3000 miles away???

That is an amateur photograph of the space station transiting the moon. It is independent proof. Just like mine.

Do not make accusations that you cannot support with evidence. Am I clear?

Let’s say you are right. And those two photographs aren’t cgi. That still doesn’t prove that the earth is spherical or that Mars is a rocky spherical body that can be landed on...

NASA will attempt to land the Perseverance rover on Mars today. Live coverage will begin on NASA TV at 2:30 pm eastern, 19:30 UT.

Perseverance shares a lot in common with the previous Curiosity rover, including the skycrane landing system.

Some notable improvements include a zoom lens for the Mastcam (which uses the same KAI-2020CM CCD that I used to film Perseverance departing earth the night after its launch), a system for collecting and depositing samples to be picked up for a later Mars sample return mission, additional science payloads like MOXIE which will be the first in-situ resource utilization test on Mars to generate oxygen. The upgraded cameras and microphones will capture the sights and sounds of the landing to be transmitted back to earth afterwards. It also brings along a technology demonstrator named Ingenuity, a small helicopter drone with large blades to make the first attempt at powered flight on another world.

Here are images I captured of Perseverance's cruise stage headed towards Mars with my telescope and ST-2000XCM (which uses the KAI-2020CM CCD):
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It's the faint object moving from bottom left to top right. Using a simultaneous image from a telescope I controlled over the internet in California, I was able to measure the distance using parallax, and putting together all the data I was able to plot the trajectory and show that it was indeed on-course for Mars:

I did a live stream of my tracking of Perseverance right here on GLP:
Thread: Tracking the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Tonight!

Let’s say you are right. And those two photographs aren’t cgi. That still doesn’t prove that the earth is spherical or that Mars is a rocky spherical body that can be landed on...

I am right. They are not CGI. Accusations like that are highly offensive to the hard work put into capture those images. You don't seem to understand what you're saying or the implications thereof.