A SPACE PROBE has gone to mars, and has arrived safely in orbit. within minutes, responding to commands from earth, it will start to slow down and change direction, heading towards a pre planned landing site on the surface.
Responding to commands and programmed software instructions the probe will land gently on the ground on its wheels, and start rolling all over the place, sending video and other info back to earth for years.
at least, so we hope. one half of everything humankind has tried to land on mars has crashed, so keep your fingers crossed. the ones that didn't crash sent back amazing, incredible pictures and information.
this one will too. what we really need on mars are people,as many people as possible, a permanent human settlement on mars. we need to pay for it by liquidating some of the world's military expenditures. it wouldn't take much.
this would simultaneously unite the world behind a great project, reduce the military threat, expand human human knowledge, and establish extraterrestrial human habitat, eggs in another basket.
so what's not to like about investing in mars?
oh, the excitement of landing on the moon, all those years ago. can we ever capture that feeling again?
the rover, "Curiosity" is the size of a small car, rides on six wheels, cost billions of dollars, and it would really really hurt us all for it to crash...now it gently lowers itself towards the surface, retro rocket burst below, floating parachute above.
gently, nearly silently it settles upon the surface of the red planet, and we, all of us, are in business.
Bb
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