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. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/a-japanese-company-is-about-to-attempt-a-moon-landing/ Also, dealing with dust is hard: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/chinas-first-mars-rover-may-have-run-into-trouble-on-the-dusty-planet/ This has already been covered: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/06/dust.html Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

This aerial photo was captured December 2022 by the Mars Recon Orbiter:   source: https://static.uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076769_1380.jpg   Here was the original:     info: https://www.uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076769_1380 The links include some higher res, lower compression images.   Sometimes something is just fun, probably not worth all the money spent but still fun :) Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm  

. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/nasas-insight-lander-has-probably-phoned-home-for-the-last-time/ https://twitter.com/NASAInSight/status/1604955574659035136 I mentioned this before: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/06/dust.html But all we need is one of these: No one at NASA has ever watched: The Jetsons ? Marina Koren mentioned a different NASA Mars probe: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/12/perseverance-captures-mars-dust-devil-sound/672495/ The bottom line for Insight is that it didn't get a visit from a dust devil. Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm    

but not today  I was going to watch the Artemis 1 mission launch this morning (Monday 8-29-2022) but it got scrubbed.   I remember watching the space missions on TV during the 1960s.  Somtimes there were holds during the countdowns and a lot of conversation from the CBS hosts like Walter Cronkite (who always seemed to be talking to former astronaut Wally Schirra) to fill the empty air time. source: https://i2.wp.com/www.anecdotes-spatiales.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Schirra-Cronkite-Apollo-17.png I'm excited about space exploration in the 21st century.  Hopefully it will also interest school kids.  It did when I was a grade school kid in the 1960s and kept a scrapbook on the Gemini and Apollo programs.  I can remember wanting to be an engineer in the 6th grade.  And solving the currently impossible engineering problems that will crop up along the way will be the task of NASA and their contractors.  NASA and the contractors will also need new e...

 You know how it is, you are completely clean.  You take a rocket ride millions of miles to the next planet, Mars.  Landing is OK. landing was A-OK   Your mission is going pretty well until:  Dust storms !  It happened to NASA's lander, Insight: that rusty brown color of Mars But didn't Hanna-Barbera solve this problem almost 60 years ago ? 10-7-1962 Jetson's Night Out (yes, I was 7 years old when I saw this) Just a little whisk broom on an arm, how hard could that be to add to the next lander ? Seriously, maybe after landing people on the moon again and Mars we can finally solve the problem of cleaning here on earth.  Because if it isn't solved there's gonna be trouble up there.  Some speculate that any time outside will be dealt with with an extension of the Japanese custom of removing your shoes, just remove your entire suit and leave the dust in the airlock. Incidentally, as far as football, why don't we have robot pro football ? The Ringers i...