Japanese Mars Probe strikes trouble

[Joe S]

Another mars probe with problems, but as the Japanese Space program is still in its infancy, perhaps not so surprising. Missions to Mars do seem to have a remakably high failure rate, though (good job I'm not paranoid).

Japan Attempts to Fix Mars Probe

Joe.

[Don Barone]

Hi All:

Once again Mars appears to have claimed yet another victim. The Beagle may have landed but it is non functioning. Ever get the feeling 'they' do not want us messing around with this planet of war ?

After a 6 month journey it is silent. Very strange indeed.

No Mars signal from Beagle probe

I wonder if this one will fair any better.

What can Mars rovers expect?

Cheers
Don Barone

[Charlotte]

The thought "those darn Marshians don't want us there" crossed my mind yesterday as well. They probably gobbled up the Beagle.

Charlotte

[James]

Hello all,

We shouldn't be surprised at all by the frequent loses of space probes on Mars. Tesla had told the world that rarified air was an excellent conductor.

NASA didn't believe him I guess because one of the shuttles trailed a wire as an experiment and got all but one of their on-board computers zapped as a result. We'd not have known about it but one of the astronauts spoke of it during a post flight news conference.

So here we have a rarified atmosphere on Mars - and NASA already agrees Martian dust devils are electrially driven - so what should anyone think is going to happen?

Our question should be - why aren't our dust devils electrical?
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[Charlotte]

I still think the best way to learn about Mars is reading Gurdjieff's Beelzebub, all of it, learning his words and phrases arghh in normal language, a few knowledable posters on various boards, old philosophers scientists, and then NASA scientists, who, it often seems to me are merely guessing at what it is that they find.

Charlotte