Mars Landing - Pictures

[Pundit]

Kuhani,

Inawezekana kwa sababu ya population explosion na ma global warming na mchanganyiko wote huo wakati huu ndiyo wakati wa kufikiria kufanya haya mambo kuliko wakati mwingine wowote.

Vipi tukiambiwa mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa ya dunia hayawezi kuwa contained? Itabidi tutafute dunia nyingine a la "Battlestar Galactica"

Kuna namna ya kuji engage katika haya mambo bila ku undermine priorities nyingine.Kwa mfano kutumia mabilioni ya dollar kujaribu kuwa na fool proof plan ya a possible catastrophe due in a 100 years wakati watu wanakufa leo sio busara.

Lakini hii haizuii watu kufanya mental exercise, au kutumia theoretical physics, au kutumia research facilities and funds zilizopo sasa hivi kwa sababu ya vitu vingine na kuona kama matunda yake yanaweza kutumika katika hili zoezi (e.g nuclear propulsion engine etc)

 

[Sanda Matuta]

i guess there must be a reason behind all this planets thing,God ought to have a reason to put so many planets and galaxy.
Lakini wazungu wanatumia vipawa na akiri zao vizuri mno kutaka kujifunza mambo yaliyo beyond capability,nadhani ile AYA kwenye misahafu ya dini kwamba "tumemuumba bina ADAMU kwa mfano wetu" wao wanaitumia vizuri kwani urge yao yakutaka kujua siri nyingi ndio itawafanya sikumoja baada ya sisi wa Afrika kufikia maendeleo yao wao wahame humu duniani kuamia kuho Mars au kwengineko.

wakati sisi bado tunafikiria kupaa naungo na kwenda kulimisha majirani zetu

 

[Azimio Jipya]

i guess there must be a reason behind all this planets thing,God ought to have a reason to put so many planets and galaxy.

Mkuu I know they have confirmed ..to have many Galaxies across the universe.

But as you have stated..many planets...!!! Mkuu nyingi ni zipi?

I know, we are only certain with the Planets in our solar system...sina habari kuwa kuna Nyota nyingine ..Imedhihirika kuwa na Planets. I mean the subsatences which go arround the STAR!

Ninajua kuwa ni Nyota yetu..JUA so far ndio ina Planets...

Please correct me .... or Update me..about anyother palenets apart from the thiose found on The SUN the closets Star to our EARTH!

 

[Azimio Jipya]

Reversed priorities!

May be one day the efforts and the results ...obtained from these missions ... will be used to empower human development !

 

[Waridi]

Huwa Nawaza Sana Where Is The End Of Sky? Yaani Baada Ya Pluto Kuna Nini, Nini? Kuna Mambo Mengi Hatujui, Na Hapo Ndo Mungu Anaitwa Mungu

mfumo wetu wa jua ambamo pluto imo, ni kidot kidogo sana katika anga la ajabu la myazi Mungu, yaani sayari zetu 9 na jua lake, ni sawa na puje ya mchanga baharini, tumia google earth uone mambo, the sky/space is endless

 

[Pundit]

Azimio,

Kuna kitu kinaitwa extrasolar planets.

From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet beyond the Solar System. As of May 2008, 293 exoplanets have been detected and confirmed[1]. The vast majority were detected through various indirect methods rather than actual imaging.[1] Most of them are massive giant planets likely to resemble Jupiter, though this is likely to be due to limitations in detection technology. Many more recent unconfirmed detections suggest that much smaller worlds may be considerably more common than previous figures have suggested.[

 

[Kijakazi]

. if we shall be able to diassemble matter to a photon size and then re assemble it again, we can transfer something via these photons and then reassemble it once it reaches to its target.

aisee embu naomba mwangaza hapa una maana gani unaposema kama ninatafsiri sawa kwamba kuweza kuvunja vunja maada ktk ukubwa wa photon, hii inakuwaje hapa..... hebu mwage elimu lkni TAFADHALI USITUMIE KINGEREZA KIGUMU KAMA HUWEZI KUANDIKA KISW JARIBU KUANDIKA KTK KIINGEREZA KIRAISI ILI NIELEWE (ambalo ndilo lengo langu)

 

[Pundit]

the sky/space is endless

As a colorful figure of speech employing exaggeration for effect, yes.

As fact, no.Space is bounded upon itself and finite, not infinite.

 

[Azimio Jipya]

Azimio,

Kuna kitu kinaitwa extrasolar planets.

From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet beyond the Solar System. As of May 2008, 293 exoplanets have been detected and confirmed[1]. The vast majority were detected through various indirect methods rather than actual imaging.[1] Most of them are massive giant planets likely to resemble Jupiter, though this is likely to be due to limitations in detection technology. Many more recent unconfirmed detections suggest that much smaller worlds may be considerably more common than previous figures have suggested.[

Pundit.

This isgreat news to me ...let me go through this..!

 

[Pundit]

Azimio,

According to estimates using The Drake Equation (ona hapa) at the very least, using very conservative input there are about 10 technological advanced civilizations in our galaxy.A technologically advanced civilization is defined as one that can use radio signals.

There are at least 100 billion, possibly 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.If we go by the conservative value of 10 advanced civilizations per galaxy thats 2 trillion advanced civilizations.More civilizations than three times the number of people on earth.

And I am not even talking of biologically and mentally developed civilization with no radio level technology.

The spoiler is that dark matter seem to account for as much as 90% of the mass of all these galaxies, so the true figure would go back to 200 million civilizations, still very high.

The Milky way alone has some 300 billion stars, and it is not even one of the large galaxies.Some estimates have the number of stars at around 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 power 21)

And our sun is a medium star size known as a yellow dwarf, so most of these stars are bigger than the sun!

 

[Msanii]

wakati wenzetu wanacolonize sayari zengine sisi tunahangaika kuiba senti za kutufikisha huko........

 

[ThinkPad]

Just because we've landed on Mars, it doesn't mean that the challenges are now over.

In fact, there are a lot of things that have to go just right on that first day.

(Peter Smith) I think the biggest challenge we face is the surface of Mars.

Nobody knows what the surface of this arctic region is going to look like

at the level that we're going to be interacting with it.

(Deborah Bass) Right after landing, we've got to make sure that we get our solar panels deployed.

(Joel Krajewski) There's two of them -- one on each side of the lander -- and they open up like a Chinese fan.

That's probably the most critical thing on that day.

Because if we don't have solar arrays, we don't have power; if we don't have power, we don't have a mission.

(Deborah Bass) Also critical are deploying the camera and the robotic arm.

Without the camera, there's no way we can have a quick understanding

of what the environment around us looks like.

And without the robotic arm, we can't start digging for our science samples.

Phoenix is looking for habitats on Mars -- places where life could exist, or could have existed in the past.

We know that life needs three things to exist:

It needs an energy source, like sunlight; it needs water; and it needs organic molecules.

That's molecules that contain carbon, oxygen, hydrogen.

We believe that if they're there, they're likely going to be beneath the ground, and likely to be in ice.

The ice is not at the surface -- it's not this shiny ice skating rink set of ice.

It's gonna be a dirty mess of soil and ice mixed together, kind of like Alaskan permafrost.

(Joel Krajewski) We expect to be able to dig down as deep as about a half a meter, or about a foot and a half.

(Peter Smith) There's gonna be a real gradient and exploration from surface to ice that has never been done before.

(Deborah Bass) That ice is going to be hard as concrete. So getting down to that ice, and getting a sample is going to take some time -- something we don't have a lot of.

(Peter Smith) Time is of the essence when we get to Mars. We only have a few months to do all of the science we want to do.

(Deborah Bass) A point will come in the fall when the sun will permanently set, and there won't be enough solar energy hitting the solar panels to continue to power the lander.

We are, in fact, working against a clock.

As winter advances, the north polar ice cap is growing,

until it gets closer and closer to our landing site -- and eventually, our lander with be completely entombed in ice.

So we face a lot of challenges on the surface of Mars, but the dedication of the team is there

, and it's worth it because the discoveries are going to be so amazing.

(Peter Smith) For us scientists, this is the beginning of our chance to really try and understand what the truth -- the scientific truths of the arctic region of Mars are all about.

(Joel Krajewski) We've never dug into ice; we've not had instruments like this on Mars before -- that can detect the organics like these instruments can.

(Peter Smith) What's more thrilling as a nation -- as a world -- than finding another world that perhaps also contains some form of life?

Our mission is just a stepping stone in that ultimate search, but it's an exciting part of the search, because we're going from finding water to finding a habitable zone.

The next step will be to find life.​

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[Dua]

Mars lander flexes its robot arm

Nasa's Mars lander Phoenix has unstowed its robotic arm - the key tool in its mission to test the red planet's soil for the building blocks of life. The 2.35m (7.7ft)-long titanium and aluminium extension will dig below the Martian topsoil to the water-ice which is thought to lie just beneath.
The next step will be to test the arm's four joints to be sure it is in working order before digging into the soil.

Phoenix touched down successfully on Mars' northern plains on 25 May (GMT). Matt Robinson, from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, said: "Yesterday we sent commands... down to the lander to unstow the arm, and today I am ecstatic to let you know that it was successful. "The robotic arm is now unstowed, it's out of its launch restraints." After a health check that tests the robotic appendage at a range of warmer and colder temperatures, a camera on the arm will be used to look under the spacecraft to assess the terrain and underside of the lander.

Phoenix carries seven science instruments​

The robotic arm will later dig into the icy layers of Mars' northern polar region and deliver samples of both soil and ice to instruments on the lander's deck for analysis. Phoenix is set to investigate the planet's geological history and search for the chemical building blocks which could support life. The spacecraft has also transmitted a 360-degree panorama of its frigid Martian environment. "We've imaged the entire landing site, all 360 degrees of it. We see it all," said the mission's chief scientist Peter Smith, from the University of Arizona, Tucson.

"You can see the lander in a fish-eye view that goes all the way out to the entire horizon. We are now making plans for where to dig first, and what we'll save for later." Phoenix is an apt name for the current mission, as it rose from the ashes of two previous failures. In September 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft crashed into the red planet following a navigation error caused when technicians mixed up "English" (imperial) and metric units.
A few months later, another Nasa spacecraft, the Mars Polar Lander (MPL), was lost near the planet's South Pole.

Phoenix uses hardware from an identical twin of MPL, the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander, which was cancelled following the two consecutive failures. The probe was launched on 4 August 2007 on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Phoenix landed further north than previous missions​

In days to come the big question might be answered, is there somebody there?

 

[Pundit]

At least 200 million civilizations, according to estimates from the Drake Equation.

It remains to be seen.

 

[Azimio Jipya]

At least 200 million civilizations, according to estimates from the Drake Equation.

It remains to be seen.

This is current development.

I have to go deep ..to see what this Drake Equation..works.!

200 million civilazations..? is a lot!!!

And

If that is the case ... It worth going on with the search..! who knows ..if it happens and we establish some sort of contacs with even one of the civilization... you can not guess what they can help to our planet!!?

I dont think .... if all this is wastage!!

And where do you begin the search?..ofcourse from the closer systems....like Mars mission etc!

I dont think if this is the wastage..of resources.

 

[Dua]

Lost tribes in Brazil

Men from an isolated tribe point arrows toward the sky from their home in Brazil's Amazon jungle as a small plane snaps photos from above. The tribe is among the last on Earth that has had no contact with the outside world, Brazil's National Indian Foundation, or Funai, said.

The photos, taken earlier this month, show "strong and healthy" warriors, six huts and a large planted area. The tribe's camp is in a protected area along the Envira River, near the Peruvian border.

The foundation does not make contact with such tribes but seeks to protect them. "We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist," said Jose Carlos Meirelles Jr., an expert in uncontacted tribes for Funai.

Illegal logging is pushing the tribe from its homeland and threatening its way of life, said Survival International, a group that advocates for the rights of indigenous people. Of the more than 100 uncontacted tribes in existence globally, about half live in the Amazon in Peru or Brazil.

"The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct," Survivor International Director Stephen Corry warned. Sources: AP, CNN


While we are struggling to go to Mars we have got these aliens spotted recently in the Amazon juggle. Fascinating ………………… stuff.

 

[Azimio Jipya]

Men from an isolated tribe point arrows toward the sky from their home in Brazil's Amazon jungle as a small plane snaps photos from above. The tribe is among the last on Earth that has had no contact with the outside world, Brazil's National Indian Foundation, or Funai, said

This is fantastic.

 

[Dua]

Examining the Red Planet

The craft ascended into space aboard a rocket, above, on Aug. 4 2007 at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

A photo taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Mars Lander parachuting to the planet's surface May 25. It was the first time a spacecraft took an image of another craft landing.

An illustration depicts the spacecraft's landing on Mars, which followed a 422-million-mile journey.

A more detailed image shows one of the spacecraft's three legs sitting near a large patch of what could be ice, which had apparently been covered with a thin layer of dirt.

Scientists hope find and test ice to see whether it contains the organic compounds that are the raw ingredients of life. The vehicle is equipped with a backhoe-like robotic arm, depicted here in an artist's rendering, which can dig into soil and search for ice under the planet's surface.

This is one of the first color images that the lander took of Mars' surface. The landscape resembles that of Earth's permafrost regions, with patterns in the soil that may be related to freezing and thawing.

 

[Azimio Jipya]

A photo taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Mars Lander parachuting to the planet's surface May 25. It was the first time a spacecraft took an image of another craft landing.

Oh..It was great tech... to get all that organised.

Dua it was a good picture...

Hawa jamaa hawajatoa datas zozote kuhusu kuwepo na maji..and the posibility of life activities?

 

[Yo Yo]

Sasa hawa jamaa baada ya kufika huko sisi tutafaidika nini?