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Japanese Mars Probe Failing
Anonymous Coward writes "After months of silence and a week of hopeful half-truths, Japanese space officials have finally confirmed that their Mars-bound Nozomi probe is teetering on the brink of failure in its five-year quest to explore the Red Planet. The Nozomi orbiter is one of four spacecraft that are due to converge on Mars in the next two months. The other three probes -- the European Space Agency's Mars Express and NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers -- are still on track and in good working order, according to the latest status reports. Mars Express is due to enter Martian orbit on Christmas Day and send a British-built Beagle 2 lander to the surface, while the NASA rovers should arrive on Jan. 3 and Jan. 24."
...will it commit harakiri?
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
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Pity - the more craft we send there, the more we'll all learn.
Simon.
Physicists get Hadrons!
So hopefully the British rover will have tea ready for us when we get there. Jolly good.
"I only speak the truth"
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if its martians shooting them down... martians suck! these things take 5 years to get there! the hit like one out of 10 things we send! who can't aim well enough to hit something when you have 5 years to try?
-You're wasting your time. Alfador only likes me.
Everything we send to Mars disappears. Im starting to get scared...
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
Two points:
...and why, yes, this is rocket science.
1. If you even know who Art Bell is, then you listen too much.
2. Mars is a very long way away. A Very, Very long way away. It's moving, too, at a good clip. This distance allows more to go wrong on the way than going somewhere closer, like the moon, by an exponential factor.
(One more reason why Mars is no place to raise a kid. Ooooo, I'm channeling Shatner!)
m-
You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
When will we stop sending probes and start sending missiles?!!
it's not like this is brain surgery!
[off to the brain surgery forum... "c'mon guys...it's not like this is rocket science!"]
This is going to be the best episode of Batttlebots ever!
Doc: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".
Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.
Doc: Unbelievable.
Because it's a Nozomi Express Probe, I can't use my JRPass on it!
They should have launched a Hikari first.
sulli
RTFJ.
I guess I'll just stick with their VCR's and TV's.
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They knew the OS was failing and yet they still went ahead and used it.
Please can someone enlighten them about our good friend Tux.
Thank you.
I'm starting to get the impression that there is some sort of major hazard somewhere on the way to Mars.
Yes. It's called human engineering.
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
Shouldn't that be "five-year mission"? This is space, after all. The final frontier.
come on, guys -- it doesn't take a rocket scientist to.... uh..... nevermind.
Don't underestimate the power of Hello Kitty!