RSS- The battle for Ocheretyne
- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
The video footage of the parachute deployment, heat shield ejection, sky crane maneuver and touchdown were worth waiting for. Extraordinary to see recognizable features like sand/dust dunes during the descent and then the rocket crane viewed from Perseverance safely on the surface. We gotta get people there next. Sic itur ad astra.
I was going to leave my comment there, but in the light of your most recent post I feel moved to follow it up. If we do remain deaf to the soft words of the summer grasses and destroy our Paradise here on Earth, the irony of ironies would be that the pinnacle of our civilization’s achievement – an autonomous Mars rover – would live on. Perseverance would continue to go about its business, oblivious to its creators’ fate, diligently collecting samples from the barren surface in the search for signs of life. Samples never to be retrieved. Our epitaph.
Perhaps in another million years a more resilient civilization might send a probe to our shattered world and rejoice in the discovery that it was once populated with “intelligent” life. I wish I were gifted with the ability to turn these thoughts into a poem.
Such an achievement deserves more than a single comment, the creativity and technical excellence is in the finest tradition of those who created the Apollo missions. A thought provoking posting Barbara Ann, thoughts to ruminate on over time.