The latest Mars lander has landed and is working. In a few days, they will be deploying the science modules that have to go on the ground. There is a seismograph and deep ground thermometer to explore the inner temperature gradient. They also have a project to measure the planetary "wobble" induced by the gravity of the sun and moons.
Pretty darn cool to say the least
I imagine Elon Musk is watching every second of any feed coming back.
That boy is determined to get his next holiday home on Mars.
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It's amazing that they can look at their equivalent to Google maps, decide, "OK, let's set it down right here." And then the computer does exactly that. But then, they used a Z80 to control the moon landings. That was an 8 bit 4 MHZ processor that could address 64K of memory. It could use more memory using a paging register. I wrote probably half a million lines of code for the Z80 and the company I was working for was constantly in a bidding war with NASA to buy enough processors to keep up production.
Anyway, I can see why the computer in the first lunar lander went into overload and they had to finish the landing manually.