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 Well, Insight is on site.
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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.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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Pretty darn cool to say the least 
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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Loquacious
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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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"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
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Bar Shake
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"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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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.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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