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Originally Posted by Daradon
Heheh, but they are so cute in their matching outfits.
I dunno, with a name like Phoenix I was expecting a different ending, lol.
Serious question for a moment. Why do they keep sending probes and vehicles to Mars? Are they still looking for signs or water or life? Is it general exploration? Are they trying to pinpoint one of those face rocks?  I remember lots of people getting excited for the landings of these vehicles but not much newsworthy every coming back once they land. |
Looking for water mostly yeah, if they want to send humans to Mars it would be SO much easier if we could use some resources that are already there, having to launch everything up out of our gravity well and take it all with us makes it waaaay harder.
If there's fairly easily mined water there then that's worth knowing.
And just general science too, the only planet we know a huge amount of details about is our own, being able to do chemistry, geology, etc on another planet is VERY useful.
In a way I would prefer seeing us trying to go to asteroids first, use robots to mine the heck out of them... get an infrastructure up there so we can build stuff without having to launch it.