You Dropped Your Camera? Big Deal! If you think dropping your camera is bad, imagine if it cost over $500,000, and you dropped it at 180 mph.

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You Dropped Your Camera? Big Deal!

Nov 10, 2016 08:56:53 #

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

If you think dropping your camera is bad, imagine if it cost over $500,000, and you dropped it at 180 mph.

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Nov 10, 2016 09:27:24 #

Jamers Loc: Michigan

jerryc41 wrote:

OUCH!!

Nov 10, 2016 09:30:46 #

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Pretty amazing that after a mile plus freefall it hit at "only" 180mph.
Mars is one tough destination.

Nov 10, 2016 09:42:26 #

tsomes Loc: Fargo ND

That would be an Oops! with a capital O. There have been so many successful Mars landings that people forget how incredibly difficult to achieve a soft landing on it. I think I once read that about 50% of the attempted landings on Mars have failed. Maybe that number has gone down a bit over that last few years as we have gotten better at it, but it is still not an easy thing to do.

Nov 10, 2016 10:36:13 #

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

BassmanBruce wrote:

Pretty amazing that after a mile plus freefall it hit at "only" 180mph.
Mars is one tough destination.

Physics is complicated. You have a thin atmosphere, on the one hand, but weaker gravity, on the other. The terminal velocity for earth is about 125 mph.

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