hour 6 zach i liked it because i didnt know that when the rover landed itwas in all these balloon things that kept it from getting destroyeed

hour 6 zach i thought it was neat because the video went threw all the stages a real roket would

Are you kidding? All of that stuff was completely possible! That really happened. They sent two rovers and one of them was a failure, but the other one was a mission success. One thing that was unrealistic was when it took off and it was going really fast the second it took off. That wouldn't happen because it takes a little bit of time to build up that speed. Also a part that would have been tricky for the designers to overcome was when those airbags inflated and it was bouncing along the martian surface it could have hit a large boulder or something that would have thrown it off it's bouncing course, or possibly even punctured one of the airbags. It would have been hard to manually control it too because it takes like an hour for those radio waves to travel to mars and back to earth, so it would have had to been pre programmed for most of it, except around boulders and obstacles that they couldnt account for before the mission. At those parts it would have been remote controlled. What do you think? - Drew Z.

i think that this is true also because every time they launch a roket with a rover in it, it would hve to do somting like this each time

hour 5 haley. i think this is possible, because if you seen what all we've accomplished, we could do something like this. We also have done many similar things like this, but if we do it, it may take a couple of years to make it perfect.

i think that this is also possible because they have to do this and they launched two of them already. the first one had somthing go wromg and the second one did the same but was fixed by itself. i also think that it would be hard to find out a way to make air bags that are strong enough to withstand all that bouncing. then also find a way when it rolls and if it hits a rock to find out that it wouldnt pop

The comment that drew made above me about the speed of the take off, in my opinion i think that it is realistic because it has so much power stored up inside the rocket that it almost explodes resulting in "popping" of the ground. In this video I think that the large green thing about 2 minutes into the movie that launched off was the giant fuel tank, it has to be that big to hold hundreds of gallons of fuel. Also i didn't understand why the rocket was heading toward the sun??? I do not think that the "balloon" idea would work because it could pop or bounce off course. another reason is because there are large sandstorms on mars that could easily blow it off course. I think that it would not take an hour to send one message to the rover because it only takes 6-7 minutes for sunlight to the earth. since mars is a whole lot closer to earth than the earth is to the sun. i do think it is realistic how the rover studied the rock on mars.

-Leit Jay

I agree toatly agree with Zach i thought it was amazing how the "balloons" protected the mars rover. Im sure those "balloon" like protecters were very deribale and high tech. i dont think nasa would just throw out a multiy million dollar rover and have it get detroyed. Does anyone agree with me?? john R. eighth hour

I am not positvely sure if this would work because wat if the rover while it is traveleing into space gets hit by somthing and they would have to make alters to the base and make sure it has enough gas. They should test this numerous times before they acctually send it or else it could be very unsucssessful and would have to retry it. Also i agree with Leit on his balloon thery i think that the balloon might not be strong enough to wistand on mars and while in space.

mine was the 1 up 2 sorry ms ratzel = ) jake hr 8

I also thought that this movie explain how the rocket "sheds" the layer off i thought that was interesting because there was a lot of thing they needed to get it up and i guess they did not need it to get down.
john R hour eighth

another intersesting thing was how i guess the rover was taking a sample of the rock and scanning it and the way it had such perfection to perfectly line it up and drill it. did anyone else think that?? john r hour eight

i wonder how they made this movie i thought it was rely interesting. john r eighth hor