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The European Space Agency's ExoMars orbiter has beamed back its first photos and sensor readings of the Red Planet after circling the harsh dust world. The agency's astro-boffins needed some good news: last month, their Schiaparelli Mars lander – which was dropped from the ExoMars craft – smashed onto the Martian surface after …

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  1. Chris G
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    Beers all round

    Glad to see things working well after the 'landing' mistake.

    Did I notice a bloke on a camel on one of those sand dunes?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Beers all round

      Which camel? The one next to the dune buggy?

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Did I notice a bloke on a camel on one of those sand dunes?

      It's a dromedary. Sheesh!

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    3. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
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      Re: Beers all round

      You say failed landing of Schiaparelli, I say successful demonstration of lithobraking!

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      1. Mark 85
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        Re: Beers all round

        But did it do the "dead cat bounce" or just go "boom"? Enquiring minds and all that......

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        1. phuzz Silver badge
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          Re: Beers all round

          The pictures make it look like it went BOOM.

          Mind you, it also looks like at least part of the lander rolled away from the impact site, much like the comedy hub cap rolling away from a car crash.

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  2. dan1980

    "ExoMars probe snaps photos of your next dystopian home world when Earth goes to crap."

    What do you mean: "when"?

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  3. Winkypop Silver badge
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    All interplanetary science is cool

    See title

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  4. Faux Science Slayer

    Dr John Brandenburg on Mars Nuclear Weapons

    There is evidence of massive nuclear, air burst bombs that wiped out Martian atmosphere,

    causing loss of liquid surface water and leaving Xenon-129 isotope evidence.

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    1. Winkypop Silver badge
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      Re: Dr John Brandenburg on Mars Nuclear Weapons

      You use the word "evidence" but I don't think you understand it's meaning...

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    2. A. Coatsworth Silver badge
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      Re: Dr John Brandenburg on Mars Nuclear Weapons

      Not sure L Ron Hubbard's opus count as evidence. And in any case you'd have the wrong planet.

      That or Xenu was even *more* busy than we have been led to think.

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  5. Arctic fox
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    "Volcanoes to the left of me, chasms to the right, here I am –

    - sniffing the atmosphere for you"

    Very nice Stealers Wheel reference in the title of the photo at the top. As a service to those who were not young adults in 1972 here is the obligatory youtube link.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8StG4fFWHqg

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Nice photo and even more satisfying to see that Microsoft has started its XBox advertising for the festive season on such a grand scale. (Lower left of the picture).

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