I never quite understood why they don't do trial runs for these things by landing them on earth. SpaceX tests their rockets that way, so why not just send a whole bunch of rovers to space and have them land back on earth?
On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars https://theoatmeal.com/comics/insight pic.twitter.com/28M0Kg2HYy
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Earth has like 1000x the atmosphere of Mars and 40% more gravity is why.
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Incredible
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Cell division looks like boobies
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They already sent several moles of material to Mars. We celebrated it October 23 at 6:02.
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Beautiful!
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You're a mechanical jackhammer.
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You make a lot of cool comics. This one is extra special cool. Thank you!
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Of course, real webcomic geniuses live-comic major landings: https://xkcd.com/1446/
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Is it going to discover water on Mars ... again?
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