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Message Subject Why the sudden rush to Mars suddenly?
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[link to www.mars10psi.com]

At sea level, Earth has an atmospheric pressure of 14.7 PSI (pounds per square inch). This atmosphere allows life as we know it to exist on our planet.


Before the Viking spacecraft landed on Mars in 1976, it was thought that the atmospheric pressure of Mars was somewhere between 0.4 PSI and 4.4 PSI. When the Viking spacecraft landed, the pressure sensor appeared to indicate that the atmospheric pressure on the surface of Mars was 0.09 PSI.


There was a software error in the conversion of pressure sensor data, where Pa and hPa were not considered as different units, although they differ by a factor of 100. This implies that Mars has an atmospheric pressure of 9 PSI. This has rather large implications for our understanding of physics, and may be an explanation why most spacecraft attempting to land on Mars fail, and the ones that do land are many miles from the intended landing location.


Units errors have caused the loss of several spacecraft, including one to Mars.

"root cause for the loss of the MCO spacecraft was the failure to use metric units in the coding of a ground software file"
- Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board Phase I Report November 10, 1999

The question I asked myself a few years ago (and, individually, 492 other people since then), and still can not find another answer is:


The sky is not black when viewed from Mars rovers.

At 100,000 feet on Earth, the pressure is similar to the currently accepted pressure on Mars, and the sky is black.

If the diffuse light on Mars is from the dust, what is holding up the dust? (Most likely not turtles.)



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Comments are appreciated. If you have additional supporting information, or if you think that any data, or even the entire concept, is wrong, please let me know. -Nathan [email protected] Phone: (354196 times 14407)


This website is mars10psi.com because I had thought the atmospheric pressure on the surface of Mars was 10 PSI before I found the units error. I now think it is likely 9 PSI.


Religion and politics should have nothing to do with a math error.

I do not believe in the flat Earth. See turtle joke above.
 Quoting: JADR+

 Quoting: JADR+


different color at that altitude has to do with atmosphere composition, not ONLY the altitude
 
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