5 May 2015 - Traffic Around Mars Gets Busy

[NASA]

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-odyssey-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=49102)5 May 2015 - Traffic Around Mars Gets Busy
NASA's Mars Exploration Program has begun using systematic precautions to prevent Mars orbiters from flying too close to each other.


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[lucidity]

Hello Siblings,

This is obviously a highly suspect news article.

How many orbiters around Mars ?
What are the chances, statistically, that two might collide ?
It must be millions or billions to one.

There are probably 10 or 100 times more satellites around Earth.
When do they ever collide ?
These satellites are usually small, but the space they traverse
above Earth or above Mars absolutely VAST .... simply immense.

You'd really struggle to get these things to collide even if they were in
the same orbit.

Is this a cover story, i wonder, for fitting out Mars based satellites
with UFO detection equipment ? Perhaps something like radar.

It's a cover story for something... literally... this is just balderdash.

be happy

lucidity :-)