When will NASA make a wind powered Mars probe?

wohoo!

It's strange that so much money is spent looking for life on a planet that has such an uninhabitable atmosphere!!!
"it must now survive hard UV and other radiation, highly corrosive soil, dust storms far more violent than any on Earth and temperatures ranging from -130° F to 32° F (-90° C to 0° C).
Go figure!

It's strange that so much money is spent looking for life on a planet that has such an uninhabitable atmosphere!!!
"it must now survive hard UV and other radiation, highly corrosive soil, dust storms far more violent than any on Earth and temperatures ranging from -130° F to 32° F (-90° C to 0° C).
Go figure!

I guess the discovery of life (or its remains) would be a bonus but there is much other information to be gathered by examining the surface (and shallow mantle) of our nearest planetary neighbour.
Looking at high resolution images of Mars there seems to be fairly convincing evidence of the presence of considerable amounts of liquid water on the surface of the planet at some period. if there is no evidence of life found then the question that would spring to mind would be "Life: why here and not there?"
Oh for a Voidhawk to broaden our horizons more rapidly!

Finally we're getting Street View for Google Mars.

We'll be getting Street View, but the faces will be fuzzed out for privacy reasons!

"It's strange that so much money is spent looking for life on a planet that has such an uninhabitable atmosphere!!!
"it must now survive hard UV and other radiation, highly corrosive soil, dust storms far more violent than any on Earth and temperatures ranging from -130° F to 32° F (-90° C to 0° C).
Go figure!
idp - August 6, 2012 @ 04:49 am PDT"
idp, the atmosphere on Mars may have been/may be hospitable to life, but not as we know it. We evolved to exist in Earth's atmosphere - is it so hard to believe that something else may have evolved to exist in a different type of atmosphere? If the rest of the human race doubted everything and wasn't willing to "take a chance", we'd still be praying that we wouldn't fall off the edge of the world in our wooden sailing ships...

Jumping-Up-&-Down Congratulations to the entire NASA Curiosity team for pulling off one of the boldest, gutsiest landings ever! And without benefits of any actual on-Earth testing of the entire integrated concept (had to be done on Mars itself)! Now, on to a long and productive mission! Bravo!

I am super excited about this! And congrats to the engineers--quite an achievement!