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[Aklyon]

Theres also these I found:
https://twitter.com/surfaceofmars
https://twitter.com/SarcasticRover
https://twitter.com/KillerCuriosity
https://twitter.com/WeRnotMars
https://twitter.com/TheWateryPlanet
https://twitter.com/TheGoddamnSun

[MaximumZero]

The little rock that could. 

And apparently has a name now...Coronation (presumably from the crown-like shape?)

From being the first thing lasered on Mars.

You know, aside from the Alien Brain.

[Sheb]

I hope they keep track of that rock, and that in 60 years I'll be able to take my great grand-kids to a museum and tell them "See, that N165. Use to have the cutest twitter account!".

[palsch]

NASA announce new Mars mission for 2016.

It's not a rover; it's a drill that will go down 5 meters and help us figure out what happens in the core of our neighboring terrestrial planet.

A little bitter-sweet though;

We should all keep in mind that along with the selection of this mission, NASA had to choose not to do two other fantastic missions, one to hop from place to place around a comet, and another that would have gone to Titan and float a boat on its liquid natural gas ocean. How cool would these have been?

[Oliolli]

And if NASA had a larger budget, they could do all of those 

I think the States could increase NASAs budget like 5 times if they, say, taxed churches and gave that money to NASA.^{[citation needed]}

[10ebbor10]

And if NASA had a larger budget, they could do all of those 

I think the States could increase NASAs budget like 5 times if they, say, taxed churches and gave that money to NASA.^{[citation needed]}

They could only just about double it. However, I think they should just double the budget. Nasa has an estimated Return investement of at least 2 to one

[Sheb]

Man, this nuclear SUV also got a X-Ray/Neutron gun. Did NASA replace its design guidelines with a single sheet of paper sporting "RULE OF COOL" in colourful letters?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Even better: The neutron gun was built by the Russians.

[RedKing]

NASA announce new Mars mission for 2016.

It's not a rover; it's a drill that will go down 5 meters and help us figure out what happens in the core of our neighboring terrestrial planet.

A little bitter-sweet though;

We should all keep in mind that along with the selection of this mission, NASA had to choose not to do two other fantastic missions, one to hop from place to place around a comet, and another that would have gone to Titan and float a boat on its liquid natural gas ocean. How cool would these have been?

D:

I totally would have gone with the Titan boat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Mare_Explorer

I mean, come on...how much are you really going to be able to tell about the Martian core based on a 5m hole in the ground?
Versus floating a nuclear-powered, first-ever space boat on an alien sea of hydrocarbons, looking for methane-based life? No contest.

[Sheb]

I'm kinda sad thet didn't just planned to give the boat tanks of oxygen and burn that methane for energy.

As for the 5-m hole, the aim is to do seismologic studies to know if Mars got a molten core, and if yes why it doesn't have plate tectonics.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Presumably the mantel could be cooled but the core still molten.

[sluissa]

Yeah, it's less about the hole itself and more about sending/recieving sounds through the head of the drill to figure out what is in the surrounding rock, and even deeper.

As for the choice, Titan would take a long time, as might the comet idea, depending on which comet they chose. Right now they have a lot of support for Mars, via Curiosity. Also, 2016 is a relatively short time frame as far as design to realization goes in space missions. (Ignoring the 50-60s space race.)

[RedKing]

I get the aim of it, I just think you'd need to go significantly deeper than 5m. Like 500m.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I don't think you could remote drill that, and I really don't think nuking Mars to make a hole will go over well with anyone.

[RedKing]

I don't think you could remote drill that, and I really don't think nuking Mars to make a hole will go over well with anyone.

Nonsense. Dig deeper! What could possibly go wrong? I'm sure there's not a Space Balrog locked in the core....