Fail pictures

[mrspacely]

haha is that russias venus lander?

 

[Andy44]

Yeah, but how is that a "fail"? It was a successful landing on Venus, quite a technical achievment.

 

[Cairan]

Yeah, but how is that a "fail"? It was a successful landing on Venus, quite a technical achievment.

The ground compressibility experiment was rendered useless by the camera optical cover jettisoned earlier, which came to rest precisely where the compression probe was deployed later... The probe's reach point was fixed in respect to the lander so no option of sampling the soil a little to the left or the right...

 

[Linguofreak]

The ground compressibility experiment was rendered useless by the camera optical cover jettisoned earlier, which came to rest precisely where the compression probe was deployed later... The probe's reach point was fixed in respect to the lander so no option of sampling the soil a little to the left or the right...

Yes, that specific *part* of the mission was *quite* a failure.

EDIT: They did get compressibility data on their lens cap though...

 

[Kyle]

EPIC FAIL

 

[Missioncmdr]

The ground compressibility experiment was rendered useless by the camera optical cover jettisoned earlier, which came to rest precisely where the compression probe was deployed later... The probe's reach point was fixed in respect to the lander so no option of sampling the soil a little to the left or the right...

Exactly the point of the picture I made.

 

[Andy44]

I think that gets the "Geek Fail Pic Award", for only someone who was in the know could get it.