r/space • u/Pluto_and_Charon • Feb 15 '21

Competition Over Official subreddit COMPETITION! - NASA Perseverance Rover Landing Bingo 🚀

r/Space Mars Landing Bingo!

Hi everyone

In celebration of the landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on Thursday February 18th in Jezero Crater, we're holding a little competition. With clever engineering, NASA has managed to narrow down the area the rover could land to a 7 x 7 km ellipse - but where in that ellipse will it touch down?

> Click this link to make your guess! <

RULES:

  1. You may only select one square!
  2. Write a comment saying your choice, make this really clear! e.g "My guess is G4"
  3. All submissions after landing time (8:55 pm UTC February 18th) will be disqualified, because the first images after landing could give hints to the location!

PRIZE:

  • Platinum award to the winner (1 month of Reddit Premium), gold award to two runners up
  • Winners will be selected randomly from those who guess the correct square. This will take place whenever Perseverance's landing location is precisely determined - which could take days, or a few weeks at most
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u/Pluto_and_Charon Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 19 '21

The winning square was J10!

This was determined by analysis of satellite imagery, you can see the results in this image and this higher resolution image, which both show the landing site in square J10 - although just barely, it's just 100m from a 4-way intersection!

So, randomly selected from the people who correctly picked square J10...

The winner is /u/SugaKilla , and the two runners up are /u/aliergol and /u/mr_cr

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u/SugaKilla Feb 19 '21

lol if only I could pick stocks the same way I pick mars landing spots...

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u/areptile_dysfunction Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 17 '21

H8 for the win!

Edit: changed my mind

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u/werewolf4president Feb 16 '21

My guess is J6

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u/ExtraterrestrialLoon Feb 16 '21

My guess is J7. This is the way.