Is it true the US military currently have satellites orbiting Mars?
970077
Given even a paranoid conspiracy theorist's frame of mind, why would the military need to put a satellite in orbit around Mars?  We know it's a dead planet, so we can rule out the martians attacking us.  We can monitor chinese launches from earth, so there's no need to put a satellite there to tell us that someone put another satellite in orbit there.  The cost alone would be astronomical (pun intended), and the return would be nil.  I'm sure they'd rather buy another B1 bomber instead with the money.
133292
The US government will tell the truth about contact with extraterrestrials when it actually happens.\nNow go put your tinfoil hat back on.
59685
Yes they did.\n\nBut mars is very far away, and if somone did try to make it out there, they would be at the effect of multiple things:\n\n1.) Solar flares, they would have no protection\n2.) There would be no way to help them if something went wrong out there.\n3.) The astronauts would lose LOTS of bone mass, from the lack of gravity in space.\n4.) to carry enough food and water would need a big spacecraft, thus needing more fuel\n\nAs well as others\n\nBut it aslo has to do with the governments. If it was "Earth" instead of everyone individually, we would have a much better chance.
758819
The only satelite images that are on the internet are old images (Google Earth). The only live feeds are observed by government agencies such as NASA, CIA, FBI, etc.
650118
Yes. he is another form of marsian. i dont understand why is NASA launching vehicles to mars in serach of life, bush is the represntaive of mars, research on him.
80107
United States Strategic Command tracks objects orbiting earth.  An AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, located at Eglin Air Force Base, is the primary sensor used to track these objects.  The radar is capable of tracking objects the size of a soccer ball at 20,000 miles.  The quote following is from USSTRATCOM's website (see first link).  The second link provides additional information on the Eglin RADAR. \n\nFWIW, the Eglin RADAR is now receiving a major hardware and software upgrade under the SENSOR contract.  ITT is the prime contractor and Northrop Grumman is the major sub.\n\n"USSTRATCOM tracks about 8,500 man-made space objects, baseball-size and larger, orbiting Earth. The space objects consist of active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation. About 7 percent are operational satellites, 15 percent are rocket bodies, and about 78 percent are fragmentation and inactive satellites."
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United States Strategic Command tracks objects orbiting earth. An AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, located at Eglin Air Force Base, is the primary sensor used to track these objects. The radar is capable of tracking objects the size of a soccer ball at 20,000 miles. The quote following is from USSTRATCOM's website (see first link). The second link provides additional information on the Eglin RADAR. \n\nFWIW, the Eglin RADAR is now receiving a major hardware and software upgrade under the SENSOR contract. ITT is the prime contractor and Northrop Grumman is the major sub.\n\n"USSTRATCOM tracks about 8,500 man-made space objects, baseball-size and larger, orbiting Earth. The space objects consist of active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation. About 7 percent are operational satellites, 15 percent are rocket bodies, and about 78 percent are fragmentation and inactive satellites."
1172787
Yes i think they exist, but they are definitely not on mars as people think,their brain is on mars. It doesn't mean that if on mars everything is suitable for a human,these aliens may have other air, food.. that humans don't that we don't know.The extent of the universe is unknown, there may be many of them or even humans that are many light years from us and they cant reach us.
137427
satellites.\n\nfor sure
1127353
We are able to today.  Potential cost has been estimated at less than $30 billion...\n\nHey, I have an idea!  Bill Gates can pay for the mission, and then claim Mars all for himself, kinda like the European monarchs did with the Americas!
779660
The Earth and Mars do not orbit the sun in perfect circles, they are ellipses.\nSo sometimes the Earth is closer to the sun than other times, and sometimes Mars is closer to the sun than other times.\nSo if the Earth is farther from the sun than normal at the same time Mars is closest to the sun, and this happens when both planets are on the same side of the sun, then we are closer to Mars than any other time and therefore we can see it better.
378078
The US Armed Services are pursuing new tactical concepts...among them are Targeting Vehicle, Tactical Mobile Robots, Solar Blind Detectors, Metal Storm, Combat Hybrid Power Systems, and the pre-cursor efforts of the Future Ground Combat System...all coordinated with the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and with DARPA's Small Unit Operations project.  The civilian flights of technicians and engineers continue to and from the Directorate for Development Plans Area (Groom Lake Air Base), so we know something is afoot.
447152
Here's a listing of all spacecraft sent to or onto Mars --\n\nMariner 4 (1965)\nMariner 6 & 7 (1969)\nMariner 9 (1971)\nViking 1 & 2 (1976)\nPhobos 2 (1989)\nPathfinder (1997)\nMars Global Surveyor (1997)\nMars Climate Orbiter (1998)\nMars Polar Lander (1999)\nMars Surveyor 2001 - Orbiter/Lander (2001)\nMars Surveyor 2003 - Orbiter/Lander (2003)\n\nNOTE: Not all Mars missions were successful
345281
None, at least no natural ones.  There may be artificial satellites sent there though.
636099
It is possible and there are many comm sats in orbits other than GEO.  The Iridium satellite phone network is in LEO (pretty close to polar orbits) although that isn't used to transmit TV and the Russians have satellites in Molniya orbits which are 12 hour orbits of about 63.4° inclination which have a ground track that causes the spacecraft to move very slowly with respect to Earth at apogee thereby allowing 3 satellites to give 24 hour coverage of a high latitude region that would be too far from the equator for a GEO satellite.\n\nThe problem with other orbits though is that TV broadcasting satellites tend to point at a large area of the ground and then just have their customers point their dish at a fixed point in the sky which wouldn't be possbile if they satellite were moving with respect to the ground.  Pretty much anything other than GEO is easier to reach than GEO although if you get a launch anamoly while the spacecraft is doing the burn to put it on course to GEO it'll probably be harder to get it back to LEO or into a Molniya orbit (and if it was launched from a low latitude site it would probably require a plane change for a Molniya orbit which takes a lot of propellant).
1011170
yes, UFOss are real. the military of several other countries have come out and said they exist.  i dont know if the US gov had any encounters. But, i believe world govs do cover it up. if it comes out that they exist it would dissapprove many of the beliefs that make up  our world's societies. for example; religion.
289819
Not a satellite, since that's something that is in an established orbit, but a space probe, yes.  There's one on the way at the moment.  At full speed, it'll be the fastest traveling manmade object ever, but even at that sort of speed it'll take nine years to get there.