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I wonder if there was a sound when the skycrane crashed? With that thin atmosphere?

Thanks for bringing MSL safley down skycrane. You will not be forgotten. :(
 
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Forsete said:
I wonder if there was a sound when the skycrane crashed? With that thin atmosphere?

Thanks for bringing MSL safley down skycrane. You will not be forgotten. :(
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Yes it will. They were saying that visiting the wreck site probably won't be on the schedule, because of the danger of unused rocket fuel.
 
Clevinger said:
It's just a petition, with all donations going towards that. A NASA kickstarter would be useless. Too much money.
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I wish my bank would take my way2save account and instead of sending the extra cents to make an even dollar into my savings account would instead put it into a collective fund for NASA.
 
Who says imagination is dead. You give the public a single image from another planet and people immediately speculate about what kind of crazy shit a rock in the distance might be.

Can't wait for some of that HD goodness. Party time's over robot, get to the science!
 
Forsete said:
I wonder if there was a sound when the skycrane crashed? With that thin atmosphere?

Thanks for bringing MSL safley down skycrane. You will not be forgotten. :(
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That skycrane was probably the biggest risk of this whole mission, i am super happy that it worked flawlessly.
 
For those of you bitching about the first two photos, they were taken by low resolution hazard cameras used primarily for driving and navigation.

Those cameras also had transparent lens covers on to protect them from the dust you see on those photos.

I'm sorry, but go away and come back in a week if all you care about is photos that show something amazing less than 30 minutes after landing on Mars.
 
Any news channel that is not covering this right now is a disgrace. CNN covered it the longest thankfully. Fox News covered it for maybe fifteen minutes and then went to a rerun of a story about Michael Jackson
 
birdcity said:
For those of you bitching about the first two photos, they were taken by low resolution hazard cameras used primarily for driving and navigation.

Those cameras also had transparent lens covers on to protect them from the dust you see on those photos.

I'm sorry, but go away and come back in a week if all you care about is photos that show something amazing less than 30 minutes after landing on Mars.
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Primary purpose of those photos is verification that the thing landed upright, so small resolution B&W for faster transmission.
 
Imagine if mankind could spend all resources towards space exploration instead of war/conflicts etc, we would live on Mars by now.
 
Here's to 2 years of exploration.

Lots of beautiful natural color images, videos, scientific data and a drive up a Martian mountain to come.
 
speculawyer said:
It worked. Wow. Awesome!
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I know. I can't get over how complicated it was, and it worked. They took a large vehicle, shot it through deep space all the way to another planet, entered the atmosphere, steered it where it needed to go, turned it it into a huge parachute drop, then turned that into a crazy rocket platform with a fucking crane on it, which lowered that bitch to the surface and then sped away, all without being able to give it any commands.

I can only guess the people who planned and built that thing were listening to the A-Team music the whole time while they were working.
 
DrForester said:
Yes it will. They were saying that visiting the wreck site probably won't be on the schedule, because of the danger of unused rocket fuel.
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Well I will never forget it! :P

Its probably a good idea to stay away from it. Maybe something in orbit can try to get a picture of it (HiRise?) if possible.

LobLob said:
That skycrane was probably the biggest risk of this whole mission, i am super happy that it worked flawlessly.
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Same here bro. I was pretty damned nervous about it. :P
 
LobLob said:
Isn't it? It is amazing we landed a small car NOT an Escalade SUV on the planet.
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Shut up.

Escalade:
79" wide
75" tall
202" long
surface area:74,066

Rover:
84" tall
108" wide
120" long
surface area:64,224

Countryman
61" tall
70" wide
161" long
surface area:50,722

Closer to an Escalade than a countryman. Fool.
 
Pristine_Condition said:
I know. I can't get over how complicated it was, and it worked. They took a large vehicle, shot it through deep space all the way to another planet, entered the atmosphere, steered it where it needed to go, turned it it into a huge parachute drop, then turned that into a crazy rocket platform with a @#!*% crane on it, which lowered that @#!*% to the surface and then sped away, all without being able to give it any commands.

I can only guess the people who planned and built that thing were listening to the A-Team music the whole time while they were working.
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Exactly, failure was absolutely not an option and they still pulled it off with pre-rendered commands. It is absolutely stunning.
 
dmr87 said:
Imagine if mankind could spend all resources towards space exploration instead of war/conflicts etc, we would live on Mars by now.
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It's really depressing but really impractical as well. You'd have to be the idealist of the idealists to think that something like that could ever happen in this day and age.
 
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