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[ckohler]

Is there a link somewhere to a recording of the livestream as it was happening?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnG-rFFpP8A

Was there a video attached to the actual rover showing it landing?

No. However, I think there will be a very low res (4fps) video of the lander landing coming later from a camera pointed at the surface. I remember hearing that they recorded shots of the last mile until touchdown.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I wish I knew about the Times Square party early I would have been there

 

[Vilix]

Watched it on XBL lastnight. Good stuff. Go America! Go science!

 

[Bowdz]

Watched it on XBL lastnight. Good stuff. Go America! Go science!

 

[Raistlin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnG-rFFpP8A

nerdgasm

 

[Jim]

And don't forget it established the sky crane method as a viable solution to the problem of landing heavy things on Mars(and places similar to Mars). In and of itself that is tremendously valuable!

This sticks in my mind more than anything. Beyond just dropping rovers on Mars, we now have a potentially good method for delivering heavy equipment and supplies in advance of possible manned missions.

 

[Zeppu]

 

[mackaveli]

When is the conference and the link to watch?

 

[KHarvey16]

This sticks in my mind more than anything. Beyond just dropping rovers on Mars, we now have a potentially good method for delivering heavy equipment and supplies in advance of possible manned missions.

Yup, and combined with the guided entry capability we've gotten much better at not only landing heavy things but doing it accurately. When dealing with people who need to get to important things quickly, and may not have easy mobility, that's really key.

 

[DieH@rd]

When is the conference and the link to watch?

in 10 mins @ http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

Maybe. Not sure.

 

[mackaveli]

in 10 mins @ http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

Thank you.

 

[DieH@rd]

in 10 mins @ http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

Maybe. Not sure.

Yup, 9AM PDT.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

any chance of new pics during meeting?

 

[Bowdz]

Has this pic been posted yet. View from MRO during the parachute phase:
https://twitter.com/AstroN8/status/232496228464750592/photo/1/large

 

[Hari Seldon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnG-rFFpP8A

Damn that brunette at the beginning is cute.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

I just want unnecessary amounts of SkyCranes now. Like, to load groceries in your car, or carry luggage at airports.

 

[AstroNut325]

Has this pic been posted yet. View from MRO during the parachute phase:
https://twitter.com/AstroN8/status/232496228464750592/photo/1/large

 

[danwarb]

Beautiful.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I feel bad for the ISS staff, they are still in the station doing stuff but news media never really show them anymore

 

[Ramma2]

Oh great did they have to open the stream of the press conference with a recap of last night? Manly tears are shed at work.

 

[owlbeak]

Has this pic been posted yet. View from MRO during the parachute phase:
https://twitter.com/AstroN8/status/232496228464750592/photo/1/large

YES! Awesome!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

worst start to a news conference smh replaying all the celebrations

stop

 

[Fenderputty]

Oh great did they have to open the stream of the press conference with a recap of last night? Manly tears are shed at work.

I know ... I was watching it and getting choked up at work too.

 

[Insane Metal]

Let's not forget Dawn, which will depart the orbit of Vesta on the 26th of this month and than reach Ceres in February of 2015 making in the first craft to visit a dwarf planet (beating out New Horizons by 5 months).

Also, thanks to JPL's flawless execution of Curiosity, there is a good chance that NASA will choose the Titan Mare Explorer for the next Discovery program to fund which would attempt to be the first craft to land in and explore an alien ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Mare_Explorer

That would be simply INCREDIBLE!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I must be cranky cause I have not gone to sleep yet

 

[speculawyer]

Has this pic been posted yet. View from MRO during the parachute phase:
https://twitter.com/AstroN8/status/232496228464750592/photo/1/large

Beautiful. Way to go EDL team! Worked like a charm.

 

[Dennis]

Is this one going to be abandoned as well?

 

[Bisnic]

Has this pic been posted yet. View from MRO during the parachute phase:
https://twitter.com/AstroN8/status/232496228464750592/photo/1/large

That's an even better capture than the last mission years ago.

 

[Kaako]

The parachute pic is awesome. Good stuff.

 

[owlbeak]

Is this one going to be abandoned as well?

Spirit is dead . Opportunity is still kicking though@

 

[PantherLotus]

And don't forget it established the sky crane method as a viable solution to the problem of landing heavy things on Mars(and places similar to Mars). In and of itself that is tremendously valuable!

This is a fantastic point. I think there's an opportunity to do something more with the crane itself after it detaches and flies away safely. Not sure what, yet.

 

[eastmen]

This is a fantastic point. I think there's an opportunity to do something more with the crane itself after it detaches and flies away safely. Not sure what, yet.

is there aynthing on the crane aside from wires and fuel ? If there is nothing then whats the point ?


mabye in the future they will be able to add some cameras or some type of tool

 

[Ramma2]

Is this one going to be abandoned as well?

"Good" rovers don't have flash memory management anomalies 17 days after landing.

 

[drizzle]

[url]http://www.abload.de/img/spiritbkq8f.png[/url]

Is this one going to be abandoned as well?

Sojourner, the small, RC-Car sized rover, mission was programmed to last a week to a month. It lasted 3 months.

The Spirit rover (the last rover we had on mars, along with Opportunity, it's Twin) was supposed to have a 100 day mission. It lasted for 5 years and it only stopped working because the dust accumulated on the solar panels was just too much for it to properly recharge itself. It just stopped communicating.

Opportunity, which arrived a couple weeks later, is still alive and kicking, since 2004.

This one doesn't have any solar panels to be covered by dust, it has a nuclear battery. Also, it can function during Mars winter and during the night. It has a 2 year mission, but unless something goes wrong, it can go on for about 15 years.

 

[C.Dark.DN]

This is a fantastic point. I think there's an opportunity to do something more with the crane itself after it detaches and flies away safely. Not sure what, yet.

It crash lands but they say this mission demonstrates sending saples back to earth and it seems like the crane might be apart of that?

Edit: tho the quote talks about a large rover being able to send samples back.

 

[derFeef]

Has this pic been posted yet. View from MRO during the parachute phase:
https://twitter.com/AstroN8/status/232496228464750592/photo/1/large

Can you post the source of the larger pic?

 

[Bowdz]

Can you post the source of the larger pic?

I don't have a base source. NASA should have it up on their site soon, but I first saw it on NASA Space Flight.

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=29612.555

 

[EarsOfASnake]

Is this one going to be abandoned as well?

One day when traveling across mars is a non issue we must go and pick up all these rovers.

 

[devilhawk]

Can you post the source of the larger pic?

https://twitter.com/marscuriosity

 

[C.Dark.DN]

This is kind of a source
http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity
http://twitpic.com/ag8j1w/full

But I can't find the clean version

 

[derFeef]

Thanks, it appears on official sites now This is great, they wrote the chance was about 60% to capture this.

 

[pringles]

This is a fantastic point. I think there's an opportunity to do something more with the crane itself after it detaches and flies away safely. Not sure what, yet.

Definitely, that thing had like 25% of it's fuel still remaining when it dropped off the rover. Gotta be something more you can do with it knowing that it works so well.

 

[fallout]

Here it is from the HiRISE site:

http://www.uahirise.org/releases/msl-descent.php

 

[danwarb]

There doesn't seem to be much advantage to the sky crane method for anthing that doesn't mind having a more traditional landing stage underneath it.

The advantage is not taking unnecessary landing gear if we've already got wheels, and stability?

 

[C.Dark.DN]

Thanks, it appears on official sites now This is great, they wrote the chance was about 60% to capture this.

Ah yeah
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-indexEvents.html

 

[Vilix]

Nuclear power plant, headlights to shine a light for scientists at night, and in a crater where a mountain has formed.

 

[pargonta]

this press conference is fascinating.

pictures with the mountain should be staggering when we get them.

 

[owlbeak]

Hi-Res version of HiRISE's photo of Curiosity during descent:

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2012/details/cut/MSL-1.tiff

 

[FACE]

Are those press conferences archived? I missed a bit in the beginning.

 

[Bowdz]

Are those press conferences archived? I missed a bit in the beginning.

They are usually posted within 24 hours on the NASA TV Youtube channel.