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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory |OT| 2,000 Pounds of Science!
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The_Inquisitor
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Wait what? Lost contact?
PantherLotus
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1. I'm in for the haul.
2. It's a real shame that this is the best PR I've seen NASA ever do (except for their HUBBLE roll-outs) in my lifetime.
3. If for some reason this does fail, I can foresee a movement that it's time to get humans out there. You know, rather than the converse ("we can't send humans if we can land a robot!").
2. It's a real shame that this is the best PR I've seen NASA ever do (except for their HUBBLE roll-outs) in my lifetime.
3. If for some reason this does fail, I can foresee a movement that it's time to get humans out there. You know, rather than the converse ("we can't send humans if we can land a robot!").
Probably(hopefully) a stupid troll.
They turned of the transmitter, so they aren't sending her commands anymore. She is only sending data back.
Troll? What are you talking about?
What always blows my mind is that we have 2 satellites orbiting Mars, that is fucking awesome, i love the USA.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Is the ustream really choppy and unwatchable for anyone else?
weekend_warrior
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SCIENCE!
maquiladora
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In a few days we should be getting a 5fps video of the last mile of the landing from the bottom of the vehicle. Can't wait for that.
PantherLotus
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NASA TV just had a little animation explaining that we very well may not hear anything for three days.
The_Inquisitor
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Two very much aging satellites.
Did you not see the coverage for Spirit and Opportunity? That was fucking awesome stuff too.
Neuromancer
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That wheel is HUGE
DrForester
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Three. Mars Express should be there somewhere.
Smiles and Cries
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got to watch that first seperation
What does that have to do with anything?
Yeah. I'm thinking only happy thoughts.
AnathemicOne
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Mhm, Curiousity is already in the planet's sphere of influence
weekend_warrior
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What type of instruments are on Curiosity? What SCIENCE are they going to do with it?
Neuromancer
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The guy is saying we may get a picture not long after the landing, if everything goes well.
Blowing up rocks with lasers!
I didn't know that, GO EUROPE!!
AnathemicOne
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The rover has lasers to shoot at rocks
Spin? Lol. How else should they do it?
I think they are gonna look at some dirt.
1 x ACME chemistry set
maquiladora
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It will be a tiny thumbnail, avatar size, black and white if we get that. Will have a wait a bit longer for better pics.
DrForester
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Reconnaissance Orbiter isn't THAT old.
Also there's a weather satellite launching next year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAVEN
Actually got a chance to tour the Lockheed Martin facility near Denver a few months ago and saw this in the very early stages of construction. Only a few things had been attached to the superstructure.
Smiles and Cries
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clicking on Odyssey to see if its turning on Eyes On
Yeah. I just realized there's gonna be a lot of "waiting to confirm blah blah blah" and "we're running diagnostics" shit tonight. Time to focus on the Breaking Bad replays. PEACE.
They could have still have done what they did with spirit and opportunity which was inflate huge balls around them, would have been safer approach as it would have only hit the ground 4 miles per hour faster then this one. A rocket assisted descent is the riskiest way to go about this.
Neuromancer
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I like the guy with the mohawk and red highlights.
My little home made solar system simulator showing Gale Crater setting with respect to earth a few moments ago. I checked just as they said it on Nasa TV and when I saw my simulators Gale Crater setting just as they said it should be I let out a little "whoop!"
Amazes me we're landing it out of direct LoS to Earth, go humans!
maquiladora
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The thing is as big as a SUV...they've said multiple time that it's too big to use the balls method.
TheNatural
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My little home made solar system simulator showing Gale Crater setting with respect to earth a few moments ago. I checked just as they said it on Nasa TV and when I saw my simulators Gale Crater setting just as they said it should be I let out a little "whoop!"
Amazes me we're landing it out of direct LoS to Earth, go humans!
Who knew there was a crater on Uranus
No they couldn't. The rover is too heavy. You know, they've discussed this a lot. You would think before attempting to call their engineering into question you'd take the time to do a little research.
I know your joking but unless you can transmit faster than the speed of light, it ain't happening.
Yeah, but he might just consider that "spin."
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