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[Kaako]

Still on cloud 9. Sooooo freaking happy for everyone involved! Please give NASA the funding it deserves. Stuff like this is what makes me proud of humanity as a whole. Just inspiring.

 

[speculawyer]

Mohawk man is all teary-eyed. Beautiful.

 

[qcf x2]

Power and bandwidth constraints

Mars is on average 225,000,000 km away from Earth.

So does that mean it's not going to get any better, or is it going to send hi-res pics but they're just going to take longer to get here?

 

[ResidentDante]

Amazing to watch, it so much more fun watching stuff like this live.

 

[orientalNoodle]

Is that a pyramid in the distance? :O

 

[vaelic]

The mission costs $2.5 billion.

 

[Keyouta]

Awesome stuff!

 

[Panda In Space]

 

[nitric0]

What is that in the horizon :O

 

[Chris R]

Too bad Congress will probably slash their budget again.

Why increase NASA's budget when they can just slash it and keep increasing the DoD budget!

 

[SCHUEY F1]

Fuck America, why can't you put half your military budget into NASA.

 

[Clydefrog]

"8 years of tension"

goddamn. i love these people.

 

[weekend_warrior]

Another perfect landing from the US of A.

 

[DrForester]

Yes, but failure rate is very high

This landing was soooo much more difficult than any other because of how big and heavy this rover is

I am super impressed

All the US rovers have been successful. Spirit and Opportunity both lasted well beyond their 90 day life expectancy. They both landed in 2004. Spirit ran until 2010, and Opportunity is still going.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

how did Odyssey manage a pic of the wheel?

 

[-SD-]

you know whats crazy the fact that when people celebrated curiosity's landing, it had already been sitting on the surface of mars for 12 minutes.

Curiosity is such a hipster.

 

[Macattk15]

I meant the damn "Opportunity" rover. I didn't know the difference between that rover and this one ... but now after some research I do. Didn't know why this one was so hyped.

 

[Clevinger]

So does that mean it's not going to get any better, or is it going to send hi-res pics but they're just going to take longer to get here?

No, the latter. Just that it takes time to send better stuff.

 

[TylerD]

Mother fucking sky crane.

And a rocket powered one at that... So awesome.

 

[Falifax]

I'm pretty sure that we will get better pictures. I mean, it just landed.

 

[Four_Chamber]

It's a freakin shame this had to happen on the same day as the Wisconsin tragedy. This should be celebrated as a triumph of humanity. One of the days that truly makes me feel good about human creativity and ingenuity.

 

[gutterboy44]

Awesome stuff. Good job NASA.

 

[everyday math]

Is that a pyramid in the distance? :O

Lol.

 

[Fenderputty]

I heard someone just say "8 years of tension"

I can't imagine how relieved they all feel.

 

[Deadstar]

You hear the one guy? "8 years of tension"

 

[Neuromancer]

The mission costs $2.5 billion.

Well worth it IMO

 

[soundscream]

WHAT IS THAT WORM LOOKING THING?!?!?!

Shai-Hulud.

 

[2Crisis]

Dang, the guys behind the window have to sit and watch the blueshirts celebrate? What a bummer.

 

[toddhunter]

What is that in the horizon :O

The ground

 

[Log4Girlz]

Nuclear powered

So like Godzilla then?

 

[Shard]

I await the day when the first living beings walk on Mars, I still want this to happen.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Seriously ... the people in here going 256x256 need to realize how difficult the challenge of landing something like this was. This was a lot of years of work. I'm sure for a lot of people this was their life's project. The amount of things that could have gone wrong. It's just incredible.

Also they need to realize that these aren;t the main camera's on the rover at all. And these tiny images are all they could transmit from this aux camera in the v. limited time/stream they had to Mars Observer.

 

[drizzle]

Hey guys. It has a couple of 2 megapixel cameras in it. When it's fully operational, we'll get 1024x1024 pictures.

We can't get any more pictures because the relay (The Artificial satellite we put there, which is also amazing) is below the horizon now.

 

[JLG-]

 

[DrForester]

What is that in the horizon :O

That's from a camera on the bottom of the rover. You're seeing the shadow of Curiosity.

And for people complaining about the picture
This was a picture taken immediately for the singular purpose of visually confirming the landing ASAP.

 

[LobLob]

So does that mean it's not going to get any better, or is it going to send hi-res pics but they're just going to take longer to get here?

It just landed, it needs time to get it's higher resolution cameras in working order.

 

[KHarvey16]

how did Odyssey manage a pic of the wheel?

Curiosity took the picture. It relayed it to earth using Odyssey.

 

[vaelic]

how long did it take to get from earth to mars?

 

[Omiee]

can you imagine the backlash if this thing would have crashed.

 

[killertofu]

T________T

 

[Forsete]

Tears of joy.

I'm so happy everything worked.

 

[Bill_Duke]

Better pics will come. I'm sure it has a better cam, but they're just sending small pics so they can get them faster, right? It takes longer to send high res pics.

 

[jett]

Amazing, a triumph for all mankind! NASA is one of the better things going on for humanity.

 

[ezekial45]

Well worth it IMO

I wonder how much an actual manned mission would cost?

 

[perfectchaos007]

You hear the one guy? "8 years of tension"

Damn. the actual transit time was only 6 months right? Is 8 years the amount of time since the last rover was sent to Mars?

 

[The_Inquisitor]

So does that mean it's not going to get any better, or is it going to send hi-res pics but they're just going to take longer to get here?

No they will. It just takes longer. Mission control wanted to make sure it was okay, so they took the "quickest" ones possible. Images are from the collision camera, which really isn't meant for taking the higher rez images we will eventually get.

 

[Slayer-33]

Guys guys guys


We mother fucking landed a mother fucking car on MARS.

 

[-COOLIO-]

Another perfect landing from the US of A.

well put

 

[mdphilli]

Soooo...When are they going to get back to work? Is there a B Team on the job now that the hard part is over?

 

[Four_Chamber]

Hey guys. It has a couple of 2 megapixel cameras in it. When it's fully operational, we'll get 1024x1024 pictures.

We can't get any more pictures because the relay (The Artificial satellite we put there, which is also amazing) is below the horizon now.

I'm laughing that people are complaining about the pictures. Talk about missing the forest for the trees...