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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory |OT| 2,000 Pounds of Science!
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Lol, this is so not the thread for this...
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Holy shit, I didnt realize this thing was the size of a car :O
Agreed, but he asked.
DrForester
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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.
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.
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.
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.
That skycrane was probably the biggest risk of this whole mission, i am super happy that it worked flawlessly.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
From Twitter:
That got me more than it should had. lol
The Big Rig
Member
I hope the skycrane tech finds some use on Earth.
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.
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.
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense.
Do you really believe what you just wrote?
Primary purpose of those photos is verification that the thing landed upright, so small resolution B&W for faster transmission.
piratepwnsninja
Member
Man, I'm so excited. I know this has probably been posted before, but I love this video. It has some relevance here, so I'm sharing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QouiLXqSf90
Science...awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QouiLXqSf90
Science...awesome.
I'm sure this is not the last of this skycrane tech, Nasa will definitely use this going forward if they don't get outright killed by Congress. Not sure how this could be applied here on earth though.
maquiladora
Member
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.
Lots of beautiful natural color images, videos, scientific data and a drive up a Martian mountain to come.
Smiles and Cries
Member
news briefing next
afraid to refresh NASA.gov
afraid to refresh NASA.gov
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
I think it can last much longer lol.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Sample collect-and-return missions.
orientalNoodle
Banned
This rover has 500,000 line of codes to control all its actions. Would suck to send a patch from earth when there is a bug.
Pristine_Condition
Member
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.
Now that EDL was a success, time to repost Curiosity's theme song (my choice):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NouZB6QuCys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NouZB6QuCys
Forsete
Member
Well I will never forget it!
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.
Same here bro. I was pretty damned nervous about it.
Almost...the two mast cams are 1600x1200!
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.
Hilarious, lol.From Twitter:
It was great to follow a slice of history through the internet like this. The information NASA divulges on their website is second to none. I felt genuinely proud to be human while watching the touchdown.
AnathemicOne
Banned
Exactly, failure was absolutely not an option and they still pulled it off with pre-rendered commands. It is absolutely stunning.
DrForester
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One of the people on the Google+ party was saying it has a 10+ year potential life
I guess you're joking, but that has been done, more than once, with the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
It can be done.
Smiles and Cries
Member
this one is plained for 2 years... unlike the little guy that had 90days to do its job
damn 2 years could turn out to be 20 years but they plan to climb a mountain so falling off is a given
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.
opticalmace
Member
Watched it live at my university with about 80 other people.
Fuck, yeah!
Fuck, yeah!
Main cameras are 1600x1200 and there is a 720P HD video camera shooting at 6fps
It is only supposed to run for 2, but it can potentially run for like 15 years
It would be awesome if it can last a long time
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