Smiles and Cries
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save the party for later people I want some color photos and results sheesh
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory |OT| 2,000 Pounds of Science!
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I support the boogieing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgGJdgseU5o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgGJdgseU5o
CNN covered the entire landing.
astroturfing
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woke up like 5 hours earlier than usual to watch this... so awesome it worked, i can't believe it really. like holy shit.
good job NASA, good job. cannot wait for all Mars-related news in the coming years!
anyone know who else was involved with this project? i know the instrument on Curiosity that will be used to study the atmosphere was built here in Finland, but who else? Australia did something?
good job NASA, good job. cannot wait for all Mars-related news in the coming years!
anyone know who else was involved with this project? i know the instrument on Curiosity that will be used to study the atmosphere was built here in Finland, but who else? Australia did something?
They send it commands like "go there" and the onboard computer navigate it's way automatically.
timetokill
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They're not getting those until tomorrow, thing is radio silent for now. Be patient.
Slayer-33
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Jezbollah
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Not really, they used ballast weights and a number of manoeuvres during entry to reduce the landing footprint from several miles to a few hundred feet.
All they can do is wait for orbiting satellites.
They survey the area from photos. Then from satellite images, the engineers from earth program the rover to go exactly where they want. The rover itself can autonomously deviate a little from the plan to avoid rocks and other hazards in the environment. So no, it's not done in real time.
ZombieTimeMachine
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The skycrane seems like such an insane idea, I can't believe it worked. Kudos to NASA for coming up with such an inventive solution.
Microsoft going to support XP another 2 years because of NASA
That was EDL. They're talking about now that it's on the surface.
Pristine_Condition
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That was the big victory for NASA...the timing of this thing. It certainly pressures both Presidential candidates to pledge their support this morning.
Nasa has always been very inventive from almost catastrophic failures to it's most stunning mission to date
, long live NASA!!I felt the same way - watching the telemetry come in as it was actually working was pretty amazing.
Very carefully. There are no "live" images from Mars. Light lag time is anywhere from three to twenty-two minutes. They program movements based on what the various cameras can see, which is a big part of the reason it has stereoscopic cameras. They have a simulated environment where they test out optimal movements before sending the orders for movement.
Smiles and Cries
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If Obama gets a second term and does not fund these guys better
Gen.Grievous
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Can't be done in real time as it takes about 7 minutes for a signal from Earth to reach Mars.
Do we know when we'll have the picture of the landing from HiRISE?
Yup! Some one here mentioned that the MRO team was pretty sure they got a picture too.
Yup! Some one here mentioned that the MRO team was pretty sure they got a picture too.
If Obama gets a second term and does not fund these guys better
I don't think he will fund them better
. I hope i am wrong.MasterShotgun
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We just landed a 1 ton mobile science lab on Mars.
*highfive*
We landed a car festooned with cameras and high-tech sensors on Mars. Plus it has a laser. Pew, pew.
Just a 1 ton rover landed on Mars with a little help of a sky crane.
If Obama gets a second term and does not fund these guys better
I'll weep. His science adviser that was there better go bust his balls
maquiladora
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My name is on a microchip on the rover on Mars.
A lot of people here did that if I remember right? So cool to think about.
A lot of people here did that if I remember right? So cool to think about.
Smiles and Cries
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if they don't get this conference under way they are going to miss the next photos relayed by Odyssey
gutterboy44
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The touchdown was a bulls-eye, but my god, the missed high fives. Honkey town usa. Whatever, when you can land a car on mars with a fucking skycrane, you can miss all the terrorist fist jabs you like.
DrForester
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If Obama gets a second term and does not fund these guys better
Obama has not been good for NASA to be honest.
We shot a SUV into space months ago and it landed on Mars.
evil solrac v3.0
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thanks for all the responses. I will get to reading, oh man I can't wait until they find new minerals or god knows what. it's also a shame that none of the networks are covering this live, what a shame.
And that laser is a new as fuck science instrument, yay science!
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