DrForester
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If there's one disappointment to this project is we won't get any amazing pictures of Curiosity doing it's thing, as there's no base platform to picture it with.
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory |OT| 2,000 Pounds of Science!
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If there's one disappointment to this project is we won't get any amazing pictures of Curiosity doing it's thing, as there's no base platform to picture it with.
So amazing and also familiar. Doesn't look too far off from similar places on Earth.
"I want to go to there"
- Liz Lemon
TheNatural
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I've been on Wikipedia for like an hour reading the "Exploration of ________ planet" in the solar system's histories. I didn't know the first probe to reach the surface of another planet and transmit info, was actually Venus, and they're actually working on a possible rover there, but it would have to be cooled in some way because of the heat of the planet.
Was it a russian probe that got crushed like fedor when he faced decent competition?
The_Inquisitor
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Has nasa put any thought in using micro-motors below the solar panels to "shake off" the dust similar to how a DSLR vibrates when you turn it off to clean the mirror?
*tears up* Now this is what I want to spend my tax dollars on! Let's just kickstart NASA already ffs.
AnathemicOne
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That's freagin' awesome!
Triple Nickel
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Absolutely stunning....
Coincidentally listening to Dune when I clicked.
Does it have manipulation arms? I guess not? It'd be cool if the next one they send had the ability to deploy an independent camera so that we can see it rolling around.
I haven't seen any talk of this but does Curiosity have video capabilities?
I have literally (no joke) had this playing on repeat since Sunday. Nothing puts me in the mood for space exploration (specifically Mars information) like ME music.
http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=OlmekRoRL14
So amazing. And yet so depressing at the same time. I want to personally experience what its like to step foot on another planet
i never really got this sort of way of thinking. earth seems way more interesting than other planets. still lots of exploring do here.
want to experience what its like on another planet? go to some remote area of earth.
TheNatural
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I bet that you hand out candy corn to all the kids on Halloween, don't you?
I understand what you mean but the thing is there are so many varied planets and if we were able to visit them, we would be expanding our ability to explore our own earth at the same time we learn to explore other planets. All of the techs we would be using to analyze and categorize the other places would be useful on Earth as well.
Earth is more interesting right now because we've got a bunch of dead rocks around us and we know little enough about a lot of them so we don't really even know what's cool about them yet. We have to get past them before we can get to the really cool stuff for worlds with vegetation and other life. Hell, we don't even know 100% that the planets around us are dead do we? We just assume they are based on our current understanding of science. We have to get there before we can really know.
speculawyer
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Man . . . we are shitting up Mars aren't we?
mother of god
speculawyer
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Really? The alien craft landed in Area 51? What was the probability of that?
Dreams-Visions
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Jesus christ I could look at this all day. Absolutely incredible.
everyday math
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That's amazing. This is what we need to spend our tax dollars on.
Really? The alien craft landed in Area 51? What was the probability of that?Or did someone arrange those numbers for that to work out like that?
Probably mohawk guy
Man . . . we are shitting up Mars aren't we?
This is a little known feature of Curiosity but it's actually configured with an fully automatic can deployment system (FACDS) aka FAuC DeS and it's got a variety bag of about 200 pounds of aluminum cans that it will be deploying as it travels along the surface to make it a little more homey for manned missions later.
Man . . . we are shitting up Mars aren't we?
Curiosity jettisoned a bunch of pieces of ballast during EDL, too. Can't really be helped.
maquiladora
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Is this a new briefing coming up or a repeat from yesterday?
6 a.m. - Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity Rover Post-Landing News Briefing - Sol 2 Update - JPL (All Channels)
Edit: Nvm, its a repeat.
6 a.m. - Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity Rover Post-Landing News Briefing - Sol 2 Update - JPL (All Channels)
Edit: Nvm, its a repeat.
PjotrStroganov
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That panorama is very nice. But really guys, are you going to tell me you haven't seen any of the countless and beautiful panoramas that Spirit, Opportunity and even Pathfinder took? Shame on you!
Necromanti
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Can't wait for Google to add this to their "Street View" in Google Maps.
That's beautiful.
Bitmap Frogs
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False color image AFAIK.
slothmeister
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Can anyone post a link to te photo that's been released but a smaller version of it, it's taking forever to load on my iPad?
David Incorporated Esq.
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I can't help but think of Curiosity sending back myspace angle photos.
PjotrStroganov
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Show that near-sighted ignorant this:Has this picture been posted?
My gf's "friend" posted it on FB. I'm moving to mars...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlGemHL5vLY
Then tell him this is NASA's budget: '4 tenths of a penny on a tax dollar' and that the bank bailout is more than NASA's entire budget for 50 years!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi636wl6a1w
Those mountains/hills..
So a week or so for the real cameras to kick in and we see those gorgeous HD images of our Martian cousin (but why do system checks take a week or more?!)
Then a few weeks after that to get the first sample test results. Then it will be months and years for the real good stuff. I can't wait for every second of that!
Then a few weeks after that to get the first sample test results. Then it will be months and years for the real good stuff. I can't wait for every second of that!
Actually, for me, the most amazing thing is how the unthinkable or the absurd quickly becomes a given and a 'duh!'. We thought planets were rare, they are a norm. Water is everywhere. There is liquid on Titan. I am sure whatever we learn from this mission will not only expand out understanding, but make somethings we thought to be rare into normal occurrences. and I think life is abundant in space just by the sheer size and math of things. And yes, that includes intelligent and non-intelligent life. Why are we so damn special?
The problem is due to distance, we won't physically come in contact with any life beyond our solar system and the objects that come with in it like asteroids. But, hey, at least we can one day prove this.
I imagine after sending that large a vehicle that far a distance and having spent such an amount of money, they'd rather spend a week checking everything got there safe and sound rather than driving off doing stuff and only finding out in 2 years that sensor xyz is actually out of alignment by 0.4 millijumpers and what they actually thought was 100% proof of life is actually a moderately uninteresting stone.
Rentahamster
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Really slim, imo. I'll settle for evidence of past life, or strong evidence of conditions that suggests a life-friendly ecosystem in the past.
If there was life on Mars in the past it's very likely that there still is life somewhere in some exotic environment. It is unlikely however that a land rover such as Curiosity could ever encounter it directly though.
Partial Gamification
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I'm hoping the word on the possiblities of past/present life on Mars is put forawrd before year's end. The Mars Reconnissance Orbiter will pass over the landing zone in the next four days or so for a better picture of the rover and Gale Crater.
astroturfing
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my guess is the cave systems. if they go really deep, harmful radiation might not reach whatever life might exist there.
Is exploring underground part of Curiosity's mission?
astroturfing
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i wish.
Heck, do we even know if mars has caves?
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