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WHY ONLY 2 MEGAPIXEL CAMERA, IS NINTENDO RUNNING NASA? LOOK AT THIS GRAINY PHOTO LOLOL
GroundCombo
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That's a lot of rocks.
ON MARS.
ON MARS.
Tried to take the high-res original and make it look like the balanced one.
12677x1800, 7MB (should look real nice on a Retina Macbook Pro)
BruiserBear
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Do you really think there are other world governments spending that much more than NASA each year.
Sad that we'll never team up with the Chinese; could really do some amazing missions partnered with them.
Partial Gamification
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This is from 19 Jan 2011, so even as it is dated, I think it demonstrates the effort for cooperative activities:
10. The United States and China agreed to take specific actions to deepen dialogue and exchanges in the field of space. The United States invited a Chinese delegation to visit NASA headquarters and other appropriate NASA facilities in 2011 to reciprocate for the productive visit of the U.S. NASA Administrator to China in 2010. The two sides agreed to continue discussions on opportunities for practical future cooperation in the space arena, based on principles of transparency, reciprocity, and mutual benefit.
Much of US-China rivalry is based on questionable long-term economic perspectives with a hint of jingoism.
SniperHunter
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amazing indeed
StoppedInTracks
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:O :O :O
And people are telling me there is not a single microbe/ bacteria/ worm under that beatiful rocky Martian soil?
Bullshit. We did not dig deep enough yet.
And people are telling me there is not a single microbe/ bacteria/ worm under that beatiful rocky Martian soil?
Bullshit. We did not dig deep enough yet.
PjotrStroganov
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OMG it's a pencil!
It's kind of funny you say that. A handful of months after that statement, some moronic Congressmen banned NASA and some other US science entities from collaborating with China. I think the ban might have expired after a year, though. I'm not sure.
edit: Here.
really is a shame that there isn't something else there to take a video of Curiosity as it starts to drive off.
Why haven't they invented a little rechargeable hover cam yet that flies around to gather video and topograhy data and can record the rover as it goes about it's business.
Why haven't they invented a little rechargeable hover cam yet that flies around to gather video and topograhy data and can record the rover as it goes about it's business.
PjotrStroganov
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An outboard camera would have been a good idea from a PR perspective. They're getting better at planning these things for public interest impact, but not to the point of compromising the science work they can do. (With weight limits, adding anything would have meant removing other things.)
On one hand, I'm happier that way; on the other hand, it would grab people more viscerally if they could see the rover driving around on Mars.
One of the things included in the software update is improved panorama program, so it will capture more of the sky and mountaintops.
On one hand, I'm happier that way; on the other hand, it would grab people more viscerally if they could see the rover driving around on Mars.
One of the things included in the software update is improved panorama program, so it will capture more of the sky and mountaintops.
You need to change the I to E, example,
0003ML0000125000E1_DXXX.
Like,
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00003/mcam/0003ML0000137000I1_DXXX.jpg
Change that to an E
0003ML0000125000E1_DXXX.
Like,
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00003/mcam/0003ML0000137000I1_DXXX.jpg
Change that to an E
AstroNut325
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The shot with the wheel has amazing dynamic range!
EarsOfASnake
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It creeps me out a little knowing Curiosity is the only active thing (to our knowledge) in such a desolate place. I can imagine the noise of motors etc echoing out much like the beginning of Star Wars when R2 is roaming about.
Trickster
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My guess would be lack of a proper atmosphere. As well as a lack of energy to power such a vechicle for very long. Guessing the rover also drives as slow as it does because anything else would be very inneficient.
Tesseract
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Amazing.
Looks a lot like a very dry area here on Earth.
the laws of physics, they are everywhere. what an amazing image.
Mackenzie 92
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Brighter than I would have imagined.
I don't really know anything about quantum entanglment, but couldn't it still theoretically help communications once it's launched, right? Entangle them on earth, launch the thing, and then once it's on Mars it can instantaneously send data back. Even if it hasn't been tested at such large distances, that's the direction we want to go.
Partial Gamification
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Yeah spies are not going away. The meetings are after the incidents cited in the Forbes article. There are benefits and costs of any relationship. Hopefully, an approach that comes out of the middle path of honest preferences of the peoples will benefit both, and others involved too. Perhaps it is just wishful thinking.
Also:
[The scientists] entangled photons by stimulating a crystal with ultraviolet light, producing a pair of photons with the same wavelength, but opposite polarisation values.
Using these photons, the researchers copied the quantum state from the laboratory to the far station, achieving quantum teleportation over a much larger distance than the previous record of 16 kilometres.
Insane Metal
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Well... I know I'm daring a lot now... but come on... doesn't it look like that was water? Of course, a ridiculously small amount, but still. It's coming right out of the edges...
this made me laugh harder than it should have
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Blame the Chinese for acting like idiots, it the same general reason Norinco handgun, ammo, and rifles can't be imported here anymore.
GroundCombo
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(disclaimer: not a physicist)
No, because you can't determine the exact state of the particle until it is measured. So you have an entangled pair, one photon on Earth and one on Mars; you then measure, say, the spin of the Earth photon and get the result "up". Now you know that the spin of the Mars photon instantly settled to "down" as the quantum state decohered, but that doesn't help you in any way because you didn't know what the state was going to be.
The entanglement phenomenon has been tested a lot and we can do some nifty stunts with it, but information transfer is sadly a no-go. Quantum teleportation in this context basically means transfering the state of one system to another, and you still need to ship some classical, i.e. non-quantum, bits over to do that.
PjotrStroganov
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I've come to some mind bending conclusions from previous missions but these shots do make me realize it all over.
to celebrate this great scientific endeavor, i have upgraded the nicholson nod.
its beautiful...
It's not the only active thing. They should do a Rover party! Or pictures of each other (not possible, but would be cool)
It's not the only active thing. They should do a Rover party! Or pictures of each other (not possible, but would be cool)
Rover meetup would be glorious.
I was out of town since Thursday! Did I miss anything amazing (I'm sure I did)? I'm going to read the last page of the thread, but if anyone has caught anything I should know about, please post.
Kinda OT, but I caught the Perseids on Saturday night/Sunday morning, and man, amazing stuff.
Kinda OT, but I caught the Perseids on Saturday night/Sunday morning, and man, amazing stuff.
Insane Metal
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Well... I know I'm daring a lot now... but come on... doesn't it look like that was water? Of course, a ridiculously small amount, but still. It's coming right out of the edges...
Quoting for new page... can anyone tell me what you think?
Leeroy3101
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Looks like NASA airbrushed something? I'm not sure. There's definitely something there. I inverted the color of the image and there's definitely a line of something.
What i think? Water on Mars surface? On ground that has been dry for who knows how many millions of years?
Insane. You chose your username well.
DrForester
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Well... I know I'm daring a lot now... but come on... doesn't it look like that was water? Of course, a ridiculously small amount, but still. It's coming right out of the edges...
Probably just machine marks from the metal when they constructed the wheels.
There's another rover active on Mars that's been going since 2004, and there are 3 satellites in orbit (4 if next years mission goes well).
Such a beautiful juxtaposition of technology and barrenness. My new phone wallpaper.
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Vilix
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And curiosity runs over the other overs. Like a Monster Roversoures. This sunday Sunday, SUNDAY!!
A some small rocks brushed up against the dust that collected on the wheel during landing.
Insane Metal
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What i think? Water on Mars surface? On ground that has been dry for who knows how many millions of years?
Insane. You chose your username well.
Opportunity had water droplets on its body. There's even a picture showing it. I just can't find it.
evilromero
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I absolutely love these latest images. I can almost feel the textures on the ground. So amazing.
Ether_Snake
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Looks more like water marks. The dark outlines definitely indicate that it's not "rubbed off dirt" by rocks.
Yep. And it's probably what caused the marks on the wheels too. Funny a lot of people think we never found water on Mars. There's ice all over the poles Ice melts, travels into the earth, evaporates, goes back to the poles, etc.
http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2009/03/21/drip-drop-mars-style/
Yep. And it's probably what caused the marks on the wheels too. Funny a lot of people think we never found water on Mars. There's ice all over the poles
Ice melts, travels into the earth, evaporates, goes back to the poles, etc.
http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2009/03/21/drip-drop-mars-style/
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