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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory |OT| 2,000 Pounds of Science!
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lololHad to be done.
Touch down.
perfectchaos007
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So next week they are going to start driving the rover around the landscape right?
I think (but can't find a source) that they plan to start roving on Sol 15 or Monday.
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OMG new photos!
Ooops no they are from Viking, taken in the 70s. Just a few years after landing on the moon.
Ooops no they are from Viking, taken in the 70s. Just a few years after landing on the moon.
PantherLotus
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what?
Ether_Snake
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WOW!!
*Based off of Viking photos.
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So yes, Photoshopped. Nice touch-up, though! Looks awesome.
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*Based off of Viking photos.
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So yes, Photoshopped. Nice touch-up, though! Looks awesome.
It's not "based on viking 1 photo, photoshopped", it's: "This image was acquired at the Viking lander 1 site with camera number 1."
It's a NASA photo.
I stand corrected! Sorry!
Very nice! I actually had never seen this photo before. That's an awesome shot! Amazing photos for the very first images from Mars. I really hope Curiosity vindicates the results for biological life they found during the Viking missions.
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Did you know the Russians landed on Venus and took pictures?
Venera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
This image IS color-corrected, the original is black and white
It's funny how people have no idea how much was done in a few years in the 60s/70s and so little since.
ESA landed on Saturn's moon, Titan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft)
Venera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
The Venera (Cyrillic: Венераseries probes were developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather data from Venus, Venera being the Russian name for Venus. As with some of the Soviet Union's other planetary probes, the later versions were launched in pairs with a second vehicle being launched soon after the first of the pair.
Ten probes from the Venera series successfully landed on Venus and transmitted data from the surface, including the two Vega program and Venera-Halley probes. In addition, thirteen Venera probes successfully transmitted data from the atmosphere of Venus.
Among the other results, probes of the series became the first man-made devices to enter the atmosphere of another planet (Venera 4 on October 18, 1967), to make a soft landing on another planet (Venera 7 on December 15, 1970), to return images from the planetary surface (Venera 9 on June 8, 1975), and to perform high-resolution radar mapping studies of Venus (Venera 15 on June 2, 1983). So, the entire series could be considered highly successful. Unfortunately the surface conditions on Venus are extreme, which meant that the probes only survived on the surface for a duration of 23 minutes (initial probes) up to about two hours (final probes).
This image IS color-corrected, the original is black and white
It's funny how people have no idea how much was done in a few years in the 60s/70s and so little since.
ESA landed on Saturn's moon, Titan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft)
Sure did! Also some of my favorite photos. The pics from the Venera missions are some of the more fascinating photos because they are the only images of the surface of Venus that we've ever seen. Hopefully we'll figure out some way to withstand the pressure and send a new lander there in the near future.
The Huygens lander on Titan is one of my favorite space missions so far. The pics it sent back are some of the coolest I've seen. Pics of a shoreline from as far out in the solar system as Saturn is just mind boggling.
Demoncarnotaur
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Wow, I have not seen a lot of these photos until now.. They are really amazing.
Man, if I had as much money as him, I'd just pay NASA to send me somewhere.
My jaw dropped in the beginning when the heat shield came off and then dropped again when the dust kicked up at the end. :O
It's not full quality yet, not all the full frames have been received yet, which is why the framerate is so slow at the start.
That being (anally) said, HOLY SHIT that was amazing!
And man, dat camera.
The atmosphere, but it should be noted that it's a black and white picture that have been colored.
If you could see the sun from Venus, it would appear about 50% larger than on earth.
Demon Lizardman
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Man, why are some of our neighborly planets so desolate?
what were you expecting? plants and water?
Because they're not in the habitable zone.
Well, that's an oversimplification. It's also because they don't have the right amount of atmospheric pressure or gravity to sustain liquid water.
Grinchy
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I'm so blown away by this landing. These people were able build something that brought what is basically a car ~350 million miles away from Earth, precisely slow down its descent, and land it perfectly on the Mars surface. It's unthinkable.
India is going to send a satellite to MARS in 2013. Costs: $ 66 million estimated.
Considering the thickness of Venus' atmosphere, we should send a balloon
http://spaceref.com/venus/venus-an-engineering-problem.html
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Well, I mean like to float above the clouds and take more detailed radar images than what we have now
Edit: DAFUQ...it has the biggest atmosphere after Jupiter? Bigger than Saturn, Uranus and Neptune? DAFUQ?
This image IS color-corrected, the original is black and white
Russian Venus probes were awesome. They showed us the true state of Venus environment for the first time.
Short podcast that covers that theme http://www.astronomycast.com/2012/05/ep-259-exploration-of-venus/
Not bigger (measured by its size) but more massive. In other words, it's so dense that even at its size it contains more mass than the atmosphere of those planets.
Oh I know, but still, still dude those other planets are all gas, and this one is more fucking massive? Its like a super dense gas giant.
yup, I also know that everything we know about Venus is thanks to the Russians.
Russian exploration of Venus is truly amazing. Its a shame no one will send probes there anytime soon.
http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
I would prefer we probe Uranus.
Partial Gamification
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Thanks for posting this. I saw it yesterday but wouldn't have gone back to go through it, had you not reminded me. I really like the "personality" of Curiosity.
Insane Metal
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LoL @ Log4Girls
BruiserBear
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Did you know the Russians landed on Venus and took pictures?
Venera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
This image IS color-corrected, the original is black and white
It's funny how people have no idea how much was done in a few years in the 60s/70s and so little since.
ESA landed on Saturn's moon, Titan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft)
I only recently learned about the landing on Titan, and I was surprised I had never heard of it before.
But until you posted that, I had no idea anyone had ever landed on Mercury, and sent back pictures! Crazy.
Isn't Venus a hellhole in comparison to Mars? Probably alot harder.
Castor Krieg
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Recently Steven Hawking predicted we need approx. 200-300 years till the beginning of interstellar flight, so if we won't go extinct in that time frame we will be fine. By the time Sun turns to red giant we will have sufficient tech to build ourselves a new star.
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