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[Leeroy3101]

The video with the music made my day. Someone should do a Sagan voice overlay on it.

 

[AndyD]

Indeed. What is the persistent dark dot in the video (mostly top left of center), is it a calibrating spot for the camera?

Agreed this is amazing.

Also can anybody give a summary about the scientific discoveries all those mars missions made? Things that we now know thanks to those missions.

This mission, it just started?

 

[BruiserBear]

Amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esj5juUzhpU&feature=youtu.be

That's impressive. I wish it could have recorded sound too. Would have been so cool to hear the jets firing, wind rushing, etc.

 

[Bollocks]

This mission, it just started?

Nah, all of them, think they started in '75?

 

[RiZ III]

Is the sound in that video real or was it just added on for effect because I didn't know that the rover captured sound.

 

[Lucky Forward]

Is the sound in that video real or was it just added on for effect because I didn't know that the rover captured sound.

The sound was added:

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.co...ver-team-spills-mission-details-on-reddit.php

Unlike the previous stationary probe, the Mars Phoenix Lander, which landed on the Red Planet in 2009, the Mars Curiosity Rover doesn’t have an onboard microphone, as Keri Bean, the scientist in charge of the rover’s twin mast cameras, or Mastcam, explained: “We took a microphone on the Phoenix Mars Lander, and we turned it on but essentially heard nothing (white noise) so it was never released. We don’t really need it for any experiments.”

 

[Like the hat?]

I actually find the original, non smoothed out version much more compelling

 

[mackaveli]

Teleconference starts in 7 minutes for those interested.

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

 

[FACE]

Mars Curiosity Rover’s Landing Video Now In Ultra HD

MIND BLOWN!

Muzak at the Nasa stream

 

[gutshot]

Nah, all of them, think they started in '75?

Here you go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars

 

[gutshot]

Lots of new pics and stuff...

Here is the path Curiosity has traveled so far.

Here is a pic of the rover using its arm to analyze a nearby rock.

This image shows the robotic arm of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity with the first rock touched by an instrument on the arm. The rover's right Navigation Camera (Navcam) took this image during the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Sept. 22, 2012). On that sol, the rover placed the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument onto the rock to assess what chemical elements were present in the rock. The rock is named "Jake Matijevic" in commemoration of influential Mars-rover engineer Jacob Matijevic (1947-2012).

And here are some pics of the Martian moon Phobos. First, as it traverses the sun, and secondly, as a crescent in the Martian sky.

 

[Ovid]

Mars Curiosity Rover’s Landing Video Now In Ultra HD

Love it.

 

[ghostmind]

That last pic is surreal - have we ever had an image of a moon from the surface of another planet before?

 

[gutshot]

That last pic is surreal - have we ever had an image of a moon from the surface of another planet before?

Spirit took some pics of Phobos and Deimos before, but it was only at night, I think.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050909a.html

 

[Bisnic]

Mars Curiosity Rover’s Landing Video Now In Ultra HD

Is all the sound in this video fake? I thought there was no mic on that thing.

Pretty impressive otherwise.

 

[Insane Metal]

Is all the sound in this video fake? I thought there was no mic on that thing.

Pretty impressive otherwise.

Yes it's fake.

 

[jgkspsx]

The eclipse is super cool, but I'm in love with this.

 

[forgeforsaken]

Evidence of old stream bed found.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120927.html

 

[gutshot]

Evidence of old stream bed found.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120927.html

I'd say this deserves a new thread.

 

[Insane Metal]

Awesome.

Now do a chemical analysis of that rock. kthx

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Weather On Mars Surprisingly Warm, Curiosity Rover Finds.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is enjoying some nice, warm weather on the Red Planet — and spring hasn't even come to its landing site yet.

Curiosity's onboard weather station, which is called the Remote Environment Monitoring Station (REMS), has measured air temperatures as high as 43 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) in the afternoon. And temperatures have climbed above freezing during more than half of the Martian days, or sols, since REMS was turned on, scientists said.

These measurements are a bit unexpected, since it's still late winter at Gale Crater, the spot 4.5 degrees south of the Martian equator where Curiosity touched down on Aug. 5.

That we are seeing temperatures this warm already during the day is a surprise and very interesting," Felipe Gómez, of the Centro de Astrobiología in Madrid, said in a statement.

More here: http://www.space.com/17828-mars-weather-curiosity-rover-discovery.html

 

[Like the hat?]

That's pretty crazy, damn

 

[Mudkips]

Weather On Mars Surprisingly Warm, Curiosity Rover Finds.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is enjoying some nice, warm weather on the Red Planet — and spring hasn't even come to its landing site yet.

Curiosity's onboard weather station, which is called the Remote Environment Monitoring Station (REMS), has measured air temperatures as high as 43 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) in the afternoon. And temperatures have climbed above freezing during more than half of the Martian days, or sols, since REMS was turned on, scientists said.

These measurements are a bit unexpected, since it's still late winter at Gale Crater, the spot 4.5 degrees south of the Martian equator where Curiosity touched down on Aug. 5.

That we are seeing temperatures this warm already during the day is a surprise and very interesting," Felipe Gómez, of the Centro de Astrobiología in Madrid, said in a statement.

More here: http://www.space.com/17828-mars-weather-curiosity-rover-discovery.html

Global warming just went interplanetary.

 

[BruiserBear]

Global warming just went interplanetary.

haha

 

[Clydefrog]

The Martians can't control their CO2 emissions either!

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

It's all the methane, damn farting microbes.

 

[Insane Metal]

WTF. Those are impressively good news!

 

[Leeroy3101]

Do we know is this is happening all over the planet? Did the two previous rovers not have this capability?

 

[Slayer-33]

Temps in the 40's? Holy shit? New earth son.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

I don't see how anyone could think there's a cooler job than being a NASA scientist.

Name any job you've ever had where getting proof that you've been making the wrong assumptions for years made your career.

 

[Log4Girlz]

I don't see how anyone could think there's a cooler job than being a NASA scientist.

Name any job you've ever had where getting proof that you've been making the wrong assumptions for years made your career.

Porn star is a pretty cool job.

 

[abstract alien]

My God, that video nearly put a lump in my throat.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Porn star is a pretty cool job.

Well there goes the last remaining doubts I had about your username.

 

[Log4Girlz]

Well there goes the last remaining doubts I had about your username.

I've never had doubts about yours

 

[lilbaby Jesus]

Well there goes the last remaining doubts I had about your username.

Haha..that's great. I literally laughed out loud after reading his username.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Temps in the 40's? Holy shit? New earth son.

The most insane part is that it's late winter.

 

[Insane Metal]

Don't forget that temps drop to -40C at night though.

 

[GaimeGuy]

Don't forget that temps drop to -40C at night though.

<Canada and Minnesota> So?

 

[Gorgon]

I don't see how anyone could think there's a cooler job than being a NASA scientist.

Name any job you've ever had where getting proof that you've been making the wrong assumptions for years made your career.

ANY science research job.

 

[Ikael]

6 Celsius degres during noon? But if there is ice in the Martian poles... and temperatures are above 0 Cº that means... woa, we need to terraform the shit out of that planet.

I don't see how anyone could think there's a cooler job than being a NASA scientist.

Name any job you've ever had where getting proof that you've been making the wrong assumptions for years made your career.

Economist *weeps in a corner*

 

[Maklershed]

Curiosity takes a pic of its footprint:

 

[Insane Metal]

Wow!!!

:/

Seriously, just find the microbial life and send us pics pls

 

[Grym]

While Curiosity's days are relatively pleasant weather-wise, the same can't be said for the rover's nights. Air temperatures drop dramatically after the sun goes down, plunging as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 Celsius) just before dawn, scientists said.

Such big swings occur because the effects of solar heating are much more pronounced on Mars than they are on Earth. The Red Planet's surface is much drier, and its atmosphere is just 1 percent as thick as Earth's.

Nice warm days, but freeze-your-ass-off nights

that's quite the range in temps during a Sol cycle!

 

[Insane Metal]

Just a heads up, conference today @ 2pm EDT.

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

 

[Insane Metal]

It will start in a moment!

 

[Like the hat?]

bleh, for some reason I thought it was 2 pacific

 

[Insane Metal]

I had time just for half of the conf, and honestly, nothing really interesting.

 

[Neo C.]

There's a silver thing on the ground. Curiosity is going to look closer at it, but it's probably just junk.

 

[BruiserBear]

There's a silver thing on the ground. Curiosity is going to look closer at it, but it's probably just junk.

Interesting. I'm curious to find out what it is.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Interesting. I'm curious to find out what it is.

I prob. would not have even noticed this.