SniperHunter
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory |OT| 2,000 Pounds of Science!
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hopefully a bone fragment!
lilbaby Jesus
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Tell me about it lol I still can't see it.(Viewing from my phone)
There's a silver thing on the ground. Curiosity is going to look closer at it, but it's probably just junk.
Or a silver looking rock. Megaton!
WeAreStarStuff
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Is the person on the right of your avatar Carl Sagan?
That would be quite cool and awful at the same time.
Maklershed
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The top of a car antennae!
orientalNoodle
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There's a silver thing on the ground. Curiosity is going to look closer at it, but it's probably just junk.
Unobtainium?
Insane Metal
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Probably just some part of Curiosity that fell apart. A screw, or something else.
Edit: it's just some plastic that fell from it, probably some part of the wiring protection
Edit: it's just some plastic that fell from it, probably some part of the wiring protection
SniperHunter
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looks like a mini reaper to me.
SniperHunter
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you don't think so? ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL!holy shit
WeAreStarStuff
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Probably just some part of Curiosity that fell apart. A screw, or something else.
Edit: it's just some plastic that fell from it, probably some part of the wiring protection
Somewhere on the internet this is a conspiracy; I can guarantee it.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Probably just some part of Curiosity that fell apart. A screw, or something else.
Edit: it's just some plastic that fell from it, probably some part of the wiring protection
Um... that is clearly a gum wrapper that the "NASA" soundstage guys mistakenly dropped. They are so incompetent, I can easily pick all their amateur hour videos apart.
I think the "pretty pictures" in themselves are somewhat an achievement seeing as how they're the best quality pictures anyone has ever had of Mars. I think they're just now starting up the sciencey stuff though.
Probably just some part of Curiosity that fell apart. A screw, or something else.
Edit: it's just some plastic that fell from it, probably some part of the wiring protection
Nice to see a close-up of Martian dirt. It looks so soft!
Insane Metal
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And it is, it's many times thinner than Earthly dirt!
RumblingRosco
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I think you'd need an absolutely insane amount of some very expensive, light-weight materials to make it even remotely cost-effective, if you're thinking they would start going there to "mine" the planet for it's resources. The cost of space travel is nothing to sneeze at!
Insane Metal
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Wow, not posted yet?
More: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20121011.html
Mars Rock Touched by NASA Curiosity has Surprises
PASADENA, Calif. -- The first Martian rock NASA's Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions. The rock also resembles some unusual rocks from Earth's interior.
The rover team used two instruments on Curiosity to study the chemical makeup of the football-size rock called "Jake Matijevic" (matt-EE-oh-vick) The results support some surprising recent measurements and provide an example of why identifying rocks' composition is such a major emphasis of the mission. Rock compositions tell stories about unseen environments and planetary processes.
"This rock is a close match in chemical composition to an unusual but well-known type of igneous rock found in many volcanic provinces on Earth," said Edward Stolper of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who is a Curiosity co-investigator. "With only one Martian rock of this type, it is difficult to know whether the same processes were involved, but it is a reasonable place to start thinking about its origin."
On Earth, rocks with composition like the Jake rock typically come from processes in the planet's mantle beneath the crust, from crystallization of relatively water-rich magma at elevated pressure.
Jake was the first rock analyzed by the rover's arm-mounted Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument and about the thirtieth rock examined by the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument. Two penny-size spots on Jake were analyzed Sept. 22 by the rover's improved and faster version of earlier APXS devices on all previous Mars rovers, which have examined hundreds of rocks. That information has provided scientists a library of comparisons for what Curiosity sees.
"Jake is kind of an odd Martian rock," said APXS Principal Investigator Ralf Gellert of the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. "It's high in elements consistent with the mineral feldspar, and low in magnesium and iron."
More: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20121011.html
Its interplanetary exploration time.
Insane Metal
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A better picture of that silver thing (which is just plastic, probably from wire insulation)
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00065/mhli/0065MH0055000002R0_DXXX.jpg
edit - just the link, image is big. lol
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00065/mhli/0065MH0055000002R0_DXXX.jpg
edit - just the link, image is big. lol
WeAreStarStuff
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Use the quote function for large pictures
Loving the quality of these photos.
Insane Metal
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Damn I forgot about the resizing with quote! Thanks Face.
I was just looking through some very old random crap in my social networks and realized that my name (along with a million+ others) is currently on the rover which I had totally forgotten about. Did anyone else do this http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/ back in like mid-2009? Kinda cool
Don't you live there?
IIRC, I did that as well. Pretty need to see the world & US breakdown of the number of names submitted.
well....yeah...but I'm away picking up a few components for my Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator
Can you grab me a plasma cannon with 40 watt range?
timetokill
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Yup. Actually my name should be on there in 3 places, since I did the online form and also signed two things at NASA JPL -- one with my name printed, the other with my signature
THE:MILKMAN
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Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Partial Gamification
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Trying to haggle for some new wire insultaion and a coat of turtle wax.
DrForester
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So I have a teacher who works with the Mars Satellites telling us how JPL will randomly call them up to let them know they need to use their stuff for hours for uploads and downloads without much warning.
Leeroy3101
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Sort of a dick move. Talk about pulling rank.
robertsan21
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so this thread is not alive and kicking these days, what is happening with the rover?
no new big news?
no new big news?
OgTheClever
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Well it's eating dirt at the moment and found a shiny thing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20003236
Although this process has been going on for the last few days now and the rover won't be moving anywhere for at least a few more days.
Insane Metal
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Another conference in about 4 hours http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl 11:30am PDT.
Partial Gamification
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Thanks for posting this, I need to check the archive and catch-up.
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