I have NASA TV on and they're showing color pictures taken from EDL. Pictures as it was falling before touchdown. Right now all they've shown was the heat shield falling away.
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[url]http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html[/url]
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VIDEO OF EDL FROM ROVER POV WOOOOOOOOO (from heat shield drop)
[QUOTE=gta-man12345;37112358]Look at the google doodle again.[/QUOTE]
Javelin thrower?
nvm, i refreshed and now it's there instead of the blimp.
[QUOTE=jeimizu;37112975]Javelin thrower?[/QUOTE]
Look at the upper-left.
[QUOTE=gta-man12345;37112925][video=youtube;UcGMDXy-Y1I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGMDXy-Y1I[/video][/QUOTE]
THat is just so fucking cool.
[QUOTE=gta-man12345;37112925][video=youtube;UcGMDXy-Y1I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGMDXy-Y1I[/video][/QUOTE]
Holy shit badass. I didn't know it took pictures on descent.
Wish it had audio. I want to hear the winds of mars!
looks surreal
[QUOTE=OvB;37113211]Wish it had audio. I want to hear the winds of mars![/QUOTE]
I was just gonna say that too.
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;37108115]what kind of engineer
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and what kind of engineer are you
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(i am half way through a mechanical engineering with aeronautics degree)[/QUOTE]
Mechatronics second year.
Got 2 HNCs in mechanical and systems engineering.
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[QUOTE=Swebonny;37107889]If we glue ourselves together we'll become an organic Curiosity rover.[/QUOTE]
This is a great idea.
[QUOTE=OvB;37101765]Do we have confirmation the Bus survival?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/CgAZV.png[/img]
[b]Holy shit![/b]
I am told this is phoenix lander BTW neat huh? :D
[IMG]http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080604/images/453712a-i2.0.jpg[/IMG]
God, stuff like this makes me so excited to be going to College for Engineering. The best part? I am probably going to University of Washington which is in Seattle, an epicenter for some of the new and developing space companies(including planetary resources!). Also, I have several friends whose parents work for Boeing and said they could get me a possible internship. Its win-win :dance:
I haven't seen this particular image posted yet. It has the rover on parachute descent (posted) and the rover resting on the ground (not yet posted):
[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/673982main_PIA15993-43_full.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Pelf;37114697]I haven't seen this particular image posted yet. It has the rover on parachute descent (posted) and the rover resting on the ground (not yet posted):
[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/673982main_PIA15993-43_full.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
It's 2 pages back.
That's actually the crashed heat shield I think. The rover should still be under the aero shell at that point.
[QUOTE=OvB;37114848]That's actually the crashed heat shield I think. The rover should still be under the aero shell at that point.[/QUOTE]
it is not actually crashed yet. it is still falling. pictures of the rover on the ground will be tomorrow at some point.
[QUOTE=gta-man12345;37112925][video=youtube;UcGMDXy-Y1I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGMDXy-Y1I[/video][/QUOTE]That's too surreal, wow, hard to believe that's coming from another planet right next to us..
These images and [I]videos[/I] are absolutely amazing.
Truly stunning.
Then you'll like this:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ijyo1.jpg[/img]
[quote=JPL]This view of the landscape to the north of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was acquired by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the afternoon of the first day after landing. (The team calls this day Sol 1, which is the first Martian day of operations; Sol 1 began on Aug. 6, 2012.)
In the distance, the image shows the north wall and rim of Gale Crater. The image is murky [/quote]
[QUOTE=OvB;37117987]Then you'll like this:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ijyo1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Hehe, I know.
One of the first (if not [I]the[/I] first?) true color image from another planet.
I'm actually pretty sure the other rovers are just approximate true color.
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I might be wrong, I just got out of bed, still not 100% awake :v:
Aeolis Mons (Mount Sharp)
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nLaIC.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=H4wkeye;37119755]Aoelis Mons (Mount Sharp)
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nLaIC.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
It looks so small! Silly perspectives screwing with me.
Its been almost a day and a half since the landing
I still can't get over how they used a fucking jet pack with a sky crane to lower a rover the size of a min cooper on mars, such an awesome feat of engineering
[QUOTE=Saxon;37120223]Its been almost a day and a half since the landing
I still can't get over how they used a fucking jet pack with a sky crane to lower a rover the size of a min cooper on mars, such an awesome feat of engineering[/QUOTE]
When they first announced that, I just thought that this will never work.
I'm so glad they proved me wrong.
It would be so epic that once the first humans go to Mars and land there, if they could find and pick up some of the rovers and return them to Earth. That would be so amazing. Or at least one rover. Put it in a museum or something.
[QUOTE=H4wkeye;37120781]It would be so epic that once the first humans go to Mars and land there, if they could find and pick up some of the rovers and return them to Earth. That would be so amazing. Or at least one rover. Put it in a museum or something.[/QUOTE]
They will probably repair the broken rover
[QUOTE=skeligandrew;37120830]They will probably repair the broken rover[/QUOTE]
It belongs in a museum!
[url=http://blogs.plos.org/retort/2012/08/05/why-the-sky-crane-isnt-the-future-for-mars-landings/]Here[/url] is an interesting read about NASA's sky crane and why it most likely won't be used in future missions.
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