• Curiosity - Touchdown Confirmed!
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[QUOTE=Pelf;37171862]NASA thinks it's possible that it might be the dust cloud created by the explosion from the jetpack impacting the ground.[/QUOTE] Source on this?
[QUOTE=LarparNar;37166094]Maybe someone could rename it the "Curiosity Rover thread".[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Chubbles;37166061]Can we just keep this thread open for the next two years? This is like my primary source of Curiosity news and updates.[/QUOTE] [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1171448]We have the Space Thread which has a lot of news and stuff about space related things, including Curiosity of course.[/url]
Because it was a touchdown thread...it's not the OP's fault
[QUOTE=LarparNar;37171924]Source on this?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16042.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;37172526]Because it was a touchdown thread...it's not the OP's fault[/QUOTE] ...Why rate dumb?
[QUOTE=Robbi;37172617]...Why rate dumb?[/QUOTE] Isn't it the norm here to call people dumb for a) not knowing something or b) having a different opinion?
[QUOTE=Robbi;37172447][url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1171448]We have the Space Thread which has a lot of news and stuff about space related things, including Curiosity of course.[/url][/QUOTE] Uh yeah I mentioned the space thread.
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;37172692]b) having a different opinion?[/QUOTE] If you are 12, yes.
[QUOTE=Robbi;37172758]If you are 12, yes.[/QUOTE] Wrong. Almost everybody does it, I even bet you have at some point. I PM'ed you anyway.
[QUOTE=Pelf;37172573][url]http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16042.html[/url][/QUOTE] Oh wow, Aftonbladet should have picked the picture from your link.
So is there any video of the landing? Or livestream when it moves around on Mars?
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;37174168]So is there any video of the landing? Or livestream when it moves around on Mars?[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGMDXy-Y1I[/media]
-snip- goddamn ninjas
[video=youtube;8_-A5-lclQk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_-A5-lclQk&feature=plcp[/video] The image has already been posted. [editline]edit[/editline] Update on the rover: [video=youtube;kWHfx3kjihg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWHfx3kjihg[/video]
those stupid cg movies are so misleading. curiosity doesn't move that fast. like no probes do. it goes like the length of a tennis court in an hour. i think the record for most distance traveled by a rover is some soviet one that went to the moon and went 20ish miles
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;37175013]those stupid cg movies are so misleading. curiosity doesn't move that fast. like no probes do. it goes like the length of a tennis court in an hour. i think the record for most distance traveled by a rover is some soviet one that went to the moon and went 20ish miles[/QUOTE] [quote]maximum terrain-traverse speed is estimated to be 200 m (660 ft) per day by automatic navigation.[6][/quote] If she constantly does that for the entire mission, she'll get about 137km. She probably won't though, as she will do science as well which will probably slow her down
This may be NASA's last stride of exploration of space with the funding issues. I hope they take every ounce out time out of curiosity. We could use the information about that planet. And getting this landing successful just is another mile stone in future landings to further places with even bigger delays in response.
[QUOTE=CubeManv2;37180774]This may be NASA's last stride of exploration of space with the funding issues. I hope they take every ounce out time out of curiosity. We could use the information about that planet. And getting this landing successful just is another mile stone in future landings to further places with even bigger delays in response.[/QUOTE] Not really. NASA does a ton of exploration. We got SLS coming, with the Orion capsule, we got a UAV designed to fly on mars, we got two brand new space telescopes, we got a lot coming yet. [editline]11th August 2012[/editline] I mean, take a look through this: [url]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/index.cfm[/url] Particularly the Current, Future, and Proposed categories. [editline]11th August 2012[/editline] These two are related to the subject: [quote]The InSight mission (formerly called GEMS) is a proposed mission to place a lander on Mars that would drill beneath the surface to investigate the planet's deep interior and the processes that shape all terrestrial planets. [b]Launch date:[/b] 03/2016[/quote] [quote]Mars Sample Return is a proposed mission to return samples from the surface of Mars to Earth. [b]Launch date:[/b] To Be Determined.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;37168382]I wish Carl Sagan were here. :([/QUOTE] We all do. I'm sure he'd be really happy to see what were doing nowadays.
[QUOTE=CubeManv2;37180774]This may be NASA's last stride of exploration of space with the funding issues. I hope they take every ounce out time out of curiosity. We could use the information about that planet. And getting this landing successful just is another mile stone in future landings to further places with even bigger delays in response.[/QUOTE] I'm tired of this shit, NASA isn't being killed off, pretty much every politician realizes that this would be absolutely terrible. Problem is they're not getting enough to do all the things they (and even some of the politicians) want to do.
I'm on vacation in the northern parts of Norway to visit my family so I can't update the original post. I'm sorry.
[QUOTE=farmatyr;37185569]I'm on vacation in the northern parts of Norway to visit my family so I can't update the original post. I'm sorry.[/QUOTE] at least you'll get to see the borealis
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;37185782]at least you'll get to see the borealis[/QUOTE] It's summer. I don't think its dark there yet, at least not a lot of darkness. but a new pic from Curiosity. [thumb]http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia16051_figure_1_raw_smaller-full.jpg[/thumb]
Thumbnail it for christ's sake
It's so odd to see Mars just like... This. As though it's just a place somewhere on Earth.
[img]http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00003/mcam/0003ML0000125000E1_DXXX.jpg[/img]
the puny martian bacteria will be crushed under the treads of the glorious human war machine [img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-hist101.gif[/img] [editline]12th August 2012[/editline] SPQT motherfuckers
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;37196858]the puny martian bacteria will be crushed under the treads of the glorious human war machine [IMG]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-hist101.gif[/IMG] [editline]12th August 2012[/editline] SPQT motherfuckers[/QUOTE] Aaaaaaand now I'm imagining Space Marines running across Mars screaming "Senatus populusque Terra!".
Software update should be finished this afternoon. [URL]http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230240/NASA_s_Mars_Curiosity_software_upgrade_nearly_complete?taxonomyId=18[/URL]
Someone added a 360 panorama of the landing site on [url=http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2]360cities[/url] using NASA's images.
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