Curiosity begins the long drive to its primary mission destination - Polidicks

[QUOTE=mblunk;41366844]Curiosity's RTG power source generates ~125 watts, just enough to light two standard 60 W incandescent light bulbs. One horsepower is 745 W, yet the rover weighs 1980 pounds, so it's kind of like a mini cooper with a 0.2 horsepower engine. Mini coopers aren't even fast with the stock 110hp i4...[/QUOTE] My power hungry AMD Phenom could barely run off that.

[QUOTE=demoguy08;41368377]If the robot is on Mars how did they get that picture??? i knew it it's all done in a studio just like the original 'moon landing' edit how dare you rate me dumb?? can you prove me wrong? no? didn't think so![/QUOTE] selfies on mars~~~

[QUOTE=demoguy08;41368377]If the robot is on Mars how did they get that picture??? i knew it it's all done in a studio just like the original 'moon landing' edit how dare you rate me dumb?? can you prove me wrong? no? didn't think so![/QUOTE] Curiosity can take selfies, and then when the guys down at NASA has it, they photoshop away the thing holding up the camera. Like this: [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/PIA16239_High-Resolution_Self-Portrait_by_Curiosity_Rover_Arm_Camera_square.jpg[/t]

Isn't it just a 3D rendering?

So what, it's been fucking around this whole time and [B]now[/B] it's going to work? Well, at least we know for fucking sure who's NOT gonna get employee of the month award.

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;41369516]I'm honestly having a hard time telling if you're being sarcastic or not. Regardless, the image in the OP is a mock-up before the rover was sent to Mars. Kind of looks like it might be CGI, actually.[/QUOTE] Obviously I'm pulling your leg, just making a joke out of people who actually say these things.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;41373420]Isn't it just a 3D rendering?[/QUOTE] its panorama

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;41373420]Isn't it just a 3D rendering?[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;b2rwWECbEHg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2rwWECbEHg[/video]

Keep on chugging little rover "But whatever the reason you're on Mars is, I'm glad you're there. And I wish I was with you" -Sagan

If only Sagan was still alive... :(

Good luck little guy! You can do it. Remember to floss and clean your solar panels or you'll wind up like Spirit!

[QUOTE=Samg381;41377298]Good luck little guy! You can do it. Remember to floss and clean your solar panels or you'll wind up like Spirit![/QUOTE] It has no solar panels.

[QUOTE=JXZ;41366211]why does it move so slowly?[/QUOTE] They're being really fucking careful, plus signals take 5 to 25 minutes to get to Mars and the same again back.

[QUOTE=Samg381;41377298]Good luck little guy! You can do it. Remember to floss and clean your solar panels or you'll wind up like Spirit![/QUOTE] that rover is the size of a mini van. it's anything but little. [editline]9th July 2013[/editline] also it's just so weird to think we sent something of our own technology to another fucking planet.

[QUOTE=MenteR;41378259]that rover is the size of a mini van. it's anything but little. [editline]9th July 2013[/editline] also it's just so weird to think we sent something of our own technology to another fucking planet.[/QUOTE] well it's not as weird as something like the huygens probe, the only thing to land on another moon beside our own, and the source of the only photo we have from the surface of a body which isn't mars

It's pretty funny how in 6 months the rover hasn't really left the ~about 60-100 meter radius from where it landed, if I'm not mistaken.

[QUOTE=Bat-shit;41378772]It's pretty funny how in 6 months the rover hasn't really left the ~about 60-100 meter radius from where it landed, if I'm not mistaken.[/QUOTE] Yeah, but it's accomplished a lot in that time. The landing procedure (skycrane) was unprecedented and, now that it's proven successful, will be used in the future. In addition to that, it's the first rover to successfully drill into an alien planet to take samples, it has proven that water once used to flow on Mars (and has even managed convincing evidence that the water would have been drinkable by US), and it has successfully determined that radiation levels are potentially safe enough for human colonists. Damned cool stuff.

[QUOTE=Eltro102;41378753]well it's not as weird as something like the huygens probe, the only thing to land on another moon beside our own, and the source of the only photo we have from the surface of a body which isn't mars[/QUOTE] we got pictures of the surface of venus from an 80s soviet probe too! this is one of them: [t]http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys301/lectures/ter_planets/venus_surface.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=MenteR;41380241]we got pictures of the surface of venus from an 80s soviet probe too! this is one of them: [t]http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys301/lectures/ter_planets/venus_surface.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Oh god Venus is so hot that I can see the probe melting.

[QUOTE=MenteR;41380241]we got pictures of the surface of venus from an 80s soviet probe too! this is one of them: [t]http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys301/lectures/ter_planets/venus_surface.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] oh yeah, I forgot about that, venus really looks a lot like earth huh