Tonight, NASA's Curiosity rover touches down on Mars
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I'm excited. Also nervous.
9:16 now
Here weeee go!
oh god please please please land for the sake of humanity
Layers of rock in the crater. I wonder if we'll find fossils.
I gotta take a piss but I don't wanna miss a second of this.
6:21; completely worth it.
I should try to recreate this in Kerbal Space Program.
daww this animated video is so cute
Schrodinger's Curiosity
I really hope everything goes as planned. It' be a huge letdown if something happen to poor old curiosity :(
Holy crap that wheel.
rollin with sum 22's
Wow Curiosity is a massively bigger rover in comparison.
iirc the the pattern on the wheel says jpl in morse code
you see that guy's mohawk?
I stayed up all night for this because a friend on Skype said it was at 3:00 am GMT:0
It's now 5:31 and i feel like death.
My own exploration in the kitchen yielded the following results;
Cheap multigrain aldi hoops
6 pack of coke
Lucozade 1 ltr
2 full fat yoghurts
pure orange juice 1ltr
1lr of spring water
3 bags of cheese and onion chrisps
4 tangerines
some wine gums
This better not crash.
get some real time telemetry!
I'll be sitting here at 6:30am just to watch this. Fuck my appointment today, this shit is monumental. :v:
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;37099429]get some real time telemetry![/QUOTE]
its 14 minute delayed telemetry :(
damnit physics
Does anyone know the distance between Earth and Mars in light minutes currently? I mean, it can differ between 4.5 light minutes to 20 light minutes depending on relative positions.
[QUOTE=Kendra;37099436]Does anyone know the distance between Earth and Mars in light minutes currently? I mean, it can differ between 4.5 light minutes to 20 light minutes depending on relative positions.[/QUOTE]
7 lm
[QUOTE=Kendra;37099436]Does anyone know the distance between Earth and Mars in light minutes currently? I mean, it can differ between 4.5 light minutes to 20 light minutes depending on relative positions.[/QUOTE]
14 earth minutes if that helps
use a calculator
[QUOTE=jordguitar;37099445]14 earth minutes if that helps
use a calculator[/QUOTE]
delay in earth minutes = distance there and back = half for distance there, therefore 7 lm
[QUOTE=jordguitar;37099445]14 earth minutes if that helps
use a calculator[/QUOTE]
That's all great but the distance between Mars and Earth isn't uniform throughout every day.
I know the data is radio waves that will take 14 minutes and that sucks balls.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;37099441]7 lm[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Kendra;37099436]Does anyone know the distance between Earth and Mars in light minutes currently? I mean, it can differ between 4.5 light minutes to 20 light minutes depending on relative positions.[/QUOTE]
14 I THINK
[QUOTE=Kendra;37099455]That's all great but the distance between Mars and Earth isn't uniform throughout every day.[/QUOTE]
well they are using radio waves so it takes 14 minutes for data to arrive at earth from mars. easier to use that.
