Mars Rover Curiosity Sends First Full-Color Panorama of Its New Martian Home
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I still don't see what's so special about Mars.
Sending a rover of sorts into a black hole would be much more interesting.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;37188682]I still don't see what's so special about Mars.
Sending a rover of sorts into a black hole would be much more interesting.[/QUOTE]
Apart from the impossibility of sending anything to a black hole within any of our lifetimes, it would just break apart way before it reaches the black hole itself.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;37188682]I still don't see what's so special about Mars.
Sending a rover of sorts into a black hole would be much more interesting.[/QUOTE]
[b]What?[/b]
There's so much wrong with this post I can't even comprehend it.
Also Mars not interesting?
Seriously?
It's a whole other planet, millions of kilometers away, that in some ways is so similar to Earth that it's almost scary, yet in some ways incredibly different.
It's a different planet, it's a whole different goddamn [I]world[/I].
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;37188682]I still don't see what's so special about Mars.
Sending a rover of sorts into a black hole would be much more interesting.[/QUOTE]
A rover is something that can and explore the terrain of something. A black hole does not have a terrain. Even a probe would be ripped apart instantly. There is no black hole anywhere NEAR us. They're hard to find. Flying to one would take millennia. Mars is incredibly interesting and beautiful.
If you don't know what you're talking about then shut, the hell, up.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;37188682]I still don't see what's so special about Mars.[/QUOTE]
Do you want to see what's so special?
For starters there's a volcano the size of Arizona, visible from space.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Olympus_Mons_alt.jpg/643px-Olympus_Mons_alt.jpg[/IMG]
A giant gash in it's surface larger than the US.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Mars_Valles_Marineris.jpeg/250px-Mars_Valles_Marineris.jpeg[/IMG]
And fucking water:
[T]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/577359main_pia14472-946b.gif[/T]
[QUOTE=Nutt007;37189222]Do you want to see what's so special?
A giant gash in it's surface larger than the US.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Mars_Valles_Marineris.jpeg/250px-Mars_Valles_Marineris.jpeg[/IMG]
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Clearly the remnant of an ancient Mass Accelerator Cannon
[t]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmcpglyAUx1qzuqgfo1_1280.jpg[/t]
[sp]It's actually just a canyon[/sp]
I really hope they send a probe to Venus or something within my lifetime. I mean, yes, Mars is definitely cool and basically the most viable option for us to colonize on, but Venus is surrounded by a thick cloud of basically fucking [I]acid.[/I] Imagine if we could get a surface view of it.
The same could be said for any of the planets in our solar system and beyond, really.
[QUOTE=DemonDog;37189626]I really hope they send a probe to Venus or something within my lifetime. I mean, yes, Mars is definitely cool and basically the most viable option for us to colonize on, but Venus is surrounded by a thick cloud of basically fucking [I]acid.[/I] Imagine if we could get a surface view of it.
The same could be said for any of the planets in our solar system and beyond, really.[/QUOTE]
Would you have happened to have been born before 1975?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/BSlSm.png[/img]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_9[/url]
Can someone tell my why this is so enthralling, I mean yeah, it's another planet, which is great, but there's not much there but rocks and dust!
[QUOTE=Cheesedragon;37189731]Can someone tell my why this is so enthralling, I mean yeah, it's another planet, which is great, but there's not much there but rocks and dust![/QUOTE]
Well yeah, it doesn't look like much, but it's more about what it represents. We want to know more about our solar system and why it exists as it does. We want to know why Mars appears to have had liquid water on its surface and where it went. We want to know if the world ever supported life. Also, we want to know if we can colonize it. For our species to guarantee its own survival, we have to successfully survive on another planet. Mars is merely a stepping stone in that plan.
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175683]you can be poetic about it from a distance
maybe the occasional tour
more than that and you're just going to ruin it for everyone[/QUOTE]
We're going to ruin Mars for everyone?
Tell me, how often have you 'used' Mars yourself? Have you even seen it through a telescope? No? Then I must ask how Mars is going to be ruined for anyone. Unless you believe in people who live on Pluto or something
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[QUOTE=Cheesedragon;37189731]Can someone tell my why this is so enthralling, I mean yeah, it's another planet, which is great, but there's not much there but rocks and dust![/QUOTE]
Just imagine, thousands of miles away there is a robot on another rock, built by humans on this planet
When you think about it, that's pretty damn cool
Especially knowing it is over there right now
It's also cool because this robot might find some interesting things out about Mars. Maybe it will provide evidence of creatures that once roamed Mars? Okay, optimistic, but you get the point
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175423]no that's the last thing mars needs.
people.[/QUOTE]
because there's so much stuff on Mars that humans will ruin
I heard there's like, craters there!!
[QUOTE=OvB;37189685]Would you have happened to have been born before 1975?
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_9[/url][/QUOTE]
Then let me rephrase, images that can match the quality of Curiosity's.
[QUOTE=DemonDog;37190100]Then let me rephrase, images that can match the quality of Curiosity's.[/QUOTE]
A rover like curiosity would be awesome on Venus. If I remember hearing right, NASA has the ability to turn out more MSL Curiosity "class" rovers if the funding was available for whatever mission they pleased. For less of the cost of the base one we have now. Hell, they have two MSL rovers. One on earth and one on Mars. NASA always likes to have a fully functional replica to test on land. They did the same with the MER (Spirit/Opportunity)
So maybe if NASA ever got more money, they could scrape up a mission and plop on on Venus. But I think right now they're occupied with MSL and the SLS/Orion.
[QUOTE=OvB;37190160]A rover like curiosity would be awesome on Venus. If I remember hearing right, NASA has the ability to turn out more MSL Curiosity "class" rovers if the funding was available for whatever mission they pleased. For less of the cost of the base one we have now. Hell, they have two MSL rovers. One on earth and one on Mars. NASA always likes to have a fully functional replica to test on land. They did the same with the MER (Spirit/Opportunity)
So maybe if NASA ever got more money, they could scrape up a mission and plop on on Venus. But I think right now they're occupied with MSL and the SLS/Orion.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, MSL is going to take up a lot of their time (and resources). Thing is, can a Curiosity-class rover survive on Venus? The environmental difference from Mars to Venus is [B]huge[/B]. One's a dusty (and therefore inhospitable, but still traversable), cold and dry planet with a thin atmosphere, and the other's a boiling hot hellhole with a dense, corrosive atmosphere.
[QUOTE=OvB;37189685]Would you have happened to have been born before 1975?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/BSlSm.png[/img]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_9[/url][/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2010/11/Venera_perspective_Don-Mitchell-process1-400x355.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Nutt007;37191096][IMG]http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2010/11/Venera_perspective_Don-Mitchell-process1-400x355.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
God that is such a cool fuckin' picture.
[t]http://www.bilddump.se/bilder/20120812142153-5.57.241.30.jpg[/t]
Same photo, higher resolution.
[QUOTE=Rapist;37188827]A rover is something that can and explore the terrain of something. A black hole does not have a terrain. Even a probe would be ripped apart instantly. There is no black hole anywhere NEAR us. They're hard to find. Flying to one would take millennia. Mars is incredibly interesting and beautiful.
If you don't know what you're talking about then shut, the hell, up.[/QUOTE]
Well sending a probe into a black hole would be pretty cool though, and the effects exerted on the it as it approaches the black hole and when and how it gets destroyed would tell us a load of information about the nature of black holes. Could also have a secondary probe that could monitor the other probe as it falls in to the black hole.
It's not completely useless, it's just very unlikely we'd be able to reach a black hole any time soon
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;37178049]Not a panorama, but here's a new shot from Curiosity (obviously unfinished false color)
[t]http://i.imgur.com/baZOH.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Wow, now that's what i've been waiting for. simply amazing! For some reason the panorama pictures, whilst cool just don't give the same effect as a nice crisp image just you'd imagine a picture on earth to be taken.
Can't wait forthe videos if they're anywhere near that quality.
I want a live stream of what the rover is seeing now. I don't care if it's a day behind to give NASA time to analyze the footage, I just want to see it driving around in real time, letting me believe for a moment that I'm where I will never be.
[QUOTE=Hellsten;37196488][t]http://www.bilddump.se/bilder/20120812142153-5.57.241.30.jpg[/t]
Same photo, higher resolution.[/QUOTE]
Are those two lighter patches on the dirt on each side from the skycrane's engines? Neat.
i wish they would go closer to that water over there
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is that water? it looks like it
[QUOTE=ultradude25;37197137]Are those two lighter patches on the dirt on each side from the skycrane's engines? Neat.[/QUOTE]
Yeah they are, it's bedrock the loose dirt and gravel exposed after being blown away a bit, I think
[QUOTE=Hellsten;37197452]i wish they would go closer to that water over there
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is that water? it looks like it[/QUOTE]
there hasn't been any liquid water on mars for a long, long, long time
i didnt mean it to be actual water, more like traces of it
[QUOTE=Hellsten;37204411]i didnt mean it to be actual water, more like traces of it[/QUOTE]
Water is water, no matter how little there is of it.
[QUOTE=Hellsten;37204411]i didnt mean it to be actual water, more like traces of it[/QUOTE]
Well the reason they landed it in that area is because it was thought to be an ancient flow plain for water. So it'll make its way over there in due time.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;37204441]Water is water, no matter how little there is of it.[/QUOTE]
lol
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