Curiosity rover Landing Live Steam tonight
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/earth-mars-rover-curiosity-landed-205422579.html
For those interested.
So, I've been lauching missions through the Kerbal Space Program, has got me excited about everything space.
Seems like a good night to grab some drinks and wish Nasa some luck for the newest rover that's going to be hanging out on Mars.
For those interested.
So, I've been lauching missions through the Kerbal Space Program, has got me excited about everything space.
Seems like a good night to grab some drinks and wish Nasa some luck for the newest rover that's going to be hanging out on Mars.
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realtime java simulation of some sort.
http://eyes.nasa.gov/
nasa live stream
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
I really hope this thing is successful
Hope they at least land It safely.
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl
I hope it lands...sounds like Nasa's Mars program could be in jeopardy if the landing is unsuccessful.
I can't wait until they bring out the big cameras!
Technology is kind of awesome, isn't it.
Was pretty exciting watching the whole thing go down with perfect execution.
Absolutely! Super congrats to the peeps at Nasa. Science!!:poly136:
So amp`d up I doubt I'll be able to sleep much
what was wrong with with the good ole inflatable air bag thing?
been playin a ton of KSP also. poor Kerbals, so many have made a one-way trip to the great beyond
New landing was because of how large the Curiosity is compared to the past rovers.. It weighs nearly a ton.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/24520129
I think that video i just linked, at the start, it shows a recreation of how the landing worked, using a sky crane, which is bad ass! and it shows the reaction of inside the control room.
It would be really cool if they had enough money to send along secondary crafts that film and document the whole process.
It's one thing to do it and be successful, but some of what justifies NASA's miniscule funding are the shots that they take of themselves actually pulling off some of this amazing stuff. They just seem to capture the imagination and speak volumes and really cement their legacy in the view of the public.
The also released this shot of the heat shield falling away.
I can't wait for the full resolution shot to come in, I wish it was video like they did with the old Saturn Rockets at the the different stages but I totally understand that they can't... yet.
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Personally I think this is what America should be spending its money on but NASA takes up .5% of the national budget. If America is going to flex its muscle this should be it, not the cancerous pentagon shaped tumor.
mark you mean like this?
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But what I really want, is a companion craft that films the whole thing, so we get a 3rd or 4th person view not just a 1st person. I want to see the entry from the outside, I want to see the parachute deploy, I want to see the the sky crane in action.
But most of all I'm just excited that this delivery method worked and paves the way for bigger more delicate payloads to be delivered with a lot more success. More than half of the missions fail because everyone kept trying the 'cushion the impact' approach. It limited what you could deploy and had a high failure rate.
I'm also impressed with what NASA can do on a shoe string budget. 2.5 billion seems like a lot but the pentagon spent 100x times that just on AC in Iraq, the pentagon watched as 6.6 billion just disappeared mysteriously. NASAs budget is what the pentagon finds in its couch cushions. If we diverted even a fraction of those funds think of the amazing things we could do.
/rant =P
What I'm looking forward to are the amazing shots Curiosity will take while it's on the mountain. It's going to have one hell of a view.
http://io9.com/5932477/methane+exhaling-microbes-found-in-undersea-volcanoes-reset-the-limits-of-life
also... this
I'd like to see them implement something to stream extremely hi-res images quickly. Right now, it's a 14 minute communication delay. It still takes a while to get those images.
http://gizmodo.com/5932521/why-do-the-mars-rovers-images-look-so-bad
I didn't stay awake for the landing, but my daughter was at NASA Space School in Houston and saw it live with staff at the Johnson Space Center.
Jealous, me?
Yes, that's 'just' what she did. But what an atmosphere.
NBC needs the 6 hours for editing.
Nasa only needs 14 minutes to edit out the martians.
http://panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html
:DDDD awesome
correct, the new rover doesnt have solar panels, nuclear battery this time
Press Release Fact Sheet in case anyone didn't see it.
MSL Fact Sheet