This just came across on Earthsky. It shows the location of all of NASA's probes and the target location for Curiosity.
http://youtu.be/HQd7XFuoWZw
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This just came across on Earthsky. It shows the location of all of NASA's probes and the target location for Curiosity.
http://youtu.be/HQd7XFuoWZw
Fingers crossed...
MSL skycrane inspired by "something sexy"
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/03/157597...-a-mars-lander
Now THAT'S a job with satisfaction.
Ironically enough, a few people I know at JPL think he's a douchebag. But douche or not, he got 9 minutes on NPR talking about sex drugs and rock and roll, and is possibly going to get credit (fingers crossed for tonight!) for one of the more awesome technological things done in the last 20 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hohes
Excited for tonight -- planning to catch it on NASA TV. Great piece on Cracked about this: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reason...ut-mars-today/
Schralpy - I never thought I'd read you saying a bad word about anyone. He must be evil! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
I'll be watching!
link to the action?
Thankyou for sharing!
MONSTER VIBES BEING SENT FOR MISSION SUCCESS!!
^^^THANKS!
dont know where the link went but I was about to post a link anyways so here ya go
http://new.livestream.com/GriffithOb...riosityLanding
Edit: ah, link is in the other mars thread.
I hope the Rube Goldberg landing device doesn't drop 406's camera platform.
Images! FKNA!!!!:D
I can't believe this worked. This is the most amazing interplanetary mission since Cassini–Huygens or maybe Voyager!
Hats off to 406 and his MSSS crew, JPL, and NASA!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Today, August 05, 2012, 9 minutes ago
NASA's Curiosity rover has landed on Mars! Its descent-stage retrorockets fired, guiding it to the surface. Nylon cords lowered the rover to the ground in the "sky crane" maneuver. When the spacecraft sensed touchdown, the connecting cords were severed, and the descent stage flew out of the way. The time of day at the landing site is mid-afternoon -- about 3 p.m. local Mars time at Gale Crater. The time at JPL's mission control is about 10:31 p.m. Aug. 5 PDT (early morning EDT).
406's cameras work :)
Congrats to you 406 and your whole crew (and JPL/NASA)
Most insane thing I've ever seen....fantastic day to be a human!
So stoked for nasa, hopefully they can get some more clams out of congress.
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congrats 406!
Science for the motherfucking win! Just thinking about what we did is mindblowing -- traveled 352 million miles to another planet, hovered over the surface with rockets, used a skycrane to land a mobile science laboratory the size of a car.
Ditto!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Summit
That is the best summary ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
Congratulations 406! This is unbelievable. I am speechless. Don't know if I will be able to sleep tonight...wow! FKNA!!!!!!!!!!!
Great show from Pasadena.
Neil de Grasse Tyson must be stoked out of his mind that so many people watched this ... it shows that science CAN still captivate the minds of American citizens.
cool thread. i missed this first time around. congrats 406!
Couldn't stay up to watch it. Super bummed I missed out but huge congrats to you 406 anthem whole team! So incredibly cool.
Way to go 406. Thanks to you and your team for some positive and inspiring news for a change. I am looking forward to watching this unfold.
So excited for you and the team 406!! Truly amazing.
Awesome! Major Mars to ground control.
Now someone needs to make a Mars bike using those super fat wheels.
Wonder what those wheels are made of? Bet each one costs like 1000 Mojo SL's.
They were doing replays last night, maybe some more todayQuote:
Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
So 406's camera's images won't come in until the system commissioning checks are done and the mast is deployed, but here is a sweet image of the landing captured by MRO last night:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6...-full_full.jpg
wha?? Thought there was a thumbnail from Curiosity like 5 minutes post-landing?Quote:
Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
Those images are from the "Hazard Avoidance cameras."
More images and info here
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ms...dexEvents.html
Quote:
As planned, the rover's early engineering images are lower resolution. Larger color images are expected later in the week when the rover's mast, carrying high-resolution cameras, is deployed.
right on, for some reason when I re-read 406's first post it gave me the impression he was involved with all of Curiosity's cameras...Quote:
Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
^^^nope just the color ones.
I got many low res versions of frames from the EDL movie in today. So stoked it worked, first one that came in has an awesome view of the heat shield falling away. I think there is a press conference at 4 pm pacific with the boss, should be on NASA tv. Really cool images and can't wait for the full resolution and the full movie in HD.
I'm off to try and sleep until shift start again tonight at 11 pm.
^ that's freaking awesome. I was worried about that part of it disrupting the dynamics of the craft as it got lower into atmosphere.
Having failed out of a graduate-level automatic control systems class, I have mad respect for how the entire thing went down. You guys have no idea how crazy it is to model all of the possible system disturbances, sensor inputs, and control algorithms into a jumbled mess of codeable transfer functions. Automatic controls is probably the first class I ever took where I didn't think I was capable of learning the material, and I passed relativistic quantum mechanics in my undergrad ...
that is super coolQuote:
Originally Posted by 406