pretty cool just finding Neil Armstrong's camera from the moon-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/s...loset/?hpid=z6
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pretty cool just finding Neil Armstrong's camera from the moon-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/s...loset/?hpid=z6
I like these rocks...from our camera on the arm about 5cm above the outcrop at night (with LEDs on):
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima...51R00_DXXX.jpg
it still blows my mind these pics are coming from another planet
no shit. Like what's the shutter delay after you hit the button? Or is it programmed out days/weeks/months ahead?
Me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ksyrium
A day or few in advance. For example, stuff running now (Friday am) was planned on Wednesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tye 1on
+100. I've been watching this great series on BBC called "Andrew Marr's History of the World" and it is simply amazing how far we've come as a species from only a few tens of thousands of years ago. Our scientific achievements, especially space exploration, give me hope for humanity, despite our propensity to act like the primitive apes that we descended from and still are in so many ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ksyrium
Check out two Mastcam mosaics that we’ve released, with pan/zoom capability on the web. I'm excited everything in this area is getting named after Western Montana features.
http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/deepzoom/PIA19397/
http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/deepzoom/PIA19398/
That's pretty cool. This thread rocks.
Nice!Quote:
Originally Posted by 406
Few questions if you dont mind?
You can see dunes quite a bit, what kind of windspeeds do mars get? You have a bit less gravity but is the sand much more fine grained or do stuff get moved around a lot even if the atmoshpere is really thin? Are those dunes caused by the dust storms or by some "prevailing" winds, like you have some regular wind patterns there?
Funny, I was trying to find some info on wind speeds near the rover this morning for another reason. There is a wind sensor on the rover, but didn't have much luck finding data. It is operated by Spain and had some damage, so not sure if they get wind info. The rover seems to keep getting dustier, so I would think if the wind was blowing it would get cleaned off at times. Although the dust could be sticking to the rover. I'm planning to look into it more when I get some free time.
I don't know much about dunes. Don't think we have seen any move(other than slump) from the rover, but some people claim the big ones at the base of mt sharp are moving based on orbiter data.
This photo, rocks.
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Originally Posted by 406
The start of the drill hole named Big Sky from this last weekend:
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New lift tower?
Where there's water, there's snow!
did your cameras help in discovering the water/liquid thing a few days ago?
Not the one a few days ago...but something similar back in 2006 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tye 1on
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/...ter/index.html
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/...001184_fig.gif
Hey 406, stop wasting time drilling holes and drive over to the water. Do you have a snorkel on that thing?
Selfie at Big Sky drill site:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/imgs/20...a19920-br2.jpg
that damage to the middle wheel new? What's the life span on this sucker? It still under warranty? ;)
No big deal, almost time to switch over to snows, anyhow.
Nice selfie. How was the picture taken?
Lots of pictures with our camera on the arm from many arm positions, then mosaiced together, more details:Quote:
Originally Posted by mock1
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...science-space/
It has been damaged for awhile...we haven't been driving as much the last few months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tye 1on
Some more wheel info, detailed look at left middle wheel( a sol is a day on Mars since landing):
http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/as..._survey_lm.jpg
MSL performed a complete five-position survey of all wheels on sol 1046 with the MAHLI camera on the end of the arm. The damage to the wheels has changed only slightly since sol 708.
NASA / JPL / MSSS / Emily Lakdawalla
Wondering how the wheel issues are working out on Mars...:eek:
Back in March we noticed the first break in a tread "grouser", nothing of note since, still trundling along.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tye 1on
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/bre...r-wheel-treads
Checking this thread on regular basis!
406, care to share what has been the most...ummm...interesting (?) things that you have experienced in the last year that you can and care to share?
I can only imagine what kind of NDA you are tied into with but, you know, stuff that you can share to the public?
How interesting/mundane has it been, any alien artifacts, are you up to some kind of more elaborate VR experience in the near future and whatnot?
Such an interesting position you are holding there, basically a goddam rocket scientist.
also interested. Watch a NOVA special from 2015 last night about Hubble. Thought about Mars rover Photograph
Funny how we let things of great importance slip our minds
Nothing as strict as a NDA, NASA lives on publicity, so they press releases anything interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meathelmet
We drove onto a ridge at the base of Mt. Sharp and have been making way across. Not the most scenic on a large scale area, 360 mosaic taken with cameras on the mast a few weeks ago:
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But the outcrops are cool, I took this with the camera on the arm last night:
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What did you do last night?
406: oh I took some closeup pix... on Mars...
This delivers.
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Thanks Summit, yea that rock could be on a beach somewhere. But! it's on Frikin MARS!!
Cracking up here as well...all this on TGR... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Summit
So much win!
Tinkered with some Mars VR at Steam Workshop few days ago. Even as it was quite simple as some sole individual had put that together, it was quite nice. I can only imagine what one could achieve with the imagery that NASA has... The data and the resolution has to be quite something.
Hopefully you put up some kind of RoverVR experience in the near future? Or is all that data available to third parties atm so they could start to build up some experiences?
Cool article in the WashPost here. Interesting how the place names are picked. Pahrump Hills and Telegraph Peak are straight out of Death Valley NP nomenclature...
New subscriber, just finished pages 1-7.
Wow, 406. You rock.
406 you guys busy building a Tesla charging station up there?
Bump.
Just because I saw some geezer looking just like 406 in some documentary, astrophysicist and all.
Bring some behind-the-scenes stuff to display, if you can!
I recently thought of this thread as well. Yeah, let's see some more!
Not much going on the last few weeks, the main computer on the rover had some issues and JPL switched over to the back up. Hopefully taking new pictures soon on the back up. Selfie from June was cool, you can see the dust storm on the horizon:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/msl/...A22486b-16.jpg
Got dusty for awhile and some not very good pictures during that time, but is now back to normal atmosphere conditions.
This thread crossed my mind as well recently as I heard that the dust storm had died down and they were trying to re-establish contact and then had some computer issues. Looks like it's still working, so everyone needs to keep at it.
How's the camera on this new model?