Updates Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity)

[Keatah]

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[Mattyv]

Curiosity's Descent - YouTube
Sweet! NASA is really outdoing themselves this time.

 

[Andy44]

Curiosity's Descent - YouTube
Sweet! NASA is really outdoing themselves this time.

Wow, that was kind of cool, even if the last few seconds were hard to decipher. The heat shield sure dropped away real fast!

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Curiosity's Descent - YouTube
Sweet! NASA is really outdoing themselves this time.

Are you kidding me? This is just too awesome.

They have updated the HiRISE image page - apparently they also captured the detached heatshield in free-fall.

 

[Turbo]

Simply Amazing! That is one awsome youtube vid!

 

[Unstung]

Here's another angle with the heat shield:

Source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/06/curiosity-update-heat-shield-spotted

 

[palebluevoice]

How loud would the skycrane be from about 10-15 feet away?

 

[Eli13]

How loud would the skycrane be from about 10-15 feet away?

Depends. On Earth or on Mars?

(I can't answer your question, but that *does* make a difference. )

 

[Keatah]

Louder than RCS, quieter than OMS. Depending on where you are and how far away you are.

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Are they gonna shoot the Skycrane's Hydrazine tanks with the laser? Are they? Are they?
(imagine antsy pesky little boy jumping up and down)

 

[mojoey]

This guy looks like this guy...

Also this.

Aannd now presenting: Condescending Voyager!

 

[flying coffin]

Best recap of the landing I've seen

 

[N_Molson]

And the first color image from Mars (well, from MSL on Mars) :

Weather seems to be a bit dusty today in Hale Crater.

 

[Unstung]

And the first color image from Mars (well, from MSL on Mars) :

Weather seems to be a bit dusty today in Hale Crater.

The dust cover is still on.

Where Curiosity landed:

 

[Scattykat]

 

[mojoey]

SHould have put a 'How's my driving' bumper sticker.

 

[C3PO]

And the first color image from Mars (well, from MSL on Mars) :

NASA wasn't kidding when they said they were aiming for a flat area.

 

[Screamer7]

I wonder how dusty the top of MSL are after all that dust been kicking up.
Is there a camera that can take a image of the top of MSL?

 

[Mattyv]

Once it deploys its mast, probably yes.

 

[Screamer7]

During the live NASA feed I could not help smiling at Adam Steltzner, despite all that tension.
He paraded up and down the aisle like a father waiting for his first born child.

 

[fort]

During the live NASA feed I could not help smiling at Adam Steltzner, despite all that tension.

It indirectly put back me in memory, a group that I listened in the years 1980: the Stray Cats. If nevertheless, me that does not there know big thing, I find him more resemblance with Johnny Cash.

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Cost of the Curiosity program and of different American spatial programs, European and Russians ( million Euros / years of exploitation ) Source: Le Monde NASA / ESA.

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