Updates Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity)

[Unstung]

Did anybody notice that Juno launched exactly a year before Curiosity landed (depending on your time zone)?

 

[Artlav]

And that's how you do that.
Never doubted it would work, unlike our bucket-o-bolts attempt...

Congratulations to everyone who made it happen!

 

[Keatah]

25 min to ody relay, more pics!

 

[Loru]

And that's how you do that.
Never doubted it would work, unlike our bucket-o-bolts attempt...

Are you refering to Soviet attempts to land on Mars? Well... surelly you've had back luck with Mars probes but you've excelled in Venus exploration

 

[Linguofreak]

I could have sworn that when they were interviewing John Holdren he claimed that the US was the only country to successfully land surface probes on another planet. (Venera anyone?)

 

[Codz]

I could have sworn that when they were interviewing John Holdren he claimed that the US was the only country to successfully land surface probes on another planet. (Venera anyone?)

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Urwumpe]

I could have sworn that when they were interviewing John Holdren he claimed that the US was the only country to successfully land surface probes on another planet. (Venera anyone?)

Maybe he considered Venus landings as diving expedition. :lol:

 

[Unstung]

I could have sworn that when they were interviewing John Holdren he claimed that the US was the only country to successfully land surface probes on another planet. (Venera anyone?)

And Mars 3... for 15 seconds. Does Huygens count?

 

[HR_Oso]

Exactly what I was thinking.

¿Huygens?....

 

[Urwumpe]

And Mars 3... for 15 seconds. Does Huygens count?

Huygens was partially US, so it does also count as US probe.

 

[Codz]

Huygens was partially US, so it does also count as US probe.

And it was launched and ferried by a US rocket and probe. I'd still partially count it though.

 

[Urwumpe]

And it was launched and ferried by a US rocket and probe. I'd still partially count it though.

Rosetta has the chance in two years to become the first probe to land on a comet, without US contributions... but no planet.

 

[Linguofreak]

Maybe he considered Venus landings as diving expedition. :lol:

Or maybe he considered the probes all melting in ~2 hours or less to be an indicator of non-success.

After all with US engineering they could survive indefinitely.

 

[ADSWNJ]

Looking at the high-res grey strip on the Google Mars imagery, you can identify a couple of distinct craters, and then a surface feature that aligns with the NASA landing ellipses. I've ringed these in red. Using this, I have estimated the landing location (white).

Looks like a bullseye to me.

 

[MattBaker]

Mars Odyssey is on the sky, while Curiosity experiences her first martian sunset.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Mega-cool! :thumbup: God Bless America!

 

[Unstung]

More images were received from Curiosity as Mars Odyssey passed overhead. The high-gain antenna should be raised tomorrow so Curiosity will have a direct, high-speed link to Earth.

 

[Urwumpe]

 

[Notebook]

ESA gets a credit too:

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMAKBVXF5H_index_0.html

by ESA...

N.

 

[Keatah]

Cool that unmannedspaceflight.com got a couple of plugs on nasa tv!