The Curiosity On Mars Thread.

jkforde

ThatDrGuy wrote: »

Any idea what kind of feed we will get from nasa tv ? Any of the mars orbiters imaging the landing ?

MRO will pass over just at time of descent and then again one orbit later when MSL is on the ground and will feed the saved imagery back at its next link to earth ....afaik! try the http://eyes.nasa.gov/ model of the descent, it shows where the orbiters will be during descent

vonbarracuda

Morning everyone. Very excited now fingers crossed

Skyknight

Just passed the 10,000(16093.44KM) mile mark. my guess is everything would begin to looking real big right now.

MacConmheadha

What time is it set to land at?

AlmightyCushion

MacConmheadha wrote: »

What time is it set to land at?

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/

They just said there it's 10:24 Pacific time which is 6:24 here. I thought it was 5:24 earlier. *sigh*

shedweller

vonbarracuda wrote: »

Morning everyone. Very excited now fingers crossed

Top o the mornin to yourself too! 9949km left!

Edit: make that 8234km!!

MacConmheadha

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/

They just said there it's 10:24 Pacific time which is 6:24 here. I thought it was 5:24 earlier. *sigh*

Sound, have been watching that stream, just didn't catch it when they said it'll land.

The one I'm watching is a bit ahead of the one you posted:
http://news.discovery.com/space/live-mars-rover-curiosity-landing-120802.html#mkcpgn-fbnws1

jkforde

10 mins to cruise stage sep!! (biting fingers) :eek::D

Morning .

Turtwig

Damn wireless, picks a fantastic time to start acting up. :mad:

thecommander

Morning all. That Eye on the Solar System site is amazing. Great to see what it looks like (virtually)

Darius.Tr

Good morning people, not usually a fanatic of this kind of stuff but this seems really interesting. Where do you find all the information on how much left to travel for the mars rover?
Sorry if it was allready mentioned, I can't seem to find it as I just woke up

shedweller

Jernal wrote: »

Damn wireless, picks a fantastic time to start acting up. :mad:

Ah sure i had firefox tell me i needed an update and my phone needed a reboot!

lmao

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/mars/curiosity_news3.html

Hope this helps.

murrayp4

Morning all

Darius.Tr

Darius.Tr wrote: »

Good morning people, not usually a fanatic of this kind of stuff but this seems really interesting. Where do you find all the information on how much left to travel for the mars rover?
Sorry if it was allready mentioned, I can't seem to find it as I just woke up

timeline here

http://www.spaceflight101.com/msl-edl-timeline.html

shedweller

Attitude control system turned off as it is not needed anymore. Separation to follow

Turtwig

5 minutes to separation, where the heck is Beeker?

jkforde

ENTRY INTERFACE 05:10:46 UTC

:D:D:D:D:D:D

murrayp4

3 mins to separation!

shedweller

Jernal wrote: »

5 minutes to separation, where the heck is Beeker?

He's probably there and didn't tell us!!

Skyknight

Darius.Tr wrote: »

Good morning people, not usually a fanatic of this kind of stuff but this seems really interesting. Where do you find all the information on how much left to travel for the mars rover?
Sorry if it was allready mentioned, I can't seem to find it as I just woke up

Also

http://eyes.nasa.gov/exit.html
http://www.ustream.tv/NASAJPL

shedweller

Cruise stage sep

lmao

DE-SPIN - The Spacecraft is now de-spinning from 2rpm to Zero in Preparation for Entry.

thecommander

ON the NASA tv feed are we watching it with the delay taken into account, or are they cheering what they think should have happened?

namloc1980

Cheering what should have happened. Curiosity is already hopefully sitting on Mars in one piece for the last 2 minutes.

Turtwig

They were cheering the de-spin and that the vehicle was still responding I think.

Trine

Skyknight wrote: »

Also

http://eyes.nasa.gov/exit.html
http://www.ustream.tv/NASAJPL

Thanks for ustream link, seems better quality and more up to date by about 30 seconds than the Nasa TV feed (at least for me it is).

murrayp4

I'm eating pizza and drinking beer while watching this. Classy.

Turtwig

Squeaky bum time.