Behold the Mountains of Mars!

JupiterKid

Here are some stunning new images from the surface of Mars taken by the newly landed Curiosity rover.

The mountains in the distance are actually the rim of a giant crater, Gale and are about 3,500 metres (12,000 feet) high.

Rabies

A lot of smog in the area.
Martian industries must be going full speed.

Red somewhere that the camera sends back 4mb pictures. That seems very small. Was expecting high res images. Too much data to send back?

StupidLikeAFox

I think the gmail limit is 25mb. They could be still using an old esatclear account

krudler

Rabies wrote: »

A lot of smog in the area.
Martian industries must be going full speed.

that bastard Coehagen controls the clean air, once they start the reactor it should clean things right up though.

Son Of A Vidic

Great pics OP and with Curiosity being the mother of all rovers, there is going to be so much more amazing stuff to come.

JupiterKid

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Great pics OP and with Curiosity being the mother of all rovers, there is going to be so much more amazing stuff to come.

Thanks! And watch this space because the best is yet to come.

Curiosity still has to return a full colour panorama of its landing site in full colour including the 5,000 metre Mount Sharp - the main target of its mission.

Those images are just a taste of what's to come.

books4sale

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

there is going to be so much more amazing stuff to come.

Like what?

Can you give a list because right now and for the forseeable future all I see coming our way are rocks and sand.

mikom

books4sale wrote: »

Like what?

Can you give a list because right now and for the forseeable future all I see coming our way are rocks and sand.

*Crosses fingers for three titted hooker*

books4sale

mikom wrote: »

*Crosses fingers for three titted hooker*

Thanks for the laugh man.

Fracture

mikom wrote: »

*Crosses fingers for three titted hooker*

LOL, made me laugh so hard.

danniemcq

books4sale wrote: »

Like what?

Can you give a list because right now and for the forseeable future all I see coming our way are rocks and sand.

Hey you have a lot to thank NASA for and i bet a lot of these products and solutions weren't first thought of in design

1. SATELLITE TELEVISION: Our world would not be the same without the satellites now in orbit around the Earth – all thanks to the space programme. They not only give us satellite broadcast television and radio but also power telecommunications including mobile phones and terrestrial TV networks.

2. SAT NAV: The global positioning system on which our in-car navigation systems are based was developed by the US Department of Defense. They would not exist without the space satellites.

3. GOOGLE EARTH: Mapping was never as accurate as the images we can now get thanks to satellites which from space can even see a dog in your back garden.

4. VIRTUAL REALITY: Nasa-developed research and advanced technology devices allow users to project themselves into a computer-generated environment. When coupled with a stereo-viewing device and appropriate software, it creates a feeling of actually being there.

5. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS: Prosthetic limbs are not new but advancements in space robotics are being adapted to create more lifelike, functioning limbs.

6. DIALYSIS: Modern machines to do the work of the kidneys – for patients waiting for or unable to have transplants – were developed as a result of a Nasa-developed chemical process.

7. MRI AND CAT SCANS: Nasa did not invent magnetic resonance imaging but it has contributed to major advances thanks to research into computer enhancement of pictures sent from the moon. Digital image processing has led to enhanced images of human organs.

8. BREAST CANCER SCREENING: A silicon chip originally developed for Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope makes the testing process less painful, less scarring and less expensive than traditional biopsy methods.

9. ULTRASOUND TO ASSESS SKIN DAMAGE: An advanced instrument uses ultrasound technology to assess the depth of burn damage immediately, improving patient treatment and saving lives in serious burn cases.
10. EAR THERMOMETER: Removing the need to use intrusive, mercury-based thermometers on newborn babies and critically ill patients, the ear thermometer uses infrared astronomy technology to measure the amount of energy emitted by the eardrum. This is how Nasa measures the temperature of stars and planets.

11. ATTENTION GETTER: Techniques used to measure brain activity in Nasa pilots are being used to improve attention spans for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

mpu

12. ROAD SAFETY: The cutting of grooves in concrete to increase traction was developed to reduce space shuttle accidents on runways. It is now applied to roads and has cut US traffic accidents by 85 per cent.

13. IMPROVED RADIAL TYRES: Goodyear developed a fibrous material five times stronger than steel for Nasa to use in parachutes to land the Viking explorers on Mars. They expanded the technology to produce a harder-wearing radial car tyre.

14. LANDMINE REMOVAL: Surplus rocket fuel is used for a flare that can burn a hole in the case of a mine and burn away its explosive content.

15. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS: Nasa software engineers have created thousands of computer programs to find imperfections in aerospace structures and components which has proved invaluable in air safety.

16. WATER FILTERS: Water-cleaning technology has existed since the early Fifties but Nasa came up with ways to filter it in more extreme situations. The activated charcoal with silver ions used in commercial filter systems cleans the water and kills bacteria.

17. FREEZE-DRIED FOOD: Nasa carried out extensive research to reduce the weight of food to be carried on missions. The result was a method for cooking food, freezing it quickly, then slowly heating it in a vacuum chamber to remove the ice crystals. The end product weighs one fifth of the original, while retaining 98 per cent of its nutrition.

18. TEMPER FOAM: Nasa developed a soft, high-energy-absorbent padding to improve crash protection in aircraft. Now “memory foam” is used in mattresses, pillows, military and civilian vehicles, sports safety equipment, amusement park rides, furniture and artificial limbs.

19. SCRATCH-RESISTANT LENSES: A modified version of a process developed by Nasa involves coating the lenses with a film of carbon that helps avoid scratches and decreases friction and reduces water spots.

20. RIBBED SWIMSUITS: The swimsuit worn by Olympic sensation Michael Phelps was developed with Nasa technology. Aerodynamic research came up with material which give 15 per cent faster speeds than any other swimsuit thanks to small, barely visible grooves that reduce friction and drag.

21. AERODYNAMIC GOLF BALLS: Technology is behind the design of golf balls with 500 dimples in a pattern of 60 triangles which allows the ball to maintain its initial speed longer and produce a more stable flight for better accuracy and distance.

22. ATHLETIC SHOES: Moon-boot material has been incorporated into running shoe midsoles to improve shock absorption and provide better stability and motion control.

23. PERSONAL ALARM SYSTEMS: A pen-sized ultrasonic transmitter used by prison guards, teachers, the elderly and disabled to call for help is based on space technology.

24. SPACE PENS: Most pens depend on gravity to make the ink flow to the ballpoint. The space pen was developed for the gravity-free space environment so that the ink cartridge contains pressurised gas to push the ink towards the ballpoint, so you can write upside down.

25. CORDLESS POWER TOOLS: The household and DIY products firm Black & Decker came up with a portable drill capable of extracting core samples from below the lunar surface during the Apollo missions. The same technology has been used on cordless miniature vacuum cleaners.

They keep an up to date blog here
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff/spinsearch?BOOL=AND&ALLFIELDS=&CENTER=&BOOLM=AND&MANUFACT=&STATE=&CATEGORY=&ISSUE=&Spinsort=ISSUED

everything from 76 is there

oh and a new mars pic

all these little pebbles are on mars!

Son Of A Vidic

books4sale wrote: »

Like what?

Can you give a list because right now and for the forseeable future all I see coming our way are rocks and sand.

I certainly could give you a list, but if the stupidity of that post is anything to go by, then I have no doubt it would be a complete waste of time.

Have they found any men there yet? Since that's where we're seemingly from.

Nabber

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

books4sale wrote: »

Like what?

Can you give a list because right now and for the forseeable future all I see coming our way are rocks and sand.

I certainly could give you a list, but if the stupidity of that post is anything to go by, then I have no doubt it would be a complete waste of time.

Because the list is rocks, sand and mountains.

Some people arent as excited as others about landing rovers on Mars. I'm indifferent to the whole thing. The list above about tech that have come from NASA. The reply to that could be the medical advances that where made from digging up fresh graves. These advances sometimes have shady pasts.

mikom

danniemcq wrote: »

Hey you have a lot to thank NASA for and i bet a lot of these products and solutions weren't first thought of in design

24. SPACE PENS: Most pens depend on gravity to make the ink flow to the ballpoint. The space pen was developed for the gravity-free space environment so that the ink cartridge contains pressurised gas to push the ink towards the ballpoint, so you can write upside down.

I think the Russians used pencils.

Myrddin

mikom wrote: »

*Crosses fingers for three titted hooker*

Fracture wrote: »

LOL, made me laugh so hard.

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danniemcq

mikom wrote: »

I think the Russians used pencils.

both Americans and Russians used pencils in the early days.

However if you were writing with a pencil and the point broke it would be floating around and possibly short a circuit. or float into someones eyes.

The space pen actually came about after a guy decided to make them for NASA at a cost of over a million quid and then sold 400 test ones to NASA just to see what they thought

NASA never approached Paul Fisher to develop a pen, nor did Fisher receive any government funding for the pen's development.[2] Fisher invented it independently, and then asked NASA to try it.

Fisher spent over one million dollars in trying to perfect the ball point pen before he made his first successful pressurized pens in 1965. Samples were immediately sent to <NOBR>Dr. Robert</NOBR> Gilruth, Manager of the Houston Space Center, where they were thoroughly tested and approved for use in Space in September 1965. In December 1967 he sold 400 Fisher Space Pens to NASA for $2.95 each.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen

moonlighting

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mongoman

Nabber wrote: »

Because the list is rocks, sand and mountains

You obviously could have saved NASA billions. Since you seem to already know the answers to the Curiosity mission. :rolleyes:

Rabies

mikom wrote: »

*Crosses fingers for three titted hooker*

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books4sale

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

I certainly could give you a list, but if the stupidity of that post is anything to go by, then I have no doubt it would be a complete waste of time.

Quit with the snide little remarks man, you're most certainly not above anyone here as regards intellect.

How the hell can anyone give me a list (including you) when we don't even know what's going to be discovered but you probably missed the point of my post, let's see that list of 'amazing stuff' then?

In this world there are two types of people, those who question and those who blindly follow. I can tell you that the latter are the types who don't work for NASA just like you.

books4sale

danniemcq wrote: »

Hey you have a lot to thank NASA for and i bet a lot of these products and solutions weren't first thought of in design

Hey, i'm not doubting the benefits of the space programme and the use of new technology to our daily lives, I worked for a over 10 years in a technical design field so I understand. I was blown away by the procedure of landing this rover ...very cool!

I'm just disputing these claims that we are going to find 'amazing stuff' on Mars besides rocks, sand, gases and chemical compounds.

Some posters claiming they can already provide us with these details of what will be discovered one week into the expedition ... bloody ridiculous!

Nice shot by the way!

Penn

Little bit of bitching and sniping going on in this thread. Knock it off. Discuss things civilly or not at all.

Noopti

I don't care if the photos are of rocks, sand, dust and whatever - I still love looking at images that are taken on another bloody planet!. Don't see the point in posting in this thread just to put a dampener on that - but I suppose some people get a kick out of it.

Keep the photos of rocks and sand coming!

Myrddin

books4sale wrote: »

I'm just disputing these claims that we are going to find 'amazing stuff' on Mars besides rocks, sand, gases and chemical compounds.

One mans trash is another mans treasure. You may not find rocks, sand, gases & chemical compounds as amazing...but to many, they certainly may prove that.

I'd rather the money go to the likes of this than it being spent on newer ingenious ways of killing people, the US War Machine budget exponentially dwarfs any science budget...but maybe some people find that amazing? :rolleyes:

Delphi91

danniemcq wrote: »

oh and a new mars pic

all these little pebbles are on mars!

That's a fantastic picture......

tayto lover

Delphi91 wrote: »

That's a fantastic picture......

What's causing the shadow? Is it natural sunlight or artificial light?

GAAman

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Delphi91

tayto lover wrote: »

What's causing the shadow? Is it natural sunlight or artificial light?

Natural, I presume.....

CardBordWindow

Sure the weather forecast is great there!

Icyseanfitz

these color pictures are amazing, the place looks just like a massive earth desert, hope i get to see humans on mars in my lifetime

Scioch

Delphi91 wrote: »

That's a fantastic picture......

Its a photo of the surface of another planet........... another planet !!! Its amazing. Its just amazing.

B.A._Baracus

Those images are amazing.


But one thing comes to mind. Its not really red for a planet thats nick named 'The Red Planet' - also, total recall really had it wrong. lol.

Scioch

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Those images are amazing.


But one thing comes to mind. Its not really red for a planet thats nick named 'The Red Planet' - also, total recall really had it wrong. lol.

Think I read somewhere once that the original images of mars were developed wrong or had the wrong colour layering on them or something (because the pics were sent back in black and white and had the colour added based on sciency things) which shows it to be red while it was actually brown. So the whole red planet thing came from that I think.

Open to correction though.

Seedy Arling

Scioch wrote: »

Think I read somewhere once that the original images of mars were developed wrong or had the wrong colour layering on them or something (because the pics were sent back in black and white and had the colour added based on sciency things) which shows it to be red while it was actually brown. So the whole red planet thing came from that I think.

Open to correction though.

If thats the case the brown planet sounds fairly naff!

Blair

all these little pebbles are on mars!

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00003/mcam/0003ML0000125000E1_DXXX.jpg
Im seeing a lot of faces in those pebbbles :eek:

alchemist33

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

these color pictures are amazing, the place looks just like a massive earth desert, hope i get to see humans on mars in my lifetime

That would be amazing. I was born in 1970 and often wished I'd been born before the first moon landing, and old enough to appreciate it.

Andrew76

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

these color pictures are amazing, the place looks just like a massive earth desert, hope i get to see humans on mars in my lifetime

Pretty sure I heard or read that they're thinking of a manned mission in the 2030's, so not that long to wait.

Awesome pictures.

Captain Chaos

Andrew76 wrote: »

Pretty sure I heard or read that they're thinking of a manned mission in the 2030's, so not that long to wait.

Yeah, they are thinking alright but no one has the money. NASA's budget has been slashed year on year. They can't even afford to go to the moon now if they wanted to. They could do a manned mission to Mars in the next 10 years but it would be one way only.

Realistically you are looking at 2050/60 for a manned Mars mission. You can blame a few things on that, the end of the Cold War, shrinking defence budgets, the War on Terror and the Global Recession.

If we got back to the Moon by the 2030s we would be doing well.

TheIrishGrover

http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2#-297.15,38.93,70.9

Icyseanfitz

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Yeah, they are thinking alright but no one has the money. NASA's budget has been slashed year on year. They can't even afford to go to the moon now if they wanted to. They could do a manned mission to Mars in the next 10 years but it would be one way only.

Realistically you are looking at 2050/60 for a manned Mars mission. You can blame a few things on that, the end of the Cold War, shrinking defence budgets, the War on Terror and the Global Recession.

If we got back to the Moon by the 2030s we would be doing well.

whats Chinas space program like? they havnt got any shortage of cash

Delphi91

The clarity of the photos coming back is incredible!

http://news.discovery.com/space/photos-mars-rover-curiosity-week-one-120811.html#mkcpgn=twdsc2

Dionysius2

Awesome stuff !

LK_Dave

While I agree that the quality of the pictures returned are fantastic – especially TheIrishGrover 360 degree image link. Is anybody curious what Mars sounds like? Are NASA releasing any AV from Mars?

Blowfish

Scioch wrote: »

Think I read somewhere once that the original images of mars were developed wrong or had the wrong colour layering on them or something (because the pics were sent back in black and white and had the colour added based on sciency things) which shows it to be red while it was actually brown. So the whole red planet thing came from that I think.

Open to correction though.

It's much simpler than that really, the 'red planet' thing came about because Mars is red to the naked eye due to the dust in its atmosphere.

Rabies wrote: »

Red somewhere that the camera sends back 4mb pictures. That seems very small. Was expecting high res images. Too much data to send back?

Actually, the data between Curiosity and the Orbiter is up to 2mb/s mark and it sends back about 100-250mb a (Martian) day.

It's actually pretty depressing that NASA can create a better data connection between 2 objects 100,000,000 km away than you can get in a lot of rural Ireland.

LK_Dave wrote: »

While I agree that the quality of the pictures returned are fantastic – especially TheIrishGrover 360 degree image link. Is anybody curious what Mars sounds like? Are NASA releasing any AV from Mars?

Since the atmosphere is fairly thin, I'd imagine it's fairly quiet out there.

RoyalMarine

Blowfish wrote: »

Since the atmosphere is fairly thin, I'd imagine it's fairly quiet out there.

would still be amazing to find out. hopefully NASA will release something

Scioch

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2#-297.15,38.93,70.9

Is that mars or new mexico ?

Turtwig

LK_Dave wrote: »

While I agree that the quality of the pictures returned are fantastic – especially TheIrishGrover 360 degree image link. Is anybody curious what Mars sounds like? Are NASA releasing any AV from Mars?

There's going to be a full hi-res video (no sound afaik.) of the actual entry and descent. Everyone is looking forward to that, the thing is it's quite a big file for a tiny processor and like any parent they want to know how their child is doing health wise before they see the amazing pictures of where they've been. Communication time and speed is limited, so other things take priority and we just gotta wait.

Here's the thumbnail version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKW1KG8ies

Franticfrank

Really great stuff. Space exploration has been so boring recently, now I'm enjoying this. If anybody's on Twitter, follow Curiosity, NASA have an unusually funny, non-boring feed.

LK_Dave

LK_Dave wrote: »

While I agree that the quality of the pictures returned are fantastic – especially TheIrishGrover 360 degree image link. Is anybody curious what Mars sounds like? Are NASA releasing any AV from Mars?

Looks like you got your wish
Curiosity Audio

face1990

Deleted User wrote: »

Looks like you got your wish
Curiosity Audio

I'm so disappointed! And on top of that I'm not even sure what the joke is!