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The Curiosity On Mars Thread.

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  • #272
    jkforde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭jkforde


    Doom wrote: »
    That must be the 3mile high mountain at the centre of the creator or maybe the edge of it.

    From Guardian website;
    Over the next 98 weeks – or one Martian year – the six-wheeled vehicle will trundle around the ancient Gale crater and scale its central mound, the three mile-high Mount Sharp

    one of the JPL people suggested that those might be the rim of the crater but he wasn't sure until they got exact rover coordinates and orientation.

    🌦️ 6.7kwp, 45°, SSW, mid-Galway 🌦️

    "Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope." Irving Layton



  • #273
    slade_x
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,428 Mod ✭✭✭✭slade_x


    cereberus wrote: »
    Although I think it was meant to get as far away as possible from landing site after deployment, maybe curiosity's camera's will be able to see it.
    Could probably take a spin over there if it wanted anyway.:)

    It will never go near the skycrane as the possibility of hydrazine contamination to the instruments would destroy the mission


  • #274
    jumpjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭jumpjack


    is that true that they can clean hazcam lens from remote?!?


  • #275
    Plug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Phewwww only heard about it now(making a safe tough down that is!). Glad they made it safe, hopefully they confirm some exciting stuff within the next few months. Well done to NASA for landing the thing too.


  • #276
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,527 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    jumpjack wrote: »
    is that true that they can clean hazcam lens from remote?!?

    It has a dust cap that can be popped off.


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  • #277
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Doom wrote: »
    That must be the 3mile high mountain at the centre of the creator or maybe the edge of it.

    From Guardian website;
    Over the next 98 weeks – or one Martian year – the six-wheeled vehicle will trundle around the ancient Gale crater and scale its central mound, the three mile-high Mount Sharp

    At the press conference one of the engineers mentioned that the components were tested to three times life, and not to failure - so while they are saying it's a two year mission, he was willing to go on the record and say they could easily get 4 years out of the machine! In truth, this thing could still be trundling around 6 years or even 10 years from now - perhaps with much reduced capabilities, but still functioning.

    They also mentioned there's no reliance on consumables such as gases to run instruments.

    Opportunity is still trundling about 8 years after it landed - not bad for something that was to last 3 months and cover about 1.5km!


  • #278
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    vonbarracuda wrote: »
    Can I do this on the iPhone?

    I don't know - I'm more of android person!


  • #279
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,527 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    curiosity-hirise.png

    Curiosity as seen by MRO!


  • #280
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,527 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=27269

    Just stunning!


  • #281
    bogman
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    Highlighted here
    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/mro-curiosity-descent/


    MRO-hires.jpg

    “This image was taken six minutes after MSL entered the atmosphere,”

    That is just unreal


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  • #282
    osnola ibax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭osnola ibax


    bogman wrote: »
    Highlighted here
    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/mro-curiosity-descent/


    MRO-hires.jpg

    “This image was taken six minutes after MSL entered the atmosphere,”

    That is just unreal

    That's just mind bogglingly, jaw droppingly awesazing


  • #283
    DarkDusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭DarkDusk


    On holidays at the moment and have alack of internet, so I didn't get to post earlier... Anyways, HURRAY! Well done to NASA, what a milestone in engineerig and science.


  • #284
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Days like this and pics from the MRO make me very proud to be part of our amazing species. It's but a blink of an eye since we were shaping handaxes from flint and just look at us now.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #285
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,527 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    FLA_397506083EDR_F0010008AUT_04096M_.JPG

    Shadows on Mars. The mountain looms large in the background.


  • #286
    CSU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭CSU


    Why are the pics black & white...wudda thought in this day and age someone wudda strapped a smartphone or something on the front LoL>

    seriously though...why only B&W pics?


  • #287
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,527 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    CSU wrote: »
    Why are the pics black & white...wudda thought in this day and age someone wudda strapped a smartphone or something on the front LoL>

    seriously though...why only B&W pics?

    The current pics are from the hazcams which have fish eye lenses and are mainly used for navigation and only need to be black and white. The main cameras are on a mast but it won't be deployed for a few days. They are full colour. Patience is the name of the game.


  • #288
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    CSU wrote: »
    Why are the pics black & white...wudda thought in this day and age someone wudda strapped a smartphone or something on the front LoL>

    seriously though...why only B&W pics?

    They're just haz-cam photos - the main mast camera deploys later in the week.

    Should have stuck a GoPro on it!


  • #289
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    CSU wrote: »
    Why are the pics black & white...wudda thought in this day and age someone wudda strapped a smartphone or something on the front LoL>

    seriously though...why only B&W pics?

    In the preliminary stages of the missions, photos while awesome, don't need too much detail. Time available for data transfers is extremely limited and from Nasa's point of view the data they want isn't pictures; it's the health reports of the rover and her lovely instruments. Beautiful pictures will come in time.:)


  • #290
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,705 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    Any more releases/press conferences due on Nasa TV ? I fancied gobbling up a bit of gobbledigook data before bedtime :) , but all I'm getting are teenage science snippets, am I not clicking somewhere I should be ? :confused:


  • #291
    shedweller
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    Not a whole lot going on from what i can see. I dont know when they are planning to raise the mastcam and head for the hills either!


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  • #292
    Skyknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭Skyknight


    Mountainsandh wrote: »
    Any more releases/press conferences due on Nasa TV ? I fancied gobbling up a bit of gobbledigook data before bedtime :) , but all I'm getting are teenage science snippets, am I not clicking somewhere I should be ? :confused:

    I have a feeling there is one due at 1600 PDT(in about one and a half hours time), then again at 1000PDT(1800) tomorrow. Other than that there are some which recorded earlier here http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl/videos although I am not sure how many of them you have seen (or how many times you have seen them:)).


  • #293
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,707 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I'm ravenous for more surface images from Curiosity.:)

    From a couple of the hazcam images drip fed to us today I'd say the full colour panoramic shots will be incredible - the first shots of the Martian surface from the initial the landing spot to show a really mountainous, rugged terrain. I can't wait!:D


  • #294
    Logical_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Logical_Bear


    shamelessly taken from you laugh you lose but what the heck!!
    zKdJN.jpg


    Joking aside when will the colour pictures start coming in??


  • #295
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,527 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Press conference at 12 midnight. According to twitter they will have colour decent images from the MARDI (Mars Decent Imager) camera. Should be spectacular.


  • #296
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,527 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    shedweller wrote: »
    Not a whole lot going on from what i can see. I dont know when they are planning to raise the mastcam and head for the hills either!

    Mastcam won't be raised for a few days. It will be months before they reach the hills.


  • #297
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,527 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Check out the google graphic on google Look in the sky!


  • #298
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Check out the google graphic on google Look in the sky!

    Just saw that on facebook, it's depressing because I was checking the google doodle all day hoping for something Curiosity related and they had it there right under my nose the whole time.:o Well played Google. Well Played.


    Hmm... then again.

    london_2012_javelin_google_doodle.jpg

    and then :

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  • #299
    2 stroke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Everytime I look at this673474main_msl-3_full.jpg I see this guy

    splodge.gif


  • #300
    Rhys Essien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    501ff16042143.png


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  • #301
    refusetolose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭refusetolose


    press conference on nasa tv now


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