Curiosity rover landed on mars
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Dinochrome
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Re: Curiosity rover landed on mars
Yeah! Stayed up last night to watch the streaming video from NASA/JPL. They pulled off one hell of a complicated operation with that untested landing system. Going over to the website now to check the newest pictures.
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Re: Curiosity rover landed on mars
Here's a great pic--the Mars orbiter managed to catch it riding the chute down. Supposedly a split second window of opportunity:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/ ... ters-mars/
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/ ... ters-mars/
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Re: Curiosity rover landed on mars
You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue down here. We're breathing again..
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Re: Curiosity rover landed on mars
Nice... 
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JAG2955
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Re: Curiosity rover landed on mars
The pic of the parachute has got to be one of the most incredible pictures ever taken in the space genre. I just watched a recording of the guys at Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the descent and landing. I have never seen so many happy, crying nerds. But I will admit that I felt a little emotional for it as well. Now if we can just get more people off this damn rock and out there.
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Re: Curiosity rover landed on mars
JPL buddy of mine whose wife was in our wedding was [strike]one of the grown ups in the room full of nerds[/strike] flight director. Pretty excited is an understatement.
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Re: Curiosity rover landed on mars
Yeah. The last time I saw anything like this, Scarlett Johansson agreed to come to Comic-Con dressed as Princess Leia.JAG2955 wrote:I just watched a recording of the guys at Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the descent and landing. I have never seen so many happy, crying nerds.
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Re: Curiosity rover landed on mars
Pictures or it didn't happen!!!workinwifdakids wrote:Yeah. The last time I saw anything like this, Scarlett Johansson agreed to come to Comic-Con dressed as Princess Leia.JAG2955 wrote:I just watched a recording of the guys at Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the descent and landing. I have never seen so many happy, crying nerds.
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Re: Curiosity rover landed on mars
Their next logical step would be to create a mission to recover the rover. No one's tried that yet, have they? After all, it's a two-way run instead of just one way. We know we can still go out. The big deal to me is can we still come back?
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