The Curiosity On Mars Thread.

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.

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

jumpjack

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

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.

namloc1980

jumpjack wrote: »

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

It has a dust cap that can be popped off.

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!

Jawgap

vonbarracuda wrote: »

Can I do this on the iPhone?

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

namloc1980

Curiosity as seen by MRO!

namloc1980

Just stunning!

bogman

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




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

That is just unreal

osnola ibax

bogman wrote: »

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




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

That is just unreal

That's just mind bogglingly, jaw droppingly awesazing

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.

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.

namloc1980

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

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?

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.

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!

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.:)

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 ?

shedweller

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!

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 ?

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:)).

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

Logical_Bear

shamelessly taken from you laugh you lose but what the heck!!



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

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.

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.

namloc1980

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

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.



and then :

2 stroke

Everytime I look at this I see this guy

Rhys Essien

refusetolose

press conference on nasa tv now