The Curiosity On Mars Thread.

murrayp4

Venus:

MarsCuriosity It once was one small step... now it's six big wheels.

jkforde

that was unreal and this is unreal http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/

i already have the shadow image on my phone via twitter. what?! :eek::D:D:D

ThatDrGuy

Also surface of Venus

muskyj

in one of the steps (think 16 or 17) they said they had to wait for images to confirm landing site of the descent stage. i take it said images will be coming from one of the orbiters??

zenno

Why are people talking about venus ? this is a mars thread.

Cú Giobach

muskyj wrote: »

in one of the steps (think 16 or 17) they said they had to wait for images to confirm landing site of the descent stage. i take it said images will be coming from one of the orbiters??

Odyssey's next orbit should be interesting indeed.

vonbarracuda

Great images back already. What a morning

Jawgap

Wonder what he would've made of today.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQPoVjW7Gc

muskyj

Cú Giobach wrote: »

Odyssey's next orbit should be interesting indeed.

yeah can't wait. must get input!

Turtwig

zenno wrote: »

Why are people talking about venus ? this is a mars thread.

Well the money used to bail out the banks could have been used to fund our own project to get a rover or probe or something on Venus? At least, that's what I'm half dreaming of.

cereberus

Considering the altitude the skycrane bit deployed, it cant be that far away. 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.:)

Cú Giobach

cereberus wrote: »

Considering the altitude the skycrane bit deployed, it cant be that far away. 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.:)

All I kept thinking was, what if the bloody thing dropped onto the lander. Ouch.

muskyj

news briefing about to start

cereberus

Cú Giobach wrote: »

All I kept thinking was, what if the bloody thing dropped onto the lander. Ouch.

Yeah, that would have been a right pain. Think they allowed for that to a huge extent though. Descent stage's job was basically to leggit as far as away as it could after deployment. Interesting times ahead. This stuff restores a bit my faith in humanity.

Jawgap

The press conference is only short of chanting U-S-A!

But in fairness it's deserved and in terms of science leadership probably true.

cereberus

Bit Team America alright. Can't blame 'em.

Trine

Jawgap wrote: »

The press conference is only short of chanting U-S-A!

But in fairness it's deserved and in terms of science leadership probably true.

True, but the last speaker just ended with "continuing America's leadership on Earth and the Universe"...

To be expected I guess after such an achievement, but that was a bit much!

muskyj

Jawgap wrote: »

The press conference is only short of chanting U-S-A!

But in fairness it's deserved and in terms of science leadership probably true.

there is a fair bit of 'this what we can achieve with the right funding congress' going on there as well i would say.

Jawgap

No, they deserve it.

Should get some interesting discussion now that 'politicians' have gone.

The kids were asking me why I was getting do excited about this so I took them outside and showed them our car and told them to go figure how to launch it from earth and land it on Mars without breaking it!

Jawgap

Jeeez.....it's like the teacher left the room!

Cú Giobach

Jawgap wrote: »

The kids were asking me why I was getting do excited about this so I took them outside and showed them our car and told them to go figure how to launch it from earth and land it on Mars without breaking it!

Part one, use a rocket originally developed by Germans.

Turtwig

Cú Giobach wrote: »

Part one, use a rocket originally developed by Germans.

Curiosity was launched on an Ares rocket, can't remember the exact model.

zenno

Jernal wrote: »

Well the money used to bail out the banks could have been used to fund our own project to get a rover or probe or something on Venus? At least, that's what I'm half dreaming of.

Too true, but try to explain what a rover is or any other space craft to our government lol they wouldn't have a clue what it all means the old farts will be gone soon and we will have younger scientists and brighter minds to progress us forward, hopefully.

Jawgap

Cú Giobach wrote: »

Part one, use a rocket originally developed by Germans.

I think the Russians (Tsiolkovsky) and Yanks (Goddard) had a hand - the Germans just scaled it up:) Then the Americans did what they do best - make it even bigger, noisier and rocketier!:D

Cú Giobach

Jernal wrote: »

Curiosity was launched on an Ares rocket, can't remember the exact model.

I was going back a bit further, to people like Wernher von Braun.

Jawgap

Jernal wrote: »

Curiosity was launched on an Ares rocket, can't remember the exact model.

Think they'll mention that the rocket was powered by a Russian built motor!

Turtwig

Cú Giobach wrote: »

I was going back a bit further, to people like Wernher von Braun.

I know.

Cú Giobach

Jawgap wrote: »

I think the Russians (Tsiolkovsky) and Yanks (Goddard) had a hand - the Germans just scaled it up:) Then the Americans did what they do best - make it even bigger, noisier and rocketier!:D

Tsiolkovsky and Goddard built the wheel, the Germans built the car.

Jawgap

Difficult not to like yer man Steltzner from what I've seen of him