Edit - It's the 9th of August now and pictures are coming in on a daily basis. Check this thread daily! ------------------------------------- I've been waiting for this for months. This rover is as big as a compact car, has HD video cameras on it, and not to mention a myriad of other scientific instruments (high resolution microscope, spectrometers, etc). The thing is so big that they're using a different system to land it. Let's hope it makes it! I will be glued to NASA TV on Sunday. (Update - landed perfectly!) The Rover is due to land in the Gale crater (it's just chillin there right now) - which they think was a lake at one point. Here's the official site of the rover with a countdown (3 days and 1 hour from this post): Space, Stars, Mars, Earth, Planets and More - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Edit: That site now contains all of the images and will keep receiving more.) Interesting times! Who else loves the red planet and can't wait to see its first HD images of the surface (there were other nice images from rovers, but these are going to be even better)? That's assuming it even lands without fucking up! (It didn't fuck up!) I hope it lands ok... It should. We'll all see soon enough! (I said it landed OK, ass-clown!) Curiosity rover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Another edit: This is EXACTLY how I watched it land - the way this guy had his windows and screen set up with the telemetry program and the live feeds (I had two running, he had one): [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhUbu2GTIv8&feature=g-hist[/ame] Watch in HD! It was amazing to have that same program running that Mission Control had running on their screens!
Sounds pretty fuckin' legit. It's too bad that most of the interesting stuff (if any is found) will be kept from us.
^Beat me to it Cool but I don't really know what were going to find (or if it's worth it). But still, I'd rather tax payer money go to stuff like this than war any day.
truth im excited too, im nervous though...their new landing system seems crazy complicated...lots of opportunity for failure. here is an interesting article if you'd want to learn more about the success and failure rates for mars missions Curiosity's Chances? Most Mars Missions Crash, Burn or Disappear | Wired Science | Wired.com
It's going to be fucking great, I'm going to Planetfest to be there for the live landing of the rover. Going out to dinner with Jim Bell tonight to talk about the rover with some family of mine and buddies of Jim Bell. Should be a g'd weekend Getting to see tons of lectures tomorrow about the mission, from and get to go to a dinner with all the donors. Will give ya'll a first hand report I highly doubt this project will even go through, who would risk their entires lives to fly to Mars, and remain there until they die? That would be insanely lonely, and after awhile quite boring IMO. I'm waiting for the project to flop My uncle has had extended discussions with the people involved on the project, and they've ran the landing simulation millions of times. One of the key people on the project said he was more worried about the takeoff (from earth,) than the actual landing it's self.
A little over 12 hours until we find out what's happening! The landing is for 10:31pm PST time, we should get the final answer at around 10:40-10:45pm.
[quote name='"Frotto"']Sounds pretty fuckin' legit. It's too bad that most of the interesting stuff (if any is found) will be kept from us.[/quote] They arent going to keep stuff from us. They may withhold scientific findings that aren't conclusive to.keep people from making weird.claims. But.its botnlike there is life on Mars and they are going to.lie about it
well there is over 7 billion people on the planet, im sure a select few would be willing to attempt to colonize mars. i mean if anything they would atleast be known for the rest of everness as the first humans to walk on mars, assuming they survive the landing.
there would be plenty of people willing to go to mars. there were plenty of people willing to go to the moon knowing full well that there was a strong chance they could be stranded there and left to die.
Heres a live feed if anyone wants to watch it. NASA JPL Live, Ustream.TV: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites you to watch live and chat about everything from Mars rovers to monitoring asteroids to...