In about two day's time, the Mars rover Curiosity will be landing on the red planet and the Mars Science Laboratory mission will be able to start.
The lander is expected to make landfall around 1:31 am EST. I am certain that we will be able to watch it, or at least pictures of it, on the NASA main website. It is really cool to see humans explore worlds beyond our own, and it's impressive to see how far rovers have gone - the first mars rovers are the size of a toy car. Curiosity is the size of a small car.
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory
by UncoordinatedPisces » August 4th, 2012, 11:05 am
Cool, I'd like to see pictures and stuff of this ^.^ I think it's great what us humans can do. And in time, we'll only get better at exploring space I think.
PS. I like the name of the rover hehe. Curiosity.
PS. I like the name of the rover hehe. Curiosity.
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory
by Regulus » August 5th, 2012, 10:39 pm
8 more hours, I'm so excited for this. 
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory
by DGFone » August 6th, 2012, 3:00 am
Live coverage starts in 1.5 hours on the NASA website! I just can't wait to watch it!
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory
by Jiirani » August 6th, 2012, 3:45 am
Just you wait surely one day we will ruin Mars too
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory
by DGFone » August 6th, 2012, 6:34 am
Touch down confirmed! It landed!
Here's the first picture taken by Curiosity: (Yes, it's 64x64 px)
Here's the first picture taken by Curiosity: (Yes, it's 64x64 px)
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory
by Regulus » August 6th, 2012, 6:55 am
If we can build a robot the size and weight of a car, and land it successfully on another planet without any sort of human intervention, what can't we do?
Even if the task were to be performed on Earth, think about how difficult it would be to drop a car from space without it being destroyed.
Yeah. Science freaking rules.
Even if the task were to be performed on Earth, think about how difficult it would be to drop a car from space without it being destroyed.
Yeah. Science freaking rules.
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory
by DGFone » August 6th, 2012, 6:57 am
Regulus wrote:Yeah. Science freaking rules.
Yes it is. But I know what NASA now needs to invest in: Better serves. The rover may have landed, but all the servers (non of which had to go anywhere)... crashed. All of them.
Talk about irony.
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory
by HasiraKali » August 6th, 2012, 7:10 am
What still blows my mind is how we landed on the moon using computers that were less powerful than a modern cell phone. And we did that multiple times. Things like this really give me hope for humanity. At least some of us anyway. 
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory
by HasiraKali » August 6th, 2012, 6:49 pm
Indeed it did. It sent an image shortly afterward, and everyone was so busy celebrating they missed it. It was funny.
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