Mars Science Laboratory

Mars Science Laboratory

Postby DGFone » August 4th, 2012, 4:03 am

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

Postby Woeler » August 4th, 2012, 10:53 am

Hmm, interesting. I think Discovery Channel is going to broadcast something about it here when it lands...
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory

Postby 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.
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory

Postby Woeler » August 5th, 2012, 9:17 pm

For the people who don't follow space science that closely.

This explains it in a pretty easy way

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Re: Mars Science Laboratory

Postby Regulus » August 5th, 2012, 10:39 pm

8 more hours, I'm so excited for this. :D
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory

Postby 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! :D
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory

Postby 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

Postby DGFone » August 6th, 2012, 6:34 am

Touch down confirmed! It landed! :D

Here's the first picture taken by Curiosity: (Yes, it's 64x64 px) Image
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory

Postby 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. :D
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Re: Mars Science Laboratory

Postby DGFone » August 6th, 2012, 6:57 am

[quote="Regulus"]
Yeah. Science freaking rules. :D[/quote]

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. :lol:

Talk about irony.
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