Mars Rover Landing (HAPPENING NOW)

[jameshk]

NASA have released the first 300 images taken by the Curiosity Rover as it made its descent to the planet Mars. The images will eventually be stitched together to form a HD video, but for now the images can be viewed in time lapse mode from the NASA website (See link below).

In the time-lapse the heat shield (which was discarded closer to the ground) is clearly visible.

The images, even though they are only in thumb-nail form, have allowed NASA scientists to precisely locate Curiosity on the Martian surface; a latitude of -4.5895 and a longitude of 137.4417.

The High Definition Images may take several weeks to download to the computers here on Earth.

To find out more head to the links below.

-LL

Link to BBC; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19159382
NASA Time-Lapse; http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogal ... =149974611

Image Credit NASA- Showing the main science target of the Curiosity Rover, Mt Sharp

[Sexual_Chocolate]

^^ cheers for that.

[Johnlenham]

This is an awesome read.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/wh ... space.html
Why explore Space?
Also first colour pic but thats with the dust cover on. Going to be a week before that comes off.

[ketamine]

So much for it being the Red planet. Looks like Tatooine.

[ketamine]

NASA NOW ALMOST POSITIVE MARS IS ROCKY

PASADENA, CA—After initial transmissions from the Mars rover Curiosity provided multiple images of the Red Planet, officials from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed Monday that scientists are now pretty sure the surface of Mars is rocky. "There are still a lot more tests to conduct, and many additional research projects that will take quite some time to complete, but we are now more certain than ever that Mars is covered in rocks, and that those rocks are red in color," said JPL director Charles Elachi, explaining that Curiosity had already transmitted several high-resolution photographs of "a whole bunch of rocks" from its landing spot in Mars' Gale Crater. "We are only one day into our two-year expedition, but we feel confident in our hypothesis that the surface of Mars contains many kinds rocks—not just ordinary-sized rocks, but perhaps also very large ones. I would say we’ll need to send several more rovers up there, and eventually a manned mission, to prove once and for all that Mars has rocks on it." Elachi also told reporters that he is optimistic the $2.5-billion mission will be a stepping stone toward one day concluding that Mars is big, cold, and completely uninhabitable.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-n ... cky,29069/

[Johnlenham]

[particle-jim]

Neither, it's the onion

[Johnlenham]

Neither, it's the onion

I meant ketamine for posting it, I know the onion is aload of bollocks

[particle-jim]

Neither, it's the onion

I meant ketamine for posting it, I know the onion is aload of bollocks

aaaaah got ya

[ketamine]

Its for LOLs man, cool down.

[Shum]

[pkay]

America! Fuck yeah!!

Except NASA is made up of people from all over the world, but ill let it slide!
Alot of people I was chatting to saying that wasted their lives and should have gone into space related stuff so maybe if they bigged this up abit more it would get more people interested..

You should have heard the speeches at the press conference by the head of NASA and Obama's scientific advisor, they went full on AMERICA.

That likely has to do with the fact that the years of funding for NASA came from the us people. And while all mankind shares in the accomplishment, the initiative, funding, and infrastructure are American.

[Molzie]

Sorry if this has been posted.

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

[ehbes]

Sorry if this has been posted.

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

is that from curiosity ?

[pkay]

Sorry if this has been posted.

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

Fucking.dope

Also anyone notice the donuts?

[ehbes]

pkay your avatar fits perfectly with this thread

[pkay]

pkay your avatar fits perfectly with this thread

DID WE GO TO MARS OR DID WE GO HOME?

[AxeD]

Sorry if this has been posted.

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

Holy crépe, that's cool.

[jameshk]

Another panorama

http://merovingio.c2rmf.cnrs.fr/iipimage/zoomify/

[Dub_freak]