MSL Artist's Concept (February 2007) |
MSL Artist's Concept (February 2007) |
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Feb 22 2007, 01:38 AM
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Feb 22 2007, 03:21 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Seems to be evolving nicely. When is the critical design review going to happen?
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 22 2007, 03:45 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Looks quite familiar Gosh, I sure hope we are having so much fun watching the images come in in 2009 and beyond.
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Feb 22 2007, 03:53 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 14-July 06 Member No.: 972 |
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Feb 23 2007, 05:27 PM
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Feb 23 2007, 08:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
Nice to see a little 'payback' for War of the Worlds! Run, you Martians!
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Feb 24 2007, 03:04 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
According to the latest NASA budget request, June. Eluchil Thanks, Eluchil, and welcome! Looks like the final version should be pretty close to this illustration, then...quite a dynamic-looking machine! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Mar 1 2007, 08:27 PM
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SpaceDev’s Starsys Division Awarded $1.4M Contract for NASA Mars Science Explorer Mission
Starsys to Provide Descent Brake Damper for Lander SpaceDev, Inc. February 28, 2007 |
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Mar 2 2007, 12:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 23-March 06 Member No.: 723 |
Looks like a child of the MER and Viking, the Chem instruments and Mars Descent Imager look great and I'm happy somebody has finally considered putting a rad detector on the red planet to finally see if our Martian colonists can put up with the radiation.
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Mar 3 2007, 08:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
..."somebody has finally considered putting a rad detector on the red planet"....
The 2001 lander (reborn as Phoenix) carried a sister instrument to the MARIE instrument on the 2001 Odyssey orbiter so that common-design, cross-calibrated instruments could take data from orbit and on the surface. Well.. NASA HQ got cold feed and cold-storaged the lander, and the orbiter's instrument only briefly worked in Mars orbit before a fatal hardware fault. Oops. |
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Mar 3 2007, 03:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2511 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
...the orbiter's instrument only briefly worked in Mars orbit before a fatal hardware fault. It worked in orbit from March 2002 to October 2003; I wouldn't call that "briefly". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Radiatio...ment_Experiment Looks like the MARIE website at JSC has gone dark. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Mar 4 2007, 08:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
That's longer than I remembered. Most of the Primary mission. Still wish we had gotten it's sister instrument onto the surface.
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Apr 10 2007, 12:30 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 10-April 07 Member No.: 1945 |
We're actually suppying the thruster valves to control the powered descent of the 'crane'.
Pretty scary stuff if you ask me! |
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May 12 2007, 02:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 7-December 06 From: Sheffield UK Member No.: 1462 |
Great pic on MSL website. Good to see the thing starting to come together!
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/galler...w_Crop_2_br.jpg I wonder where those wheels will take it? -------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
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May 12 2007, 04:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 6-April 06 From: Cape Canaveral Member No.: 734 |
Need something in the pic to show the size. It is as big as a Mini Cooper. JPL has permission to use the images of the Mini Cooper to show comparisions. Photo is taken from drop/landing testing. Don't think they are calling it "skycrane" testing
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