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May 11 2012, 11:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 807 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
Doug,
Thanks for digging those images out ! As I looked over each image I was thunder struck <again> by how intricate and large MSL really is. The hand lacing on the cables is exquisite work. I'll look at the bracket and see if I can come up with something in few days (there seems to be four of them, one on each corner-wheel 'mobility' arm). thanks! -------------------- CLA CLL
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May 12 2012, 12:25 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
yes amazing.. and fun little 'easter eggs' like:
"Bender" hiding in plain sight back there. And is that a 1999 penny? ..signifficance..? |
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May 12 2012, 12:30 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
It's a 1909 penny. Had MSL launch in 2009 - it would have been 100 years old at the time.
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May 12 2012, 12:48 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
"Bender" hiding in plain sight back there. Yeah, unfortunately they discovered me before I could swipe any swag... -------------------- 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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Jun 6 2012, 04:40 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
t-minus 60 days.
...and counting. -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jun 9 2012, 02:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
NASA Hosts Teleconference About Rover En Route To Mars Landing
Noon EDT, Monday, June 11 |
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Jun 9 2012, 02:47 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Look out for some landing ellipse news.
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Jun 9 2012, 03:53 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
Look out for some landing ellipse news. Old news to me ;-) When is the announcement be made? I hope they will include my traversability map. Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Jun 10 2012, 12:17 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Monday - 9am Pacific.
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Jun 11 2012, 04:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
New landing elipse:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/mult...a/pia15685.html Seems there's a problem with the drill as it contaminates the samples with teflon. They're investigating how to handle this and are confident that in the end they should be able to handle this problem. -------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Jun 12 2012, 01:08 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Do you have a link for this teflon problem, or was this a comment from a press conference?
-------------------- 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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Jun 12 2012, 02:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
I guess this makes things a little more even in the Opportunity vs. Curiosity race-for-the-clays.
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Jun 12 2012, 02:23 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
The teflon thing was in the telecon... I can't imagine it being a huge problem personally. Should be able to model its effects and subtract it.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jun 12 2012, 03:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 267 Joined: 5-February 06 Member No.: 675 |
Does anyone plan to put the landing ellipse on a .kmz file for Google Earth (and perhaps an appropriate base map plleease)? Steve M |
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Jun 12 2012, 03:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
nprev and others...
The teflon issue is mentioned in the press release. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-168 |
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