MSL Curiosity Lands Safely in Gale Crater, Landing and Commissioning Activity Period 1A, sols 0-8 |
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MSL Curiosity Lands Safely in Gale Crater, Landing and Commissioning Activity Period 1A, sols 0-8 |
 Aug 6 2012, 06:20 AM
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Those rocks look small, but then again we're higher up than we're used to, eh!
 Huge congrats to everyone involved. I can't wait to join in with you guys and the rest of us armchair explorers as we explore another part of Mars!  
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 Aug 6 2012, 06:22 AM
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Cheers to Australia....
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Aug 6 2012, 06:27 AM
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Choking up over my good-luck peanuts and some beer. As usual, couldn't believe how fast it went by.
Congratulations to Rob and the EDL team. And a big thank you for taking the time to keep us posted on umsf.com. Rob, how about putting in for a sabbatical and writing that book we're all waiting to read ... TTT |
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Aug 6 2012, 06:29 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 30-April 05 From: Missouri, USA Member No.: 370 |
Man, the web is slow right now... here are deep links to the raw images:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...AUT_04096M_.JPG http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...AUT_04096M_.JPG http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...AUT_04096M_.JPG http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...AUT_04096M_.JPG My rough 3D:   |
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Aug 6 2012, 06:29 AM
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Party like it's 2004 all over again!
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Aug 6 2012, 06:31 AM
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QUOTE (akuo @ Aug 6 2012, 01:20 AM)  Rob and folks, you make this stuff look easy. Congratulations! Looking at the trafickability maps modified by Tesh for Google Earth (Mars) with the reported touchdown co-ordinates -4.591817 137.440247. Looks nice and flat. Here's the location I get from those coordinates:
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Aug 6 2012, 06:31 AM
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QUOTE (Fred B @ Aug 6 2012, 01:29 AM) Man, the web is slow right now... here are deep links to the raw images: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...AUT_04096M_.JPG http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...AUT_04096M_.JPG http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...AUT_04096M_.JPG http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...AUT_04096M_.JPG My rough 3D: Wow 3D already, I love this site :-) |
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Aug 6 2012, 06:31 AM
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 The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
This is just insane. First image down and it's the perfect angle for a self-portrait shadow.
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Aug 6 2012, 06:33 AM
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Admin Notice:
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Aug 6 2012, 06:36 AM
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Looks like a nice, smooth landing site where driving should be no problem. Apparently much less rocky than the Viking, Pathfinder and Spirit landing sites.
People seem so happy/elated that the news briefing looks a bit 'chaotic' and difficult to start which in this case is a good thing. .Big congratulations to everyone involved. |
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Aug 6 2012, 06:37 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
"Flat"? I'll say...
Note: that's NOT Mt Sharp on the left, that's just a result of the distortion filter applied to the image to flatten the horizon. And looking the other way, forwards...
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Aug 6 2012, 06:38 AM
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So a little down range from center, but realy excellent! Just means less driving until we get to the interesting stuff
QUOTE (jmknapp @ Aug 6 2012, 02:31 AM) Here's the location I get from those coordinates:
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Aug 6 2012, 06:38 AM
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Just spotted Emily at the press conference.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Aug 6 2012, 06:39 AM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
day was rising here as we knew Curiosity had successfully landed, needless to say that, as 8 years ago, emotions took over the dawn.
thank you all who made this a reality, love you, really. now...let Curiosity explore! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Aug 6 2012, 06:44 AM
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Congrats to the MSL team and everyone at JPL from everyone here in my workplace! We used the dual projectors in our conference room to watch both the NASA-JPL ustream and the Eyes-On-The-Solar-System simulation simultaneously. In the words of my co-workers, this was "awesome!" "amazing!" "great fun!" and "unbelieveable!"
Looks like they landed long again! Go humans! |
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