Waaaaay cool stuff tonight

mrbigbluelight
mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,717
edited August 2012 in The Clubhouse
Curiosity is heading for its landing on Mars

Curiosity's Landing Time
Aug 5, 2012 10:31 p.m. Pacific
Aug 6, 2012 1:31 a.m. Eastern
Aug 6, 2012 5:31 a.m. Universal

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/

Live NASA TV show starts at 8:30 pm Pacific Time

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/

Keep your fingers crossed, getting Curiosity down in one piece using the "Skycrane" is going to take an act of God and Congress.
Sal Palooza
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  • chumlie
    chumlie Posts: 8,658
    edited August 2012
    Really don't understand why the chose that skycrane deployment. Seems like there should be am easier way IMO. Anyway, cant wait to see it.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,717
    edited August 2012
    Wheels down, telemetry working, NASA D/Ling pics now ..........

    PRICELESS
    Sal Palooza
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited August 2012
    This is super cool news.
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  • PolkieMan
    PolkieMan Posts: 2,446
    edited August 2012
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  • falconcry72
    falconcry72 Posts: 3,580
    edited August 2012
    Can't sleep, so I'm watching the live feed on the NASAtv website. Curiosity has some very advanced equipment that is much more sophisticated than what was on the smaller, previous rovers. Curiosity is also much larger. Its test vehicle is shown in the pic below on the right. Look how huge it is compared to the first rover, in the middle. It'll be exciting to see what it learns over the coming days/weeks/months.

    PIA15279_3rovers-stand_D2011_1215_D521.jpg
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,717
    edited August 2012
    Couldn't sleep either, and could have spent the time doing some tasks I've needed to do for a while, but ..... the heck with it. :biggrin:

    Not exactly sure why, but I'm as pumped for this Mars mission as I was back in the day during the first moon landing.

    For those who missed the live feed, here's a Youtube video of the 5 minutes before, 5 minutes after touchdown.
    Engineers go nuts at about the 5:40 mark when "Touchdown Confirmed".

    <iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/E88d4e1gYh0?rel=0&quot; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


    Apologies to the Skycrane, although I always had complete confidence in you. :redface:
    Sal Palooza
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited August 2012
    Interesting what we can do when we put our minds to it. Hopefully this new one will find something.....like the complete cast of "Lost ". :biggrin:

    Seriously, I love this stuff. Another step in getting off this rock. Who knows, maybe someday we will find out all humans are actually Martians.
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited August 2012
    Stayed up to watch it as well. Very cool and exciting to watch.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited August 2012
    It would be great if the beginning of the Transformers movie started when the first video shot came thru.....
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited August 2012
    You guys know this is fiction just like the moon landing, right? CGI is great :biggrin:
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  • civilian
    civilian Posts: 357
    edited August 2012
    Very exciting to see the space program get something done again. I thought since the shuttle program was done the most exciting thing was going to see the Endeavour come to So-Cal
    Well the good news is if there is a problem those 2 nice Martian dudes could fix it.:cheesygrin:
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