Curiosity Has Landed!!

Originally posted by mac420
I'm sorry if this was already answered, I looked through and didnt see this mentioned, but didn't we get pictures from Curiosity pretty fast? I thought we'd have to wait like 15 minutes to get images back?

There were indeed factors at play which made MANY things uncertain right up to the last second.

For example, it was not clear whether the orbiting Mars Orbiter would be "in position" to receive the first images...if it would've been out of reach at the time of the landing they would've had to wait another 2 hours until it would appear again to "beam up" and then relay the image to us on Earth.

The other amazing thing was that the MRO camera was capable to actually get a picture of Curiosity on the way down with the parachute - i read there was only a 40% chance that this might be achieved.

Overall, the entire mission/landing is so perfect in all its aspects its almost scary that everything happened as planned. Mind-boggling if you watch the videos etc. with all the things involved.

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Overall, the entire mission/landing is so perfect in all its aspects its almost scary that everything happened as planned.

What was scary was that it might not.

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especially since they went live in times square, it was all or nothing and our men and women in light blue (that day) shown bright. Proud to be an American for the first time in a while.

I am sorry I cant beleive this is happening , you're not actually going to try and say this happened . Its nuts . Just can't beleive it , sorry . All I can say is dont do it , thats way too much risk i think my one eyed cat could make a more convincing video. Putin knows when to eat catfood - you dont . Thats all the sense there is this to me or the equivalent

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It must be hard to live, not having faith in humanity.

That is all i can politely say. (from what i could understand of your post, which isnt much)

Originally posted by ZIPMATT
I am sorry I cant beleive this is happening , you're not actually going to try and say this happened . Its nuts . Just can't beleive it , sorry . All I can say is dont do it , thats way too much risk i think my one eyed cat could make a more convincing video. Putin knows when to eat catfood - you dont . Thats all the sense there is this to me or the equivalent

If I told you that humans are living in "space" for more than a decade... must hard to believe.

Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by flexy123

 

Overall, the entire mission/landing is so perfect in all its aspects its almost scary that everything happened as planned.

What was scary was that it might not.

edit on 8/6/2012 by Phage because: (no reason given)

That I can agree with wholeheartedly, it was incredibly complex, and it worked. I must confess when I read into the whole scenario of events, including after the landing, I thought something was going to give, but it worked.
Just to add, it seems NASA now has a satellite pic of the heat shield.

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You trust in God, but not in your fellow man who've spent the last 10 years on this one mission alone? It went perfectly because it was meticulously planned. It takes more faith to believe in supernatural things than it does in science.

Originally posted by Alda1981
people need to realise we have a 30 light minute distance from mars... dont expect hd 1080i videos streaming directly

I thought it was a 20 minute delay?
2nd...

reply to post by DARREN1976

14 minutes, actually.
Current distance to Mars: 154,678,597miles
Speed of light: 186,000 mps
154,678,597/186,000 = 831 seconds = 13.86 minutes

This is BS.
I call this the equivalent to American Idol.
We have been in space for decades.
We have moon colonies for decades.

Originally posted by Patrol
This is BS.
I call this the equivalent to American Idol.
We have been in space for decades.
We have moon colonies for decades.

No it isn't
No it isn't
Yes we have, off and on
No we don't

From someone like me the meaning of life cannot be taken away .
Its not happening today or tomorrow , because the answers will come to me , in the end , no matter when . So if it is true , then you have faith in me .

Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by flexy123

 

Overall, the entire mission/landing is so perfect in all its aspects its almost scary that everything happened as planned.

What was scary was that it might not.

edit on 8/6/2012 by Phage because: (no reason given)

I'll second that, all my life I've been disappointed when it comes to expectations, but this landing has renewed my faith in Nasa.. Thanks to all the people involve in making this possible... Can't wait to see the pics...

just watching live press conf. showing video of the descent. amazing to think of that little machine sitting on the martian surface, limbering up for the mission. i look forward to many interesting images!

I have to apologise, when I said I read into the story, I missed the direct link antenna on the rover to Earth.
To add, it is in the X-band, although It wasn't used in the first phone home, being out of sight of Earth, the rest of the universe might have had it been activated.

Haha not sure if anyone posted this yet but google added the landing in the background of their olympic tribute.

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good eyes!

NASA is linking to 2 live streams
www.ustream.tv...
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

one is very delayed

Originally posted by ZIPMATT
From someone like me the meaning of life cannot be taken away .
Its not happening today or tomorrow , because the answers will come to me , in the end , no matter when . So if it is true , then you have faith in me .

I think you need some sleep buddy or you have drank too much.. Off to bed myself now.. What a day, it has been... Night all..