A fine self portrait by the Curiosity Rover at the ‘John Klein’ Drilling Site. Gives a real sense of the middle of nowhere that this machine is at. Warning – giant image size:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/725560main_PIA16764_selfie2ndfincrop_full.jpg
Beautiful detail of the rover itself, you can read the part numbers on the bits…
Picture doesn’t load for me for some reason.
:-/the net seems to be censored for you witty.
It’s a very complicated bit of kit. Note the many dust and stone particles starting to accumulate on its flatter surfaces. There are also a few deep dents in the wheels.
Strangely enough the picture loads fine on IE. BTW IE is still a slow piece of shit of a browser.
It’s landing was the best, simply the best.
I gave it no chance, I was confident it would crash and burn to ashes the dreams and hopes of a generation of NASA scientists.
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s landing was the best, simply the best.
I gave it no chance, I was confident it would crash and burn to ashes the dreams and hopes of a generation of NASA scientists.
I still don’t know why you considered the landing routine so problematic.
.. and they’re off. Bang on half past the hour as scheduled.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s landing was the best, simply the best.
I gave it no chance, I was confident it would crash and burn to ashes the dreams and hopes of a generation of NASA scientists.
I still don’t know why you considered the landing routine so problematic.
you dont know what now??
you cannot be serious
>I still don’t know why you considered the landing routine so problematic.
The number of things that could have gone wrong was rather overwhelming.
Bubblecar said:
>I still don’t know why you considered the landing routine so problematic.The number of things that could have gone wrong was rather overwhelming.
Evidence suggests otherwise…in this case.
Well the thing is landing on Mars. There’s not a very good track record of getting there successfully (although the odds are getting better).
>Evidence suggests otherwise…in this case.
Well, none of the things that could have gone wrong did go wrong.
Be interesting to try to land a hundred of them and see how many make it.
the odds of anything landing on mars are a million to one….
Dropbear said:
you dont know what now??
you cannot be serious
The landing routine was very similar to those of the Apollo program with the added decelerant of a parachute.
Bubblecar said:
>Evidence suggests otherwise…in this case.Well, none of the things that could have gone wrong did go wrong.
Be interesting to try to land a hundred of them and see how many make it.
meh it’s proven technology now ;) heheh
Witty Rejoinder said:
Dropbear said:you dont know what now??
you cannot be serious
The landing routine was very similar to those of the Apollo program with the added decelerant of a parachute.
in so far as they both landed, yes, in just about any other way, no
Witty Rejoinder said:
Dropbear said:you dont know what now??
you cannot be serious
The landing routine was very similar to those of the Apollo program with the added decelerant of a parachute.
yeah, no aerobraking and no parachute and no crane. pick the difference.
the sky-crane was a phenomenally ballsy move..
And no pilot.
In the end you are relying on thrusters to slow the craft down. I had faith that these thrusters would work as planned.
should have called it a skyhook.
Witty Rejoinder said:
In the end you are relying on thrusters to slow the craft down. I had faith that these thrusters would work as planned.
all four had to fire, and with a similar amount of thrust.. any asymmetric situation would have gone tits up rather quickly.
The elephant jockeys seem to be on track for about 800.
Tendulkar is not in yet FFS :(
They made this before it landed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s
And I was laughing at them like some sort of idiot mainland Zarkov.
And well worth reliving the culmination of probably the most exciting time of their lives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c69DwCpeW88
what is holding the camera
Boris said:
what is holding the camera
must be greys as mars would be too cold for the reptilians.
Boris said:
must be greys as mars would be too cold for the reptilians.
Quite possibly.
I suspect what they did was stitch together a few photos into one so they could eliminate the camera arm.
NASA explains: The rover’s robotic arm is not visible in the mosaic. MAHLI, which took the component images for this mosaic, is mounted on a turret at the end of the arm. Wrist motions and turret rotations on the arm allowed MAHLI to acquire the mosaic’s component images. The arm was positioned out of the shot in the images or portions of images used in the mosaic.
damn you all for spoiling my conspiracy!!!
shakes fist at killjoys.
;-)
Bubblecar said:
NASA explains: The rover’s robotic arm is not visible in the mosaic. MAHLI, which took the component images for this mosaic, is mounted on a turret at the end of the arm. Wrist motions and turret rotations on the arm allowed MAHLI to acquire the mosaic’s component images. The arm was positioned out of the shot in the images or portions of images used in the mosaic.
This whole concept of image manipulation at the source has got me intrigued. Does the rover send the original images as well as the mosaic?
Might find the info you seek here, Carmen. This is the mob that built and operates the imaging systems:
http://www.msss.com/