COKid Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 www.nasa.gov for live coverage. :D USA USA USA!!! Sometimes, even with all our problems, we can still do good for the world. Ice_Blue 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_Blue Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Congratulations, NASA! This is for me the equivalent of the 1969 moon landings. Congratulations, America! You have shown the world that you still got game! COKid 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahhell Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 The room going bananas when the landing was confirmed was awesome. I was actually getting a bit emotional watching that. lol Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064385 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebula2020 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 I watched it live also. I really didn't think it would make it, such a complicated landing process. Well done to all. Mine and my family's name is on the rover. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 YEEEE-HAWWWWW!!!!!!! ?ALLRIGHT!!? NASA-JPL ROCKS!!!! The imagery is gonna be fantastic, but the lab results are where the really interesting stuff will.come from.? This is gonna be fun :) (Y) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShiZZa Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 http://mars.jpl.nasa...multimedia/raw/ http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/raw/ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-indexEvents.html Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royalty Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats USA! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
argonite Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 I'm imaging the first image will come back upside down. "... Dammit!" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Amazing! - I really had my doubts that their landing system would work due to it being so complicated but damn did they pull it off! I can't wait to see the images we get back from this. Congratulations USA! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_Blue Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 www.nasa.gov for live coverage. :D USA USA USA!!! Sometimes, even with all our problems, we can still do good for the world. As proven tonight. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_Blue Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 I watched it live also. I really didn't think it would make it, such a complicated landing process. Well done to all. Mine and my family's name is on the rover. :) Good show, old chap! :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 There is a lot of talk about consolidating NASA centers because, frankly, there are too many of them, but JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Draper Labs need not only to be left alone but expanded. Those folks know their sh*t and should be the models for any consolidated centers. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 watched it live and cried most of the time with joy :cry: congrats to the team and to humanity, this is a huge step towards our next evolution - becoming a true spacefaring civilization. i am beyond moved and hopeful right now. my only disappointment is that there was no video of the landing...i thought Curio was loaded with HD cameras so that this time it could be different, more live, more exciting and more tangible? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahhell Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 NASA site must be getting hammered. Pics are still down. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ Dot Matrix 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_Blue Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 There is a lot of talk about consolidating NASA centers because, frankly, there are too many of them, but JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Draper Labs need not only to be left alone but expanded. Those folks know their sh*t and should be the models for any consolidated centers. I believe after this stunning achievement, JPL will be given more funding, i.e. they will be left alone. Dunno much about Draper, but Funding for NASA itself was increasingly coming under scrutiny. I guess they just bought themselves a fair amount of time. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogurtmaster Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Awesome for NASA. I watched the graphic animation while I had the video up. I am very proud of NASA and also proud of our country! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064455 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 New Windows 8 app idea: NASA MSL updates and links to high res pics! Live tile can display updates, and pics. Anyone? guru and cybertimber2008 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPyro Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 watched it live and cried most of the time with joy :cry: congrats to the team and to humanity, this is a huge step towards our next evolution - becoming a true spacefaring civilization. i am beyond moved and hopeful right now. my only disappointment is that there was no video of the landing...i thought Curio was loaded with HD cameras so that this time it could be different, more live, more exciting and more tangible? It takes 14 minutes for radio frequencies to reach Mars. No way they'd be able to do anything live. Once they turned off control of the rover it had to do everything else automated. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_Blue Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 watched it live and cried most of the time with joy :cry: congrats to the team and to humanity, this is a huge step towards our next evolution - becoming a true spacefaring civilization. i am beyond moved and hopeful right now. my only disappointment is that there was no video of the landing...i thought Curio was loaded with HD cameras so that this time it could be different, more live, more exciting and more tangible? After watching this tonight, I remembered Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. We all share this beautiful blue planet, which when seen from space shows no borders. Our borders are man-made, based on greed. We should all just get along, but sadly, this is a pipe dream. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoken Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Crisp and ahhell 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064467 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 It takes 14 minutes for radio frequencies to reach Mars. No way they'd be able to do anything live. Once they turned off control of the rover it had to do everything else automated. Drop an HD camera before future rovers make entry interface. :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boz Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 and it's confirmed.. Curiousity is already transmitting new pieces of information.. it found water on mars http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc_big.jpg Vice and Crisp 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgevella Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 and it's confirmed.. Curiousity is already transmitting new pieces of information.. it found water on mars http://apod.nasa.gov...rs2_gcc_big.jpg :D ... somebody has to post that in a Mars thread. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Unbelievable!!!! Looks like not only a bulls-eye landing, but the center of the center of the bulls eye. The landing speed was just 3.68 cm (1.44 inches) per second, and it landed less than 1.5 meters (4 feet) from the mission AP (aiming point.) DAMN!!!! They stuck it!!! Color images from the NavCams could be transmitted early, perhaps later today, and ESA's Mars Express is confirming the RTG (nuclear power cell) is alive and recharging the rovers batteries. :) (Y) (Y) Crisp 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 More in the Science forum, but they stuck the landing - 1.5 meters off the target. Average cost per US citizen is $7, which is just a tad more than we spend for a Wendy's Spicy Chicken value meal. (Y) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096315-curiosity-lands-on-mars/#findComment-595064537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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