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2012-08-06, 01:37 AM | #1 |
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FUCK YEAH! Curiousity landed okay and sending images
Excellent. Pretty much the best that humans can do has just been done.
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2012-08-06, 07:29 AM | #2 |
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Work up at 2 am and had to check if it had been successful and was amazed that it was.
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2012-08-06, 09:40 AM | #3 |
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I'm following it on Twitter
https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity Since you 2 seem to know a lot more than I do about it, can you post some good links/sites for us novice people to look at? |
2012-08-06, 11:56 AM | #4 |
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I watched it live from the time their livestream had 7800 viewers to the time it had over 200k.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html is the mission page, space.com had a really good writeup as well. http://www.space.com/16385-curiosity...aboratory.html The original 7 minutes of terror video: A great tweet: Gold medal for NASA in the 563 billion meters Matthew Inman (TheOatmeal) found this image in their hidden stash: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h.../s407/mars.jpg This was a fairly apt tweet: https://twitter.com/JobVranish/statu...07550173925377 Another one of the first pictures: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D...0/BaDumTss.jpg
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Let there be Martians. Let there be Martians. Let there be Martians.
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2012-08-06, 02:18 PM | #6 |
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Hope they come in peace
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2012-08-06, 05:45 PM | #7 |
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Another good image: http://i.imgur.com/GZUt9.png
Oreo's Tweet: https://twitter.com/Oreo/status/232264730700566528
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NASA’s Nuclear-Powered Mars Rover Curiosity Essentially Has The Same Brain As A Bondi Blue iMac G3
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2012-08-06, 06:26 PM | #10 |
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oh noes, now we got two years of mac snobbery to look forward to. or more.
lets hope it's more. the pic with alien is funny. |
2012-08-06, 06:32 PM | #11 |
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Just means that the average smart phone has way more computing power than the rover.
That Mac came out back when I was still doing computer consulting. I both loved it and hated it. |
2012-08-06, 06:41 PM | #12 |
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that seems to reveal an odd robot building engineering concept.
why wouldn't you build a robot like that with a design that uses computing technology only a few generations old? couldn't you set up the engineering process so the computing functions can be updated as you go along? I understand one needs to write all kinds of specialized programs, but, still, seems odd that they would accept such limitations. |
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I wonder if there any images of it coming down on its rockets after the chute was released?
At some point they will probably locate the wreckage of the rockets. Be really cool if it finds some fossils or something. |
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I'm not talking about conspiracy theory or any other top secret stuff that the internet is just full of it, aliens etc.. but just the ability of catching a landing moment of one space ship on Mars with another ship orbiting Mars, millions of miles from Earth is just astounding. NASA's super computing power and the ability to use those huge amount of data is definitely something. |
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4 frames per second, 297 frames during landing.
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Cleo, we have used the orbiters to find older crashed stages, and, did find the Beagle (the UK lander that crashed) and confirmed it in late 2006 when the RO arrived. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/multimedia/images/ shows some of the pictures - including pictures of Spirit and Opportunity.
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Basically, they picked the best chip at the time, wrote the OS around it - it was compatible with prior chips, does embedded very well, is reliable, true and tested, and they have millions of lines of code to support it. In order to use newer chips, we have to fix their power consumption, deal with segmented memory architectures, etc. Though, segmented memory architecture is less noticeable now with 64bit CPUs.
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But does it have the Mac startup sound when it boots?
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2012-08-07, 01:40 PM | #21 |
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The last rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ) that landed on MARS, are still "alive" ?
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2012-08-07, 05:34 PM | #23 |
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Everyone forgets poor Sojourner.
And the two Viking missions in 1975. But yes, Opportunity (landed March 2004) and Curiosity are currently the only two landers operating on the planet. Orbiting, we have Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey.
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