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View Poll Results: What will Phoenix find? | |||
Water not found | 9 | 13.85% | |
Water found, no evidence of life | 32 | 49.23% | |
Water found, evidence of life | 15 | 23.08% | |
Trout and/or Crash and Burn | 9 | 13.85% | |
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06-24-2012, 11:19 AM | #52 |
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I think we need a new poll on the Curiosity rover. I think "Successful landing" would come in last behind "Crashes into a trout at 1,000 miles per hour."
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07-06-2012, 03:17 PM | #53 | |
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Curiousity will dig a little deeper into Mars ...
New rover could seek evidence of ancient Mars life just below surface, study says | Fox News Quote:
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08-04-2012, 09:14 PM | #54 | |
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Here we go. Good luck NASA.
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08-05-2012, 08:49 AM | #55 |
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Just a little too late at night to stay up for the pictures
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08-05-2012, 10:33 AM | #56 |
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I'll be watching!
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08-05-2012, 10:53 AM | #57 |
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Definitely will be staying up for this tonight. Can get some stuff done while watching the streaming video. REALLY hope it works. The pictures and what we will learn will be fantastic.
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08-05-2012, 12:31 PM | #58 |
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Think I'll play a little Endless Space while I'm watching.
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08-05-2012, 09:45 PM | #59 |
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Getting close..
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08-05-2012, 09:49 PM | #60 |
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Where will this be broadcast?
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08-05-2012, 10:03 PM | #61 |
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NASA TV. If you don't have it on your TV provider, you can watch it in HD online at the following link. Coverage starts at 11:30 EDT. About 30 min away. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html |
08-06-2012, 12:20 AM | #62 |
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This shit is fun as hell to watch. http://eyes.nasa.gov/server/player/index.html?document=$SERVERURL/content/documents/msl/edl.xml
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08-06-2012, 12:21 AM | #63 |
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300 miles left..
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08-06-2012, 12:22 AM | #64 |
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Traveling at over 12,500 MPH currently. That would be one hell of a ride.
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08-06-2012, 12:27 AM | #65 |
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Watching the simulation data is kind of like riding along with it.. Wish I had a pair of glasses to really put me there.
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08-06-2012, 12:29 AM | #66 |
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There goes the heat shield..
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08-06-2012, 12:32 AM | #67 |
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Nailed the landing.
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08-06-2012, 12:33 AM | #68 |
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Holy crap, it landed!
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08-06-2012, 12:33 AM | #69 |
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Touchdown NASA!
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08-06-2012, 12:35 AM | #70 |
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I totally want to work for NASA.
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08-06-2012, 12:35 AM | #71 |
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Really excited to see first pics.
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08-06-2012, 12:35 AM | #72 |
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First images are coming across
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08-06-2012, 12:36 AM | #73 |
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Gotta say that went off beautifully. Congrats to all those people who have put in years of research and labor to make this huge step forward happen.
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08-06-2012, 12:37 AM | #74 |
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Hi res pics coming across now
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08-06-2012, 12:39 AM | #75 |
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That was just plain awesome. Glad I stuck around. Just amazing. Fucking Mars.
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08-06-2012, 12:40 AM | #76 |
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Thats probably it for tonight, odessy is moving past the landing zone and will lose contact.
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08-06-2012, 12:42 AM | #77 |
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I've never seen so many geeks so happy at teh same time in my entire life
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08-06-2012, 08:07 AM | #79 |
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New hi-res pic that was transmitted a couple hours after landing.
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08-06-2012, 08:34 AM | #80 |
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WOO! Fuckin awesome!
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08-06-2012, 10:44 AM | #81 |
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I think I see a raptor.
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Another really nice picture.
Picture from one of the orbiting spacecraft of the Curiousity craft as it descends. |
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Yup, definitely a raptor.
F'ing super cool pic of Curiosity from one of the orbiters.
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08-06-2012, 02:16 PM | #84 |
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The new rover has already discovered a Martian life form! It was a small mammal that was unfortunately crushed by the landing. The picture shows that Curiosity killed the cat.
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Curiosity Rover @MarsCuriosity 8m Me & My Shadow... & Mount Sharp. My view of the 3-mile-high mountain in the middle of Mars' Gale crate
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Is Curiosity tweeting?
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First tweet from Curiosity: Dude, I don't know if you know this, but you NASA nerds landed me on a serious dump! Come on, the nearest Wawa is like... a MILLION miles away!
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Some pictures but nothing too exciting yet. There seems to be a dearth of info on what-when Curiousity will move and/or do experiments, soil samples etc.
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I think it has been extremely exciting already. Am I incorrect or are these the first actual color images from the surface of Mars. I believe previous color photos were digitally added. That just blows my mind.
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Let's see, I repeated the wisecrack to my son & it gave me an opportunity to realize & lament the fact he'd never seen Capricorn One. At no point in the conversation however did the word "documentary" ever come up. That said, there really isn't much that would surprise me either.
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Bunch of rocks, but pretty neat!
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Wow. Unbelievable. Those are some pretty glorious pics. Even though we have all grown up in an age where we always knew this kind of stuff was an inevitability, this is still just 100% completely awesome.
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I was having fun last night outside last night around 11pm about how Curiousity is up there and with the meteor shower..
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