Countdown: Curiousity Mars landing

[CCIP]

Now here is a really cool video for those of you who haven't seen it yet:

http://youtu.be/fJgeoHBQpFQ

(Curiosity landing footage digitally processed to look high-definition, high-framerate)

[Dowly]

^Very nice!

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Originally Posted by Bad Astronomer

A few days ago, engineers fired up its 100 mm camera – a telephoto that has a bit more zoom to it than the cameras from which we’ve been seeing pictures. They pointed it to the base of Mount Sharp, the big mountain in the center of its new home of Gale Crater. And what it saw is, simply, breath-taking:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6...-full_full.jpg

MOAR!!!

[mapuc]

This video was shown on danish news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX7iOqLd5Mw

They said that this video have increased the conspiracy that Mars is inhabited

I say that it have some kind of natural explanation.

Markus

[soopaman2]

I watched this live on NASA TV. And had this on my computer at the same time.

http://eyes.nasa.gov/

Awesome program, while I was waiting for the lander to make it to the ground, I found myself looking at Voyager I and II, and the moons of Saturn. You can see anything in space that we know of with this. It even has a size comparison tool, so you can get an idea of how big or small the junk we sent up is.

What makes this amazing to me is how we landed it, it was too heavy for a parachute or airbag landing, so much had to happen at the right moment for this to suceed, and it did!

I am so excited that the American pioneering spirit is still alive and well! We were first on the moon! Now we have to ask the Russians for rides? Meh... (RIP Neil Armstrong)

I cannot wait until they get this thing up close to the mountain they want to look at. From what I read there is still a bit of time before they get there.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by mapuc

This video was shown on danish news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX7iOqLd5Mw

They said that this video have increased the conspiracy that Mars is inhabited

I say that it have some kind of natural explanation.

Markus

News actually showed that? Way to go whoever is doing their research!

It's not a video at all, but a still image, one of the first ones Curiosity transmitted
actually.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15972

(and same goes for the other two "UFO" videos I saw, just edited still images.)

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Dowly

News actually showed that? Way to go whoever is doing their research!

It's not a video at all, but a still image, one of the first ones Curiosity transmitted
actually.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15972

(and same goes for the other two "UFO" videos I saw, just edited still images.)

They were talking about Curiousity and showed the landing, when they showed the video above. It was not mentioned when thise footage was taken.

After I saw that, I went to youtube to see what people wrote as comment.

If people want to believe that there are intelligent life on Mars-well that's up to them- I Surely don't.

Markus

[Oberon]

It would be nice to think that there is intelligent life on Mars, but it's not very likely. I suspect that the conditions were once right for life on Mars many many millennia ago when our planet was still in its infancy, however whether or not there actually was life on it within our definition of life...well, that's the big question. I'd like to think so, but only time and exploration can give us an answer.

[soopaman2]

Mars has been a huge focus of the international space community for a good while now. One of the three artificial mars satellites orbiting and helping us relay back information and taking pictures is a British lauched satellite that lauched the failed Beagle 2 into the atmosphere.
It sure would be nice to get a camera on the landing site to see what happened as the sources I am finding seem to be full of conjecture and speculation.

Mars has been a fascination of humans since we realized it was there.

Mars, Roman god of war. One of mankinds favorite pastimes.

Our longstanding fascination with Mars intrigues me. I try to find reason for things, but why Mars?

Even before we saw all the pictures of possible signs of ancient waterflows on Mars. Romans recognized this planet had power. Greeks did too. They had no spacecraft with cameras.

Not being a skeptic, all this is of huge interest to me.