Countdown: Curiousity Mars landing

CCIP · 08-06-12, 01:41 AM

Great news!

Can't wait to see what data comes out in the next few days. Hopefully this is going to be as exciting scientifically as Spirit and Opportunity had been.

TarJak · 08-06-12, 02:16 AM

Some cool images from the lander already starting to come through... http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ma...ity_news3.html

Gargamel · 08-06-12, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by CCIP

Great news!

Can't wait to see what data comes out in the next few days. Hopefully this is going to be as exciting scientifically as Spirit and Opportunity had been.

There's no way the mission can be as successful longevity wise. 90 day warranty and they last how many years now?

At that rate, people will be disappointed if it doesn't last 30 years.

Would be cool to see them meet up in 75 years though.

Rhodes · 08-06-12, 12:24 PM

Hoax, it's all a hoax!!! All photoshop and theatre!

u crank · 08-06-12, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Rhodes

Hoax, it's all a hoax!!! All photoshop and theatre!

Oh man, not another one.

Betonov · 08-06-12, 03:35 PM

Mars orbiter sees Curiosity's parachute deployed from above

razark · 08-06-12, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Rhodes

Hoax, it's all a hoax!!! All photoshop and theatre!

It was all filmed on a soundstage on the Moon!

mapuc · 08-06-12, 07:33 PM

Will we see an another race in space, like the one between USA and USSR?

I think so, only this time it will be between USA and China- I think that after China have put a man on the Moon(if not the alien prevent them to do so

) -they will go further and go for Mars

For America it will be a real blow if China is the first country to put a man on Mars and not them.

Markus

Platapus · 08-06-12, 07:46 PM

It will be a long time before China can send a man to Mars.

For some of us here, we will be dead by the time the US sends men to Mars.

Gargamel · 08-06-12, 07:58 PM

Actually, I think china beating the us/ESA/rus to mars might be a good thing for those space agencies.

Oberon · 08-06-12, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

It will be a long time before China can send a man to Mars.

For some of us here, we will be dead by the time the US sends men to Mars.

Not for want of manpower, I think there are thousands of people who would volunteer to go to Mars, of course, out of them only perhaps 25% would be fit enough to be able to actually go...but that's still at least two hundred people.
If only we could put the kind of energy that put a man on the moon into putting a man onto Mars, and then further on.

We have the technology, we have the manpower, we have the need, but we've built such complex walls and rules around advancement and technology based upon finance that it is choking us.

I hope I live to see pictures of mankinds first step on Mars, I really do.

Onkel Neal · 08-07-12, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

It will be a long time before China can send a man to Mars.

For some of us here, we will be dead by the time the US sends men to Mars.

You're probably right, that's too bad.

Nice video of the complex landing sequence
7 Minutes of Terror

08-06-12, 01:41 AM	#1
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Great news! Can't wait to see what data comes out in the next few days. Hopefully this is going to be as exciting scientifically as Spirit and Opportunity had been. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

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Rhodes Silent Hunter Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Figueira da Foz, Portugal Posts: 4,520 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	Hoax, it's all a hoax!!! All photoshop and theatre! __________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16416646@N05/

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,384 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	It will be a long time before China can send a man to Mars. For some of us here, we will be dead by the time the US sends men to Mars. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	Actually, I think china beating the us/ESA/rus to mars might be a good thing for those space agencies. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

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TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Some cool images from the lander already starting to come through... http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ma...ity_news3.html

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Betonov Navy Seal Join Date: May 2009 Location: Slovenia Posts: 8,647 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Mars orbiter sees Curiosity's parachute deployed from above

08-06-12, 07:33 PM	#8
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,543 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	Will we see an another race in space, like the one between USA and USSR? I think so, only this time it will be between USA and China- I think that after China have put a man on the Moon(if not the alien prevent them to do so ) -they will go further and go for Mars For America it will be a real blow if China is the first country to put a man on Mars and not them. Markus