** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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That green landscape below the pod... Looks like grass or algae or something 
That green landscape below the pod... Looks like grass or algae or something
Or the ridge of a rocky outcrop.
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I think I read somewhere that the B&W images are much faster for them to download. The colour HD stuff takes a lot longer so for speed they just get the simple stuff out first.why are all the images B&W? surely 2 billion dollars buys a colour camera these days
more on topic, it's an amazing achievement.
But regardless, it's epically wonderful stuff to look at.
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Im loving this Mars stuff, and love the fact I will wake up every morning (hopefully for a long long time) and see a new picture of Mars each morning 
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That image of mount Sharp presents the same perspective issue as on the Moon. With no reference objects (that we're used to) like cloud layers, trees, relative haze from wet atmosphere (effected by distance), etc you can't tell that the mountain is actually 3 miles high. It looks like a large hill.
I'm not sure if this has already been posted, since it may have been overshadowed by the sucessful Nasa Landing on Mars, but Sir Bernard Lovell passed away yesterday - he never got to fly in space, but his research and contribution to Radio Astronomy will live on long after his death. RIP.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19164237
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19164237
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Curiosity news briefing just started:
http://ustream.tv/nasajpl
http://ustream.tv/nasajpl
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Some pics from the briefing:
Parachute and backshell
Skycrane ... the dark dust pattern shows angle at which it hit ground...
The above are the ones that look like something recognizable. The Curiosity itself and the heat shield look like specks when zoomed in on... nothing recognizable about them that I could see.
Parachute and backshell
Skycrane ... the dark dust pattern shows angle at which it hit ground...
The above are the ones that look like something recognizable. The Curiosity itself and the heat shield look like specks when zoomed in on... nothing recognizable about them that I could see.
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Wait for the main mast pics - they will be in colour and in HD!
Poor little sky crane
You have done well fella, you did good. Rest now.
Poor little sky crane
You have done well fella, you did good. Rest now.Wait for the main mast pics - they will be in colour and in HD!
Poor little sky crane
This, not many believed in him, but he proved all naysayers wrong
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Be quite neat if they drove over to have a look at it but they probably have more important things to be getting on with
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Interesting post about the rover's tech -
They said in the press conference yesterday that they would love to, but distance being one factor, the mission objectives being another and also that there could be danger around that area with the unspent fuel still on/near the sky crane, as there was some fuel leftover after dropping off Cusiosity.
Soldato
It's not planned, but then there isn't a lot of it's potential operational life that is. The crane is pretty much off limits, but i guess everything else is a possibility. The heatshield especially would be interesting to see how it held up.
Soldato
This, not many believed in him, but he proved all naysayers wrong
Hee hee yea!
I feel...they should have let it land some distance away..upright. And then sprout some sensors from the top. Like maybe as a backup antenna or something. Seems like such a waste that they had to let it crash!
Be quite neat if they drove over to have a look at it but they probably have more important things to be getting on with
Neat idea...actually I feel it would be beneficial. A good insight into how the hardware held up. I mean..we know it worked perfectly but still they should go take a look. At least to say "thank you"!
Soldato
So from a $2.5bn rover to a space program costing just ~€20,000 this year. Just a heads up that the Copenhagen Suborbitals LES test is scheduled for this Saturday, although the window opens on the 10th and ends on the 12th. More info and links to streams here:
http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/campaign2012.php
http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/campaign2012.php
Soldato
Wow - bags not riding that thing