Mars

Was wondering if I was the only one who watched the NASA channel last night while we landed, completely on auto pilot, on Mars again.


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Nope, I am half asleep today because of this. XKCD said it right.
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$500 million dollar shitty picture.....is that really the best we can do?
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I had it streaming on my iPad, XOOM, iPhone, and was on the NASA channel. If you guys haven't watched the 7 minutes of terror video, you really should:


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Also, if you haven't seen the recent panorama from Opportunity, it is an amazing pic:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/news/mer20120705.html

They took 817 images, taken over 6 months, and combined them into 1 pic. Looks incredible on my 3 monitor setup at the office.

Pretty cool!
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The coolest thing in the solar system. Was the pictures taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of Curiosity as it descended onto the martian surface.
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Which image are you talking about Dan?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/mro-curiosity-descent/

Its an interplanetary spacecraft orbiting another planet, taking pictures of another interplanetary spacecraft descending to the surface of that same planet.
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Oh, gotcha, and I agree completely. I didn't know until they were modeling the descent and showed both orbiters paths that they'd be crossing the area. Talk about incredible calculations to get them all 3 into the same spot at the same time.

watched it live with my wife! Cant wait for more from it.
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You would think for $500million they could send a DSLR camera with it so the pics look a bit better......
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Actually, the limitation is the 280 foot dish antenna they use to send and receive data on earth. The picures you see are the resolution they are because nasa hasn't commanded curiosity to take those bagillion megapixel images yet. It takes so much time out of more important projects that they need the bandwidth for.

$500 million also buys you a half day of war in afganistan.
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Check out how small the sun looks.

http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2#74.41,-0.55,110.0
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Thats cool!
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Relevant.

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Thanks Lain, NGT is my hero, right up there with Sagan. I share with you one of my favorite Sagan quotes, "We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
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A fellow Sagan fan? Did you hear about the remake of "Cosmos" hosted by NGT? Can't wait for that.
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Brules wrote: $500 million dollar shitty picture.....is that really the best we can do?

Goahed Makemyda wrote:

On Obama's budget, YES!