Live Feed of Curiosity Landing on Mars!

[HoneyBadger]

I guess I should say, more accurately, it's live coverage of the Curiosity Rover landing on Mars. I don't know about all you right wing gun nuts, but I think this is really awesome stuff:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57486458-76/watch-nasas-live-coverage-of-mars-rover-landing/
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/status.html

[Ridge]

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[BuffCyclist]

I'm staying up tonight just to watch the live streaming of this on NASA TV. It's another spectacular achievement but the method of lowering Curiosity on Mars sure is ballsy!

[rocktot]

Funny, the Russians have made like 20 attempts at a successful Mars landing, and have never been able to do it. This thing is Science Fiction! 75% Chance of success I would say. Buzz Aldrin had to land his Lunar lander manually, and had like 27 seconds of fuel left.

[HoneyBadger]

This will be our 3rd successful Mars landing. Things like this remind me how F*cking awesome our country is.

[HoneyBadger]

Here's a really neat picture that shows actual size comparison of all three rovers that we have put on Mars. The smallest one was first, and the biggest one is on its way down as I write this. The size of Curiosity blows me away...
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20120117a/PIA15280_3rover-crouch_D2011_1215_D523_br.jpg

Here's a bunch more interesting info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory

[BuffCyclist]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

About 5 minutes to atmosphere entry! Live NASA TV feed link above.

[BuffCyclist]

Here's a really neat picture that shows actual size comparison of all three rovers that we have put on Mars. The smallest one was first, and the biggest one is on its way down as I write this. The size of Curiosity blows me away...
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20120117a/PIA15280_3rover-crouch_D2011_1215_D523_br.jpg

Here's a bunch more interesting info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory

The wheelbase of Curiosity is almost exactly the same size as a Mini Cooper.

[spongejosh]

TOUCHDOWN!!!

[BuffCyclist]

Well what do you know, the Sky Crane actually worked!!! [LOL]

[HoneyBadger]

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[Ridge]

FUCKING AMAZING

I recorded the live CGI animation of it while having the livestream in the background. Will piece it together tomorrow and upload to youtube.

[DFBrews]

hell ya watched the whole thing

[Great-Kazoo]

The wheelbase of Curiosity is almost exactly the same size as a Mini Cooper.


Hopefully it will be more reliable than the mini.

[HoneyBadger]

Hopefully it will be more reliable than the mini.

At $2.5 Billion, I sure hope so!

[bigshane]

That was incredible.

[BuffCyclist]

Hopefully it will be more reliable than the mini.

Hey, my 06 Mini has been extremely reliable and at 40-45mpg, it's affordable (at least more so than Curiosity), AND sporty!!

Back to Mars...

[Danimal]

Man I missed it. Just barely it seems. I guess I will have to google it now. Dont ruin the ending.

[HoneyBadger]

Great to see pictures coming back so quickly!

[GilpinGuy]

Damn! The lady just said a link to view the raw footage. Anyone get the link address? I missed it.

[HoneyBadger]

And if you need another reminder that the human race is freaking awesome:
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[bigshane]

Damn! The lady just said a link to view the raw footage. Anyone get the link address? I missed it.

they are loading some on nasa.gov, but here's the raw feed: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/raw/ it's been crashing though.

[Ridge]

they are loading some on nasa.gov, but here's the raw feed: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/raw/ it's been crashing though.

There were 210,000 people on the livestream at touchdown, all of them and 3 of their friends are hitting that site at this moment :p

[bigshane]

http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/232354875189628929/photo/1/large

[Ridge]

http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/232354875189628929/photo/1/large

Earth First!
Make Mars our bitch!

[bigshane]

Man, I was elated watching the Mars landing, but now I'm depressed after watching that.


And if you need another reminder that the human race is freaking awesome:
Lxn1-pKY-9I


Earth First!
Make Mars our bitch!
If only.

[Big Wall]

My family and I went to the Denver Museum of nature and science to watch this along with 1,300 others last night. It was absolutely amazing! Over all, we had about a 40% chance of making it to the surface, although, the US's success rate is about 73%. There are other countries on mars, but none of them would have made it without the help of the US. If there is any doubt about the US's science dominance, I would have to point out our new 1 ton asset now on mars!

This project cost about $7 for every person living in the US. The price of a movie. Very worth it if you ask me!

The event at the museum started at about 8:00 last night. It started out with interviews with engineers and scientists at the museum and then went to the NASA feed for the landing and the press conference that followed.

I cannot share the feeling when it was announced that the rover had landed and the first pictures came up. It was a very good time.

[Ridge]

FUCKING AMAZING

I recorded the live CGI animation of it while having the livestream in the background. Will piece it together tomorrow and upload to youtube.

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[HoneyBadger]

Nicely done Ridge. Thanks for putting that together.

I "liked" it on Youtube. :)

[bigshane]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/curiosity.png
xkcd.com (http://xkcd.com/1091/)

[hollohas]

This rover and landing are awesome!

This is a great video too...called "7 minutes of terror".

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=146903741

Sorry, I don't know how to embed non-youtube videos...