It lands on Monday
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...m-mars/100346/
Curiosity Rover Pictures
It lands on Monday
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...m-mars/100346/
Is this the one that Howard Wolowitz built?
Awesome pics...
So many exposed wires.NASA forgot to pick up the trunking or conduits.
Hahaha no , i think that was a robotic arm for the ISSOriginally Posted by DJ...
Is this the one that Howard Wolowitz built?
Awesome pics....
A lot are wondering if it's going to end badly in a massive prang. Quite a high risk landing procedure.
If they pull it off, then this will be a massive boost to robotics technology. There must be some serious computing power to coordinate it all without any input from an operator at all.
But then, today you can buy a car which can parallel park itself.
Lands 7:31 am Monday. (our time)
Amended.
Holding thumbs. If it works it'll be a triumph. Immensely complex.
Yeah will be very interesting to see if the 'skycrane' landing system pulls off its party trick ...
Last edited by Roman4604; 05-08-2012 at 04:57 PM.
Still here ... FTL drives offline
Hopefully everything will go smoothly. The weather looks good for the landing although they might have some dust clouds afterwards. They also need to flip the Odyssey orbiter so it can get be in a better position to relay signals from Curiosity. One of Odysseys gyro wheels (can't recall the correct term) failed a couple of weeks ago so they are going to rely on an additional 'backup' wheel to compensate for that maneuver. Even the stuff that goes on in the background are pretty complex.
Godspeed Curiosity!
wow, it's a lot bigger than I thought, for some reason I was thinking of something a lot smaller.
lets hope it makes a safe landing.
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
Awesome thread, I'm so glad space exploration has been re-commissioned.
They have just issued a statement via the SPCA to inform everyone that contrary to popular belief, no cats will be harmed in the launch of this rover. Awesome news...
Looks better than anything Rover have ever made.
What will be the local time landing for it?
Did they send a chimp with to make a youtube video or to stream it for us?
Shake&Bake™. That, just happened!
Safer too...
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