[video=youtube;N9hXqzkH7YA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9hXqzkH7YA&feature=relmfu[/video]

More amazing stuff from JPL and NASA. :shock:

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unreal.... simply unreal what we are now capable of.

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First full color image:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6sdfo.jpg[/IMG]

Not very exciting. :lol:

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[img]http://i.imgur.com/HC9I1.png[/img]

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[QUOTE=Kamal;1053942]unreal.... simply unreal what we are now capable of.[/QUOTE]

Very true, considering the first "flight" with Wright brothers on 1903.. 66 years later to the moon and then 43 years later to Mars :lol:

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[QUOTE=res0nat0r;1054062][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HC9I1.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

:roflmao:

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Ha we should already have a colony on the moon and mars!

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^Maybe there is

[IMG]http://astrobioloblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/drake-equation.jpg[/IMG]

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Ohh Hellzz to the yeahh.

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[IMG]http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/mars-rover-11.jpg?w=500&h=460[/IMG]

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From Wikipedia - Curiosity expected to survive 14 years on the basis of 4.8 Kg of Plutonium presently onboard

[QUOTE]Power source: Curiosity is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), like the successful Viking 1 and Viking 2 Mars landers in 1976.[14][15] Radioisotope power systems (RPSs) are generators that produce electricity from the natural decay of plutonium-238, which is a non-fissile isotope of plutonium. Heat given off by the natural decay of this isotope is converted into electricity, providing constant power during all seasons and through the day and night, and waste heat can be used via pipes to warm systems, freeing electrical power for the operation of the vehicle and instruments.[14][15] Curiosity's RTG is fueled by 4.8 kg (11 lb) of plutonium-238 dioxide supplied by the U.S. Department of Energy,[16] packed in 32 pellets each about the size of a marshmallow (≈20 cm3).[10] Curiosity's power generator is the latest RTG generation built by Boeing, called the "Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator" or MMRTG.[17] Based on classical RTG technology, it represents a more flexible and compact development step,[17] and is designed to produce 125 watts of electrical power from about 2000 watts of thermal power at the start of the mission.[14][15] The MMRTG produces less power over time as its plutonium fuel decays: at its minimum lifetime of 14 years, electrical power output is down to 100 watts.[18][19] The power source will generate 9 MJ (2.5 kilowatt hours) per day, much more than the Mars Exploration Rovers' solar panels, which can generate about 2.1 MJ (0.6 kilowatt hours) per day.[/QUOTE]

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Sunrise on Mars from Curiosity, amazing:

[IMG]http://i50.tinypic.com/2e49a82.jpg[/IMG]

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This was also released but not widely published:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/t8bIO.jpg[/IMG]

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[video=youtube;-mGF2fORhV4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mGF2fORhV4[/video]

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[video=youtube;ZAjCXXCXUIM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAjCXXCXUIM[/video]

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Saw a video explaining the mechanics of the landing. So mad. Amazing stuff.

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[QUOTE=Jenks;1054338]Sunrise on Mars from Curiosity, amazing:

[IMG]http://i50.tinypic.com/2e49a82.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

is cloudy on Mars. I see. :D

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[QUOTE=Jenks;1054338]Sunrise on Mars from Curiosity, amazing:

[IMG]http://i50.tinypic.com/2e49a82.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

That was actually taken in 2005 by the Spirit rover. [url="http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_347.html"]http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_347.html[/url]

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[QUOTE=six6;1054584]That was actually taken in 2005 by the Spirit rover. [URL]http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_347.html[/URL][/QUOTE]

myth busted!

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:imperialists ;)

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^Haha

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:lol:

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[QUOTE=Kat;1055462][IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/246929_2363871713854_1877803980_n.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

^^ [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nlxrO.png[/IMG]

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Curiosity Rover: Martian solar day 2.

[url="http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731"]Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2 - Fullscreen 360 VR Panorama[/url]

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O...M....F....G .... dude .... DUDE what a shot.

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[QUOTE=res0nat0r;1055587]Curiosity Rover: Martian solar day 2.

[URL="http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731"]Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2 - Fullscreen 360 VR Panorama[/URL][/QUOTE]

Amazing .....

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[QUOTE=Kamal;1055639]O...M....F....G .... dude .... DUDE what a shot.[/QUOTE]

Really cool. Love that you can see the rover in the shot. I did the full 360, and while granted, there's not much to see, there is so much to think about when you consider the fact that we're on another planet.

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[QUOTE=Jenks;1055648]Really cool. Love that you can see the rover in the shot. I did the full 360, and while granted, there's not much to see, there is so much to think about when you consider the fact that we're on another planet.[/QUOTE]

That's exactly it, I kept looking around saying, "this is Mars, this is MARS", and the sun, just looking at it and thinking that it's being observed and photographed about 100 million miles further out, and then panning down at the curiosity rover and looking back up at the rocks and the terrain and the dust and back up at the sun. Holy hell, we sure have come far from poop slinging and banana feasts.

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incredible thx rez

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[QUOTE]Last Tuesday the team at NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory finished what amounted to a complete overhaul of the Curiosity Rover’s software. Asked why this was necessary, Ben Cichy, Curiosity’s chief software engineer, explains that the software required to help Curiosity land on the surface of Mars and the software it needs to drive around and avoid obstacles is completely different. But as we’ve reported, Curiosity’s hardware is pretty modest. Cichy says it didn’t have enough memory to hold the software for both the landing mission and the surface mission, so the software had to be swapped out remotely after landing.

The process took four days. “We had to be really, really careful, we didn’t want to ‘brick’ the rover and end up not being able to communicate with it anymore,” says Cichy. “We were very methodical.” [/QUOTE]

[url="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/nasa-patch/"]NASA Pulls Off 160-Million-Mile Software Patch | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com[/url]

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You guys read about the camera? I read somewhere that the camera is only 2 MP but the lens on it can really zoom out. The reason for the smaller MP is because of limited bandwidth and with the amount of other test data that the curiosity is beaming back, they didn't want their precious bandwidth getting bogged down sending 20 megabyte photos (in addition to the fact that all of this hardware was approved nearly a decade ago).

So using a 2MP camera and zooming far out, it takes a series of photos which are stitched back together on earth.

Think about that when you pan around that image and look at the clarity and depth of field of the terrain and that was only day 2.

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It's fucking incredible to see another planet very similar to ours. I cant imagine, if the people can go there in the next 100 years.

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[QUOTE=Kamal;1055649] we sure have come far from poop slinging and banana feasts.[/QUOTE]

Hey, I like to sling poop as much as the next guy, but it's great to pause and give props to the awesome feats our fellow man can accomplish.

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[QUOTE=Kamal;1055654]You guys read about the camera? I read somewhere that the camera is only 2 MP but the lens on it can really zoom out. The reason for the smaller MP is because of limited bandwidth and with the amount of other test data that the curiosity is beaming back, they didn't want their precious bandwidth getting bogged down sending 20 megabyte photos (in addition to the fact that all of this hardware was approved nearly a decade ago).

So using a 2MP camera and zooming far out, it takes a series of photos which are stitched back together on earth.

Think about that when you pan around that image and look at the clarity and depth of field of the terrain and that was only day 2.[/QUOTE]

Didn't know that about the camera, that's pretty cool. I would have guessed a much more powerful camera, but it makes a ton of sense with bandwidth issues.

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[QUOTE=Jenks;1055657]Didn't know that about the camera, that's pretty cool. I would have guessed a much more powerful camera, but it makes a ton of sense with bandwidth issues.[/QUOTE]

Right? You would think there would be another powerful camera taking automatic photos and storing them on a memory card to be retrieved after the mission or something :lol:.

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They could've just sent an iPhone or Android along with Curiosity :lol:

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Yep, but the iPhone was launched in 2007 and the hardware for the curiosity, which was top of the line at the time, had already been selected and approved back in 2004 ;)

I guess the next batch of Rovers will start doing a lot more.

I just read that the Curiosity can transmit a max of 32 MB / day of data back to the 2 orbiting satellites. That's slower than USB 1.0 speeds.

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How do they transmit? Radio?