Curiosity - Mars landing

[Aussie]

The only question is if it will be our species that makes it happen, or if we fail and some other species does it instead.

Yeah.....that just about covers all bases.

[Super Nova]

The only question is if it will be our species that makes it happen, or if we fail and some other species does it instead.

Yeah.....that just about covers all bases.

What would you know Aussie you deadshit.

AM,

It will happen as you said and the risk of another lifeform creating this super lifeform is they may not be programmed to be friendly to what Humans are at that time.

So we need to get there as soon as we can for our own benefit.

[Rorschach]

So has the Cat killed Curiosity? Or is there no interesting data coming back from it as yet?

[Super Nova]

It's ready to go out and explore. Wow, they did a complete download of a new program to replace the logic needed for the space travel and landing part of the mission. Talk about clever. I guess they can fix any software bugs on the fly as well. Great architecture. i love the fact they can update the software when they need to. Great idea to change the software with what it needs as various stages in the mission. Doign it over this distance is amasing.

THE Mars rover Curiosity has survived a digital "brain transplant" to round off a successful first week on the red planet.

Over the past four days NASA engineers transmitted data to Curiosity to convert its software from flight mode to surface ready.

“It came off pretty much without a hitch,” said the mission manager, Mike Watkins.

The rover is ready to explore and will begin roaming the planet's dusty surface in the next five days.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci ... z23cDPDESa

[AnimalMother]

So has the Cat killed Curiosity? Or is there no interesting data coming back from it as yet?

I expect it will take a while to find any stunning new data that the previous two rovers didn't get. At first it will probably gather much the same sort of stuff, but in greater detail.

At least the nearby landscape looks more interesting than all the flat stuff we saw last time.

[AnimalMother]

It's ready to go out and explore. Wow, they did a complete download of a new program to replace the logic needed for the space travel and landing part of the mission.

Now it just needs to download some pirated driving music to set the mood for the journey.

[Super Nova]

NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 10:30 a.m. PDT (1:30 p.m. EDT) on Friday, Aug. 17. Visuals will be available here at the start of the event.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/t ... index.html

[Super Nova]

Looks like it's going to go and have a little look at at somethin interesting before it heads off to find water.

The US space agency NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will make a wide detour to explore a "cool" geographical hot spot on Mars, scientists said on Friday.

The scientists also reported they found temperatures in the Red Planet's Gale Crater to be just above freezing, the first monitoring of Mars temperatures in three decades.

Before driving to its destination at Mount Sharp, which may contain traces of water, Curiosity will head in the opposite direction, to a spot NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has dubbed Glenelg.

The Pasadena lab said the geologically-rich area marks the intersection of three kinds of terrain 1640 feet (500 metres) from the rover's landing site.

A light-colored patch of terrain in the region indicates to scientists "a kind of bedrock suitable for eventual drilling by Curiosity."
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci ... z244JwPCAj

[Black Orchid]

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This is what the Earth looks like from Mars

For some reason I always have trouble posting images

[Rorschach]

So that's Jarsoom from Barsoom eh...
Sure is an outta the way place. Might just be far enough away to get some peace.