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    On August 5th, Curiosity hits Mars

    November 26th, 2011, (my birthday ) we launched an Atlas V rocket with the robotic rover Curiosity which will, and to quote, 'begin a two-year study of whether the landing vicinity ever offered an environment favorable for microbial life'.

    It will be landing inside of Gale Crater, within the projected black circle shown in the picture below. It will be operational for 2 years collecting data through ten different instruments.



    The video of the landing sequence.

    http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/video...a_id=146903741

    Human to rover size comparison. Curiosity is the rover the size of one of our Jeeps.



    Last edited by Buffalo Phil; 06-24-2012, 02:08 PM.
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    Alien invasion August 7th
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      Bumping this for those who care, NASA will be broadcasting the landing live in Times Square, I'll be tuning in.

      Technically, for us East Coasters, the rover will (hopefully) land on Mars August 6th.
      Last edited by Buffalo Phil; 08-01-2012, 12:12 AM.
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        nice!!!
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          Originally posted by Buffalo Phil View Post
          Bumping this for those who care, NASA will be broadcasting the landing live in Times Square, I'll be tuning in.
          http://www.examiner.com/article/mars...t-times-square

          kinda wanna go

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          • #6
            what's mars?
            I drive a Datsun

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            • #7
              It kinda makes me miss NASA
              Don't Panic

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Calabrate2 View Post
                It kinda makes me miss NASA
                NASA still exists...

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                  NASA

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                      All ofthat video was Good right up to the point that the rober is being controled by rockets. At 200mph those rockets are going to kick on and that thing is going to be knuckle ball city. What do you bet that rover and do hands climb.
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                        until they fuck up which units of measure they're using again and the thing eats shit like the last one.
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                          Originally posted by Carlleen View Post
                          All ofthat video was Good right up to the point that the rober is being controled by rockets. At 200mph those rockets are going to kick on and that thing is going to be knuckle ball city. What do you bet that rover and do hands climb.
                          Yeah, well, it's either going to land on Mars, or like the topic title state, it'll just fucking hit Mars.


                          I really hope it just fucking lands, but the whole sky crane thing has me irked.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Buffalo Phil View Post
                            or like the topic title state, it'll just fucking hit Mars.
                            miscalculations are awesome

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                              Happening tonight guys, tune in!!
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