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08-06-2012, 12:00 AM, (This post was last modified: 08-06-2012, 12:17 AM by Miguel.)

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RE: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing

The NASA coverage is more like a television broadcast. It has an anchor.

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

Rover likes to talk smack.

Quote:Curiosity Rover ‏@MarsCuriosity

No photo or it didn't happen? Well lookee here, I'm casting a shadow on the ground in Mars' Gale crater #MSL pic.twitter.com/cj1zFJty

Quote:Curiosity Rover ‏@MarsCuriosity

It once was one small step... now it's six big wheels. Here's a look at one of them on the soil of Mars #MSL pic.twitter.com/uzO99NZz

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08-06-2012, 12:37 AM, (This post was last modified: 08-06-2012, 12:38 AM by john.)

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RE: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing

Rocket scientists celebrating
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08-06-2012, 01:01 AM, (This post was last modified: 08-06-2012, 01:02 AM by Miguel.)

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RE: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing

I've been trying to suggest this as a theme song. There are at least some bits that work.

Mars to Rover...

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08-06-2012, 11:04 AM, (This post was last modified: 08-06-2012, 11:29 AM by Miguel.)

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RE: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing

Orbiter took a picture of the rover parachuting to Mars.

[Image: NASA%20HiRise%20captures%20rover.jpg]

----------------------------------------- notice the people ^^

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08-07-2012, 11:02 PM,

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08-08-2012, 03:41 PM, (This post was last modified: 08-08-2012, 04:11 PM by john.)

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^^ Indeed, LD. The modern world.

It is impressive in so many ways to have a satellite that orbits Mars snap a photo of another craft in the process of landing.

This panorama is from one of the existing Rovers but it's is a cool look at the Martian landscape (Add: this is made from old images -- not from the Curiosity rover):
http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

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08-08-2012, 03:53 PM, (This post was last modified: 08-08-2012, 03:53 PM by LovinDaHaley.)

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LOL ~ Wow Dr. J, that's quite an impressive Martian Mall we have happening there on the surface already. Is it live or a memory recall implant? Just another few days and a trip to Mars will be a vacation option.

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08-08-2012, 04:01 PM, (This post was last modified: 08-08-2012, 04:14 PM by john.)

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RE: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing

Heat shield falling away from the descending Curiosity Rover (inside surface).

[Image: 674919main_pia16021-946.jpg]

The panorama is several years old - just showed up on a search.

But here is some stop-motion video taken by the Curiosity rover as it descended:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogall...=149974611

View from the Curiosity rover.
[Image: 674893main_pia16013-43_428-321.jpg]