Mars Curiosity Landing, NASA doing awesome shit ITT

[Qwert]

First color Panorama:

[elmicker]

The sun is also white, not yellow.

it's actually blue tbh

Our sun is a G2V star(the V means it's a main sequence star and generates energy via fusion), meaning it is YELLOW.

blue m8

[Qwert]

The sun is also white, not yellow.

it's actually blue tbh

Our sun is a G2V star(the V means it's a main sequence star and generates energy via fusion), meaning it is YELLOW.

blue m8

Color is subjective, so it is more complicated than that m8.

[elmicker]

Colour isn't subjective at all. If you can survey the whole spectrum, and we can, you can determine exactly what the dominant emission is, and it's blue.

[Tarminic]

Today I got to educate a generally good-natured but ignorant facebook friend on why this kind of thing is important for humanity. Described a bunch of awesome things about several of Jupiter's moons and why we should find out more about them. I think I may have actually converted someone to nerddom.

[Doomed Predator]

Only stars that can be considered blue are either B-type (10.000K - 30.000K surface temperature) and O-type (30.000K - 52.000K surface temperature). The sun has a surface temperature of 5772K, meaning it falls into the G-type group (5.300K - 6.000K surface temperature). While I can see how people might argue if our sun is white or yellow I can't comprehend how someone would say it's blue.

[sarabando]

our sun is green and anyone claiming otherwise shall be marked as a heretic and burnt at the steakhouse

[Idara]

SHEEPLE ARGUING ABOUT THE COLOUR OF THE SUN, THE ONLY STAR WE SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT IS THE NEMESIS STAR

[Tellenta]

You're all idiots the sun is pink. I have proof.

[Zeekar]

I can tell its a fake since the sun isnt smiling.

[Daco]

I can tell its a fake since the sun isnt smiling.

And doesn't have glasses.

[erichkknaar]

This wouldn't have happened if the sun had a gun.

[Jurskjeld]

I can tell its a fake since the sun isnt smiling.

[Doomed Predator]

I can tell its a fake since the sun isnt smiling.

And doesn't have glasses.

And isn't in the top right corner

[Idara]

I can tell its a fake since the sun isnt smiling.

Fix'd for moar.

[Don Pellegrino]

[Tellenta]

Well that went over better than I expected. On a more on topic note, does NASA have a good image dump site for their rovers or do I have to wait for a press release?

[super7]

first colour panoramic has just been released.

  Spoiler:

Nasa usually post lots of pics and info almost straight away. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ms...l20120809.html

[Warpath]

Another site for images is here

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/

[Smuggo]

Well that went over better than I expected. On a more on topic note, does NASA have a good image dump site for their rovers or do I have to wait for a press release?

This seems to have all the pics it has sent back so far along with other stuff from when they were checking out the landing site etc... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ms...dexEvents.html