Rover getting a software update.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...50M_miles_away
Rover getting a software update.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...50M_miles_away
Wow, 100 people just working on the rover's daily commands. That's one hell of an IT departmentOriginally Posted by Warpath
This seems to be a dump with raw images coming in from the various cameras. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/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
Massive high-res mosaic from the mast cam, spoilered for huge.
Spoiler:
And link to see it properly, http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia1...aller-full.jpg
The 4 grey circles in that panorama are the blast zones from the sky crane rockets.
I love how it looks just like some desert on Earth.
But it's fucking on another planet, 200 million kilometres away.
God I really hope they will have the balls into hilly terrain. Whole point of landing in that crater were those mountains in middle and the fact that they've seen parts with open layers from orbit; so I guess they will have to drive there eventually.
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This really is fucking badass. I mean, you can look at it and go 'Its just some rocks and dirt' - but its rocks and dirt no one has ever seen (from earth) before! So fucking cool.
That's the most interesting miserable ball of rock and dirt ever. It looks positively awful... and yet not.
from the previous rover
Huh, the suns smaller. I mean that makes sense, its further away like... but yeah. Only occurred to me when I saw it
But seems to small for me, maybe some atmosphere thing. Btw if you take a picture of the moon or the sun close to the horizon on earth it will look smaller then it seems with your eyes.
Last edited by Miep; August 13 2012 at 06:16:55 AM.
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No, it looks larger on the horizon.
Edit: you seem to be referencing the same thing but I don't see how looking at a picture will give a different result to looking at the direct image from the same perspective.
Last edited by Daneel Trevize; August 13 2012 at 11:41:40 AM.
Mercury : average distance 58 million km (36 million miles)
Minimum Distance from Sun: 46.0 million km (28.6 million miles)
Maximum Distance from Sun: 69.8 million km (43.4 million miles)
Venus : average distance 108 million km (67 million miles)
Minimum Distance from Sun: 108 million km (67 million miles)
Maximum Distance from Sun: 109 million km (68 million miles)
Earth : average distance 149.6 million km (93 million miles)
Minimum Distance from Sun: 146 million km (91 million miles)
Maximum Distance from Sun: 152 million km (94.5 million miles)
Mars : average distance 228 million km (142 million miles)
Minimum Distance from Sun: 205 million km (128 million miles)
Maximum Distance from Sun: 249 million km (155 million miles)
Last edited by lubica; August 13 2012 at 11:42:16 AM.
wheres the goddamn martians
It's a wet dream Frug.
Rocks! Rocks everywhere!
They should've put a camera on a stilt up behind the rover so we could watch it in 3rd person.
They need to build and launch a mini-rover to watch the mars rover. Mars's first paparazzi rover.
It's depressing, a rover on mars 300m km away takes better pics than me on earth
Hey, I just met you,
and this is crazy
but here's my number,
so call me, maybe?
Well if you spent $2.5 billion on photography equipment you'd probably improve.It's depressing, a rover on mars 300m km away takes better pics than me on earth
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