Good NASA JPL PR vid (MSL [Curiosity])

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqdoXwLBT8&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syA7ml64zY4&feature=plcp

Not bad for a PR piece.

 

[Grey Havoc]

A bit of a hitch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18861463

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nasa-rover-closing-mars-hunt-life-clues-201457235.html

 

[Grey Havoc]

On a side note: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/shatner-wheaton-msl/

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/instruments-mars-rover/


EDIT: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/how-to-watch-rover/

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/stunning-images-of-the-curiosity-rovers-martian-playground/

http://www.space.com/16385-curiosity-rover-mars-science-laboratory.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9453604/Nasas-Curiosity-rover-on-course-for-successful-landing.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19078494

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/04/us/mars-rover-scott-maxwell/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

 

[Grey Havoc]

[IMAGE CREDIT: BBC NEWS/NASA]​

• (A) Curiosity will trundle around its landing site looking for interesting rock features to study. Its top speed is about 4cm/s
• (B) This mission has 17 cameras. They will identify particular targets, and a laser will zap those rocks to probe their chemistry
• (C) If the signal is significant, Curiosity will swing over instruments on its arm for close-up investigation. These include a microscope
• (D) Samples drilled from rock, or scooped from the soil, can be delivered to two hi-tech analysis labs inside the rover body
• (E) The results are sent to Earth through antennas on the rover deck. Return commands tell the rover where it should drive next

 

[Grey Havoc]

TOUCHDOWN.

[IMAGE CREDIT: NASA]​

NASA Fact Sheet

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19144464

http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1&hpt=hp_c1

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9454930/Nasa-Mars-Landing-live-blog.html


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/images/first_images_mars.html

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

http://www.space.com/16868-mars-rover-landing-curiosity-events-webcasts.html

 

[Michel Van]

Yppieeeee


JPL is going ballistic on happiness
and future for more bigger Mars lander probe has just began...
congratulations to JPL, Lockheed Martin and there subcontractors !

p.s.
and with Big i mean really big, look size of the new Rover

 

[Grey Havoc]

Courtesy of NASA, one of the first high rez images from Gale Crater:

"Curiosity's landing site is beginning to come into focus," said John Grotzinger, project manager of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "In the image, we are looking to the northwest. What you see on the horizon is the rim of Gale Crater. In the foreground, you can see a gravel field. The question is, where does this gravel come from? It is the first of what will be many scientific questions to come from our new home on Mars."

While the image is twice as big in pixel size as the first images beamed down from the rover, they are only half the size of full-resolution Hazcam images. During future mission operations, these images will be used by the mission's navigators and rover drivers to help plan the vehicle's next drive. Other cameras aboard Curiosity, with color capability and much higher resolution, are expected to be sent back to Earth over the next several days.

NASA

 

[Grey Havoc]

[IMAGE CREDIT: NASA]​

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-indexEvents.html

Landing Press Kit (PDF, 5.4 Mb)

Launch Press Kit (PDF, 5.2 Mb)

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.space.com/16946-mars-rover-landing-seen-from-space.html

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collection_id=14661&media_id=149974611​

The best image yet of Curiosity's ultimate quarry - the 5.5km-high Mount Sharp
(Via BBC News)​

 

[Grey Havoc]

The distant hills are part of the rim of Gale Crater. Note also the two dark circular patches in the foreground. These are scour marks left by Curiosity’s rocket-powered descent crane
(NASA via BBC News)​

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19186237​

 

[LowObservable]

Has anyone ever suggested that the landing system was inspired in any way by the Russians' use of retro-rocket/chute systems to land armored vehicles?

See here, 39:00 onwards...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1lJccWXQQg

Not to dismiss anyone's achievements, but it would be an interesting connection.

 

[Byeman]

Has anyone ever suggested that the landing system was inspired in any way by the Russians' use of retro-rocket/chute systems to land armored vehicles?

See here, 39:00 onwards...

You mean this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZRXwRybb1I

3:50 and on

 

[Grey Havoc]

In other Mars news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18770046

 

[Grey Havoc]

The rover put down on a flat spot inside a crater. The cliffs of the crater wall can be seen in the distance
[IMAGE CREDIT: NASA/BBC News]


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19219782​

 

[Grey Havoc]

Curiosity's brain transplant (Aviation Week [On Space blog])​

[IMAGE CREDIT: NASA/Aviation Week]​

 

[Grey Havoc]

Martian Computing Is Light on RAM, Heavy on Radiation Shielding (Wired.com)

 

[Grey Havoc]

The MRO image shows the terrain around the rover (blue dot) at its landing site within Gale Crater on Mars. The blue fans either side are rocket blast marks in the ground
[IMAGE CREDIT: NASA/BBC NEWS]​

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19262486​

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/nasa-patch/

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/mars-curiosity-rover-self-portraits/

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/curiosity-roves-shoot-lasers/

 

[Grey Havoc]

Curiosity’s Secrets: The Hidden Features of NASA’s Mars Rover (Wired.com)

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19296006 B)

 

[Arjen]

New Mars Curiosity Landscape Images Surprise Scientists

Image shows strata!

A mosaic of high-definition images of Mount Sharp, the central peak dominating the landing site at Gale Crater, reveals tilted strata never before seen on Mars. The strata dip downwards at an angle close to that of the slope of the foothills of the 18,000-ft. tall mountain within which they are formed.

“The cool thing is the cameras have discovered something we were unaware of,” says mission chief scientist John Grotzinger. “This thing jumped out at us as being very different to what we expected,” he adds. Lying in the low-lying foothills beyond the dune field between the rover and the base of Mount Sharp, the inclined layers are a “spectacular feature” that could not be seen from orbit.
NASA is not yet willing to speculate in detail on the mechanics of the processes which created the landform. On earth such features are typically formed by tectonic, volcanic, sub-aqueous or wind-driven processes. The JPL team plans to use Curiosity’s stereoscopic mast cameras (Mastcam) to measure the precise angle of the dipping strata after a short 10-meter drive scheduled for Aug. 28, says Grotzinger. The new images were collected by the rover’s 100-millimeter telephoto lens and 34mm wide-angle lens.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Nasa's Curiosity rover 'sniffs' Martian air (BBC News)

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/curiosity-hirise-tracks/

 

[Grey Havoc]

Curiosity seems to have found a curiosity: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/9/3969648/curiosity-rover-spots-strange-hunk-of-metal-on-mars

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.space.com/19875-mars-rover-curiosity-drill-discoveries.html

http://www.space.com/19884-mars-rover-curiosity-drill-sample.html

 

[yasotay]

Curiosity seems to have found a curiosity: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/9/3969648/curiosity-rover-spots-strange-hunk-of-metal-on-mars

Transformers!! I knew it!

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112794664/nasa-mars-curiosity-swaps-computers-030113/

 

[Grey Havoc]

Via Gizmodo: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-080

 

[Grey Havoc]

Curiosity Rover Put to Sleep to Wait Out Solar Storm (Wired.com)

 

[circle-5]

Good Mars panorama (1.3 billion pixels)

 

[Grey Havoc]

Going somewhat OT for a minute: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-deep-freeze-as-cold-as-uninhabited-planet-1.2479967

According to the Curiosity Rover, Mars reached a maximum temperature of -29 C on Tuesday, a temperature Winnipeg only reached shortly before 3 p.m.

The deep freeze over much of Southern Manitoba prompted extreme wind chill warnings in the area and most of the north.

In Winnipeg, the daytime high temperature for Tuesday was only expected to reach –31 C, but the windchill made it feel more like –40 to –50. That means exposed skin can freeze in less than five minutes.

On Monday, it got as warm as –28 C.

In the northern half of the province, in places like Thompson, Nelson House, Lynn Lake, Leaf Rapids and Churchill, the wind chills on Tuesday made it feel like –48 to –53.

The entire province was under an extreme wind chill warning on Monday, but it was later lifted in the central portion of Manitoba as well as the southwest and southeast corners.

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26032673