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#1 2012-08-06 14:40:49

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I watched the Mars rover

Today, NASA landed a new rover on Mars, Curiosity. It's the first rover to have a designated landing spot (which they hit)!
It was pretty cool watching it, or at least NASA's video simulation, land. It started sending back data immediately, we could see pictures pop up on their screens.

I just hope there weren't any cats on Mars.  wink

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#2 2012-08-06 14:46:58

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

Cool  yikes
My dad was talking about it, but I didn't see it land or anything

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#3 2012-08-06 16:30:55

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

For me it was yesterday.  tongue
I saw it live.
Classic.

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#4 2012-08-06 16:52:25

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

This is a big moment for us. No, we haven't touched the surface of Mars using our own hands, but I think what's important is that we're exploring, and we're on track. It brings joy to me, seeing us explore the universe, and gather data that will be helpful in the future.

Very cool.  big_smile

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#5 2012-08-06 16:56:31

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

What? Wow, next year it'll be in the papers. 3rd world countries FTL.

Oh, and let's just hope it isn't a Mac.

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#6 2012-08-08 13:11:09

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

I watched it too, there's some new pictures up.

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#7 2012-08-08 13:50:07

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

I didn't see it, I'll watch it on YouTube now though.

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#8 2012-08-08 14:22:22

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

Pretty cool, and everything was robotic. As explained by a flight engineer, it takes 14 minutes to transmit data between Mars and Earth at the speed of light. Therefore, any human reaction and control to Curiosity would be at least a 28 minute delay: 14 for the information to get to Earth, an unknown amount of time to troubleshoot the problem, and 14 minutes to get the data back to Curiosity. If you've ever had lag in a video game, think of that x1000.

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#9 2012-08-08 17:02:54

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

CheeseMunchy wrote:

For me it was yesterday.  tongue
I saw it live.
Classic.

You saw it live, 14 mintues delayed.

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#10 2012-08-08 18:43:25

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

Snowdrift wrote:

CheeseMunchy wrote:

For me it was yesterday.  tongue
I saw it live.
Classic.

You saw it live, 14 mintues delayed.

No, I didn't actually see it land, I only saw the team land it.

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#11 2012-08-08 18:53:04

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

Did anyone else see that Yahoo article about that mysterious blob in the photo that disappeared two hours later?  yikes

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#12 2012-08-08 19:13:56

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

Man I missed it!  sad

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#13 2012-08-08 19:50:12

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

It's interesting that around 90% of the computers that the experts used were Macs. Actually, they were given a choice between a PC, Mac or Linux. Check out these pics  smile

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http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/ … on-lab.jpg

But let's not get off track  tongue

I didn't see the landing, but I did try to find some articles about it on news websites, but couldn't find any  hmm

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello!  big_smile

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#14 2012-08-08 20:20:43

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

jji7skyline wrote:

It's interesting that around 90% of the computers that the experts used were Macs. Actually, they were given a choice between a PC, Mac or Linux. Check out these pics  smile

http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/ … -users.jpg

http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/ … on-lab.jpg

But let's not get off track  tongue

I didn't see the landing, but I did try to find some articles about it on news websites, but couldn't find any  hmm

If you could have the government pay for your computer, why wouldn't you take the more expensive, better-equipped one?  tongue

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#15 2012-08-08 20:22:47

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

scimonster wrote:

cats on Mars

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#16 2012-08-08 20:39:19

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

I watched them land the rover live.  smile

Apparently, my mom knew one of the people who helped with the mission.

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#17 2012-08-09 08:44:34

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Re: I watched the Mars rover

CheeseMunchy wrote:

Snowdrift wrote:

CheeseMunchy wrote:

For me it was yesterday.  tongue
I saw it live.
Classic.

You saw it live, 14 mintues delayed.

No, I didn't actually see it land, I only saw the team land it.

Ah yes.

Man they look happy

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