Mars Science Laboratory Mission: Curiosity
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- dbloc0
live now.
- GeorgesII0
So when are we supposed to get the first color pictures??
- Akagiyama0
- looks a little......windycruddlebub
- dust on the camera cover - won't be cleared for a weekhansglib
- yeahhhgeorgesIII
- they forgot to build the windshield wipers.dirtydesign
- georgesIII0
That is pretty cool,
http://www.slashgear.com/curiosi…
- kalkal0
Good lord, I know they want to be careful with this thing but it's fucking slow.
- dbloc0
- Oreo likes science!?! I like science! I should buy their cookies!!!sikma
- Sikma has been advertised topig
- who did the copywriting on that concept?TheBlueOne
- Cigarette company says what?i_monk
- georgesIII0
- That shit craypig
- awesomecruddlebub
- There's a giant mechanical spider behind the rover? 'cause that's what I'm seeing here.TheBlueOne
- instagram filter?dbloc
- lots of free parking...ghandolf
- lol @ dbloc. MarsLenspig
- Wall-E?OSFA
- CygnusZero40
- Lol, "This isn't all bad, I only weigh 380 pounds here."CygnusZero4
- looolsrhadden
- Lol @ George Lucaspig
- lolprophetone
- I love this!!
TheGreatGlorpo
- Projectile0
http://panoramas.dk/mars/greeley…
This is clearly another fake out like the moon landing, except this time instead of a studio they just sent the thing to a desert in Peru!
- scarabin0
- mars, you're drunk, your solar system only has one sunalbums
- lens refraction or Phobos/Deimos?albums
- yeah, just kidding http://goo.gl/8u1B5scarabin
- could be the moons, yeahscarabin
- http://cadfael.tv/im…prophetone
- _niko0
i predict that we'll see some martian animal scurry by the camera.
- in every gif version...for sure!vivid
- http://i.imgur.com/G…albums
- hoho @ the cartoon.mikotondria3
- ghandolf0
NASA's Curiosity rover is almost fully reprogrammed for its two-year science mission on Mars, and mission managers say it should be ready to take its first short drive in about a week. The software for science operations, known as R10, has already been installed successfully on the rover's primary computer and is currently managing the rover's functions. All that remained was to finish installing the same software on the backup computer.The software switchover called for removing the thousands of lines of code that were required for managing Curiosity's flight from Earth to Mars, as well as the instructions for the entry, descent and landing sequence known as the "seven minutes of terror." The R10 software package instead provides Curiosity with full use of its autonomous driving system and all the tools on its robotic arm. Curiosity's 4 gigabytes of data storage capacity wasn't enough to hold the entire software suite in its brain simultaneously.
- This color image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows an area excavated by the blast of the descent stage rocket engines.ghandolf
- Cool. Rocks. Bro.CygnusZero4
- Curiosity's 4GBs of data storage capacity wasn't enough - (should've used a larger USB stick!)ghandolf
- rocks! on mars!sine
- 4 Gigas?!?!? my phone haz more than thatCALLES
- Aye but pictures of your dick only take up a couple of hundred Kb, Calles.detritus