Curiosity

Jack Lynt

Jack Lynt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqdoXwLBT8&feature=player_embedded


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDBojlncss&feature=relmfu


Cosmic Log on NBCNews.com

Check out the slideshow. Love that capture and enhanced photo of Curiosity descending with its parachute (#9).
 
I can't wait for the first conspiracy nut to claim this was fake, a scam to steal money, and that the pictures were taken in the Mojave Desert.... I'll feel like a part of history.
 
wow... felt like i was there, only i was color-blind.


instead of google earth, we'll soon have google mars!
 
Zensteve said:
Already on it, but apparently not updated for Curiosity. You can search for Gale crater, mind you.

http://www.google.com/mars/
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Oh, trust me, I already have. I'm addicted to space stuff... sci-fi, and real.

Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Futurama... hell, I even watch that awful one-sided "Ancient Aliens" series on Netflix, just because the idea is cool.


And I spent like ten minutes slowly swiveling around, enjoying the view on that link.
 
mussonman said:
Oh, trust me, I already have. I'm addicted to space stuff... sci-fi, and real.

Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Futurama... hell, I even watch that awful one-sided "Ancient Aliens" series on Netflix, just because the idea is cool.


And I spent like ten minutes slowly swiveling around, enjoying the view on that link.
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Do you watch ancient aliens for the laughs as well? I like to imagine that somewhere on a far away planet, an alien with goofy hair is telling people humans built their stuff.
 
Solliz said:
Do you watch ancient aliens for the laughs as well? I like to imagine that somewhere on a far away planet, an alien with goofy hair is telling people humans built their stuff.
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Yes, but I also think it's a really interesting concept... I treat it like it's a fictional documentary, THEN it's cool
 
did anyone see the news report that says they found something but are keeping it a secret for now? I wanna know so badly!
 
I caught that too, mussonman! It's exciting...could be some bacteria or it could just be a rock that they're keeping secret to build suspense in folks like you and I! Either way, it works, and it's awesome.
 
JoshL said:
I caught that too, mussonman! It's exciting...could be some bacteria or it could just be a rock that they're keeping secret to build suspense in folks like you and I! Either way, it works, and it's awesome.
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If it isn't something that even the biggest skeptic would go "WHOA... how the hell did that get there?" then I'm suing NASA... I don't care if I win, it's the principle of the thing.
 
Interesting...

"Grotzinger says they recently put a soil sample in SAM, and the analysis shows something earthshaking. "This data is gonna be one for the history books." Grotzinger announced that they have scheduled Donald Trump to deliver the November surprise later this month on the 23rd."
 
Looks like nothing. Latest press release from NASA:

PASADENA, Calif. -- The next news conference about the NASA Mars rover Curiosity will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in San Francisco at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Rumors and speculation that there are major new findings from the mission at this early stage are incorrect. The news conference will be an update about first use of the rover's full array of analytical instruments to investigate a drift of sandy soil. One class of substances Curiosity is checking for is organic compounds -- carbon-containing chemicals that can be ingredients for life. At this point in the mission, the instruments on the rover have not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics.

The Mars Science Laboratory Project and its Curiosity rover are less than four months into a two-year prime mission to investigate whether conditions in Mars' Gale Crater may have been favorable for microbial life. Curiosity is exceeding all expectations for a new mission with all of the instruments and measurement systems performing well. This is spectacular for such a complex system, and one that is operated so far away on Mars by people here on planet Earth. The mission already has found an ancient riverbed on the Red Planet, and there is every expectation for remarkable discoveries still to come.
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