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NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby dagon on Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:26 am

If you found the two rovers Spirit and Opportunity interesting then this new fellow is going to be an early Christmas gift.
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/
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Re: NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby xenopeek on Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:40 am

I'll be following the landing tomorrow morning. Thanks for the link.
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Re: NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby Habitual on Sun Aug 05, 2012 11:03 am

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Re: NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby xenopeek on Sun Aug 05, 2012 11:50 am

The NASA TV link works fine: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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Re: NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby anomalous_daemon on Sun Aug 05, 2012 3:14 pm

You can also watch the Mars landing with vlc if you have rtmpdump and vlc installed. I have moved my tutorial to the tutorials section, as I thought it would be better there. See viewtopic.php?f=42&t=109449
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Re: NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby wyrdoak on Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:54 am

One of the first images from the Curiosity that landed about an hour and a half ago.:)
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Re: NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby dagon on Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:03 am

:lol:
Inevitably, sooner or later, that is where it's going to end.

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Re: NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby tdockery97 on Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:55 am

Watched it on NASA TV. Very cool. I got a chuckle at how nervous that room full of engineers at JPL looked. :lol:
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Re: NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby wyrdoak on Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:24 am

If I could have, I would have put that picture up on the screen release some of that tension in the room. :lol: But it really would have been hard for if I were there, with all the problems they have been having all these years, ALL personal data devices would have been band within 1 mile of the building. :P From MP3 players, cell phones and even vinyl records. :D Just to be safe even chipped car keys and even credit cards . That's a lot of work for a lot of years, now if it can just pass the health check coming up.
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Re: NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby BubbaBlues on Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:45 pm

It was awesome. But I'm surprised it made it past the TSA. 8)
If idiots could fly this would be a freakin' airport! :)
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Re: NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

Postby /dev/urandom on Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:46 pm

Habitual wrote:Unsupported platform?

I'd bet you can install NetBSD on it.
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