NASA - MSL landing on Mars! (Science)

[dagon]

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/

[xenopeek]

I'll be following the landing tomorrow morning. Thanks for the link.

[Habitual]

Unsupported platform?

[xenopeek]

The NASA TV link works fine: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

[anomalous_daemon]

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

[wyrdoak]

One of the first images from the Curiosity that landed about an hour and a half ago.

73830_493890106018_7988375_n.jpg (76.87 KiB) Viewed 1188 times

[dagon]

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

[tdockery97]

Watched it on NASA TV. Very cool. I got a chuckle at how nervous that room full of engineers at JPL looked.

[wyrdoak]

If I could have, I would have put that picture up on the screen release some of that tension in the room. 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. From MP3 players, cell phones and even vinyl records. 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.

[BubbaBlues]

It was awesome. But I'm surprised it made it past the TSA.

[/dev/urandom]

Unsupported platform?

I'd bet you can install NetBSD on it.