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#140 by racshot65 on 27 Jun, 2012 12:10
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Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing
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#141 by racshot65 on 27 Jun, 2012 12:33
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Another nice find from UMSF.com
Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent, and Landing System Overview
http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/41708/1/08-0255.pdf -
#142 by Alexsander on 27 Jun, 2012 12:58
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Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-188
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#143 by racshot65 on 03 Jul, 2012 09:54
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Fireworks Over Mars: The Spirit of 76 Pyrotechnics
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#144 by catdlr on 04 Jul, 2012 01:40
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Martian Dune Buggy
Published on Jul 3, 2012 by JPLnews
NASA engineers take the Curiosity test rover to California's Mojave desert to learn how to drive on Martian sand dunes.
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#145 by jacqmans on 11 Jul, 2012 20:20
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-128
NASA NEWS CONFERENCE TO PREVIEW AUGUST MARS ROVER LANDING
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday,
July 16, to discuss the upcoming August landing of the most advanced
robot ever sent to another world. A new public-engagement
collaboration based on the mission also will be debuted.
The event for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft will be
held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St.
SW, Washington. The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television
and streamed on the agency's website.
MSL will deliver Curiosity to Mars at approximately 1:31 a.m. EDT Aug.
6. The rover, carrying laboratory instruments to analyze samples of
rocks, soil and atmosphere, will investigate whether Mars has ever
offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.
Participants will be:
-- Doug McCuistion, director, Mars Exploration Program, NASA
Headquarters
-- Michael Meyer, lead scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA
Headquarters
-- John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Pete Theisinger, MSL project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena
-- Jeff Norris, manager, planning and execution systems, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
Media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA
centers or by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must
contact Steve Cole at 202-358-0918 or [email protected] by 10
a.m. July 16.
For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
To view a Jet Propulsion Laboratory live stream with a moderated chat,
visit:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl
For more information about the mission and to view or submit events
surrounding the landing, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mars
The public can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at:
http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity
and
http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity
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#146 by Jeff Lerner on 12 Jul, 2012 14:25
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FWIW, just read on UMSF that Mars Odyssey in safe mode again...2nd time this has happened over the last couple of weeks...MSL is intended to use Odyssey for communications to/from Earth...
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=7318&view=findpost&p=185658 -
#147 by dsmillman on 12 Jul, 2012 14:52
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FWIW, just read on UMSF that Mars Odyssey in safe mode again...2nd time this has happened over the last couple of weeks...MSL is intended to use Odyssey for communications to/from Earth...
MRO is prime for relaying MSL communications to Earth. Odyssey is supposed to provide some additional capacity and of course redundancy.
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=7318&view=findpost&p=185658 -
#148 by TheFallen on 12 Jul, 2012 16:33
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Neat video:
Very, very cool video! The EDL sequence is dramatic to begin with. Finally, a video professionally produced which shows just how spectacular this sequence is going to be.
Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror
This was actually taken from a 30-minute video shown at the JPL Open House last month. I like how the full video borrowed the music score for "Inception"
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#149 by dsmillman on 16 Jul, 2012 18:52
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The MSL Landing Press Kit is now available at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/MSLLanding.pdf
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#150 by Chris Bergin on 16 Jul, 2012 20:32
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Free Xbox360 MSL landing game! Getting this downloaded for sure!
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Mars-Rover-Landing/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258480836 -
#151 by collectSPACE on 16 Jul, 2012 20:38
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Here's a video clip from today's press conference showing Danielle Roosa, granddaughter of Apollo 14 command module pilot Stu Roosa, demonstrating the Xbox game:
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#152 by John44 on 16 Jul, 2012 20:47
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NASA Science News Conference - MSL "Landing-Minus-30"
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7709 -
#153 by catdlr on 18 Jul, 2012 20:07
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NASA | The Mars Chamber
Published on Jul 18, 2012 by NASAexplorer
The Mars chamber is a box--about the size of a refrigerator--that re-creates the temperatures, pressures, and atmosphere of the Martian surface, essentially creating a Mars environment on Earth!
Scientists and engineers use this chamber to test experiments on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite--a fully functioning chemistry lab about the Curiosity Mars rover.
By re-creating Mars on Earth and using an exact duplicate of SAM, scientists can "pre-run" experiments on SAM to make sure everything will work properly on the Mars rover. Learn more about the Mars chamber by watching this video!
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#154 by corrodedNut on 25 Jul, 2012 04:37
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Mars Odyssey is back in action, and just in time for MSL's landing:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/odyssey/odyssey20120724.html
"Mars Orbiter Repositioned to Phone Home Mars Landing
NASA reported during a July 16 news conference that Odyssey, which originally was planned to provide a near-real-time communication link with Curiosity, had entered safe mode July 11. This situation would have affected communication operations, but not the rover's landing. Without a repositioning maneuver, Odyssey would have arrived over the landing area about two minutes after Curiosity landed."
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#155 by bolun on 25 Jul, 2012 17:02
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http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMJBLPXV4H_index_0.htmlQuote
Mars Express to record and relay signals from NASA
On 6 August, Mars Express will turn and start listening at 05:10. Confirmation of touchdown is expected directly via Odyssey at 05:31, and Mars Express will record MSL signal data between 05:10 and 05:38 (all times GMT and subject to change).
Once complete, Mars Express will slew again to point toward Earth and transmit the recorded data to ESOC via the Agency’s 35 m-diameter deep-space antenna in New Norcia, Australia.
The data are expected around 06:40 GMT and will be immediately transmitted to NASA.
ESA's stations on standby
ESA’s station network will also directly support the landing, standing by as ‘hot back-up’ to NASA’s own deep-space network to receive data from 250 million km.
“NASA supported the arrival of Mars Express at Mars in 2003, and, in the past few years, we have relayed data from the rovers Spirit and Opportunity,” says ESA’s Manfred Warhaut, Head of Mission Operations.
“Mars Express also tracked the descent of NASA’s Phoenix lander in 2008 and we routinely share our deep space networks.
“Technical and scientific cooperation at Mars between ESA and NASA is a long-standing and mutually beneficial activity that helps us both to reduce risk and increase the return of scientific results.”
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#156 by Star One on 25 Jul, 2012 19:50
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MSL to double as Martian weather station.
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#157 by Bogeyman on 28 Jul, 2012 09:15
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Are there any plans for Curiosity to investigate the SkyCrane crash site? Might be interesting to see what happened to it, plus the skly crane will dig up some soil from the impact, revealing material underneath the top soil. Might be of scientific interest?
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#158 by ugordan on 28 Jul, 2012 11:05
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IIRC, they want to avoid the descent stage crash site due to contamination hazard to MSL instruments.
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#159 by Rocket Science on 28 Jul, 2012 11:15
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I’m looking forward to this coming close on the heels of the Viking Lander’s 36th anniversary…
