LIVE: MSL Curiosity Rover ENTRY, DESCENT, LANDING - Aug 5-6, 2012

• #320 by robertross on 06 Aug, 2012 05:53
• -0.6739 m/s touchdown speed
  
  horizontal velocity: 0.044365 m/s
  
  140.6 kg fuel remaining
  
  offset 4.37 deg
  
  navigated lat: -4.591817 deg, lon: 137.440247 deg
  
  2.279.....  (cut off)
• #321 by oiorionsbelt on 06 Aug, 2012 05:54
• Quote from: clongton on 06 Aug, 2012 05:51

  He just said we are the only country that has ever landed a lander on any other planet. He is wrong! The Russians landed on the moon and on Venus.
  

  The moon isn't a planet though 
• #322 by Jason1701 on 06 Aug, 2012 05:54
• Quote from: clongton on 06 Aug, 2012 05:53

  1.4 kg of fuel left onboard
  
  

  
  I heard it as 140.6 kg
• #323 by Kaputnik on 06 Aug, 2012 05:54
• 2.279km from target. Not bad!
• #324 by SpaceXSLS on 06 Aug, 2012 05:54
• Oh man CONGRATS CURIOSITY!
  
  Congrats NASA!!
  
  Congrats JPL!!!
  
  great day.
• #325 by robertross on 06 Aug, 2012 05:55
• Quote from: Jason1701 on 06 Aug, 2012 05:54

  Quote from: clongton on 06 Aug, 2012 05:53

  1.4 kg of fuel left onboard
  
  

  
  I heard it as 140.6 kg
  

  
  Okay, I guess I wasn't hearing things. Thanks for that confirmation
• #326 by savuporo on 06 Aug, 2012 05:55
• Quote from: oiorionsbelt on 06 Aug, 2012 05:54

  Quote from: clongton on 06 Aug, 2012 05:51

  He just said we are the only country that has ever landed a lander on any other planet. He is wrong! The Russians landed on the moon and on Venus.
  

  The moon isn't a planet though 
  

  Hygens was ESA. Titan isn't technically a planet though, either.
• #327 by Kaputnik on 06 Aug, 2012 05:55
• "A pretty good shot of being in the HiRISE image"
• #328 by FinalFrontier on 06 Aug, 2012 05:55
• The high res imagery

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• #329 by FinalFrontier on 06 Aug, 2012 05:56
• Sorry for stacking that three times was accidental but I like it that way so I will leave it that way
• #330 by majormajor42 on 06 Aug, 2012 05:56
• Way to go!
  
  The numbers are sounding pretty good. Soft landing!
• #331 by joek on 06 Aug, 2012 05:57
• Awsome!  Congratulations to all!
• #332 by Nascent Ascent on 06 Aug, 2012 05:57
• Looks like all the flight controllers have Apple MacBook Pros.
• #333 by Jim on 06 Aug, 2012 05:57
• This event was better than  any cargo spacecraft visiting a LEO space station.  ;-)
• #334 by JimO on 06 Aug, 2012 05:57
• Quote from: clongton on 06 Aug, 2012 05:51

  He just said we are the only country that has ever landed a lander on any other planet. He is wrong! The Russians landed on the moon and on Venus.
  

  
  And WE -- terrans -- have landed probes on Eros, Itokawa, and Titan, too.
• #335 by simonbp on 06 Aug, 2012 05:57
• Raw images:
  
  http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/
• #336 by AJA on 06 Aug, 2012 05:58
• Dynamics just said that they calculated that they have a pretty good chance of having been caught in a HiRISE image !!! That is fortuitously awesome. Remember http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images/hirise_parachute.jpg ?
• #337 by oiorionsbelt on 06 Aug, 2012 05:58
• Quote from: Jim on 06 Aug, 2012 05:57

  This event was better than  any cargo spacecraft visiting a LEO space station.  ;-)
  

  Totally agree!!
  
• #338 by Chris Bergin on 06 Aug, 2012 05:58
• Quote from: Jim on 06 Aug, 2012 05:57

  This event was better than  any cargo spacecraft visiting a LEO space station.  ;-)
  

  
  Heh. Congrats Jim!
• #339 by robertross on 06 Aug, 2012 05:58
• 1.56 amps
  
  bus: 32.18V  (93% of charge)
  
  1.57 amps
  
  32.2V
  
  (could not confirm data points, but I think those were of the battery bus)