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#160
by
Dappa
on 09 Aug, 2012 18:05
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Curiosity Rover @MarsCuriosity
Gale Crater Vista, in Glorious Color! Get a low-res preview of the 360-panorama to come [pic]
http://1.usa.gov/MCkZ2x #MSL
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#161
by
Stardust9906
on 09 Aug, 2012 18:09
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More images from the briefing
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#162
by
Stardust9906
on 09 Aug, 2012 18:14
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#163
by
Stardust9906
on 09 Aug, 2012 18:17
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#164
by
Star One
on 09 Aug, 2012 20:25
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Great images, you can really see where the Sky Crane has dug down into the bedrock with its rocket boosters in them.
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#165
by
robertross
on 09 Aug, 2012 20:54
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Predicted touchdown was 0.6 seconds off from actual touchdown. 
Phenomenal!
Great work on the presser guys.
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#166
by
jnc
on 09 Aug, 2012 20:55
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Phenominal!
I take it the mis-spelling there was deliberate? (Nice one, if so!)
Noel
PS: Argh! You changed it! So it was an accident after all? I thought it was a play on the 'everything nominal' NASA jargon. It was really cute/clever!
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#167
by
iamlucky13
on 09 Aug, 2012 21:56
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Doug Ellison promoting http://eyes.nasa.gov/
That's awesome. If R2D2 has inappropriate dreams, that website is what they look like.
I'm serious, if anybody on NSF does not check this out, Optimus Prime will personally come to your house and revoke your nerd badge.
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#168
by
BrightLight
on 09 Aug, 2012 22:35
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I wonder what the blue stuff is - maybe algae
did i write that - opps, follow the water...
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#169
by
clongton
on 10 Aug, 2012 01:56
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Dust on the deck
I totally love the pictures and panoramas, but I'm really surprised that the designers didn't include *some* kind of directed blower to remove accumulating dust on occasion. It's not like we haven't had to deal with Martian dust before. Everybody knows it *can* be a problem. And Curiosity, being nuclear powered, is not lacking in electrical ability to power the device. The last lander had to depend on being hit by a Martian dust devil to clear the solar panels for crying out loud. After spending all that money and expending all that time, let's not leave our landers at the whim of Martian weather to remain operational. I really don't want to read on here in a year or 2 that a perfectly good rover has become useless because of accumulating dust. Future lander developers, please take note.
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#170
by
Jim
on 10 Aug, 2012 02:06
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Dust on the deck
I totally love the pictures and panoramas, but I'm really surprised that the designers didn't include *some* kind of directed blower to remove accumulating dust on occasion. It's not like we haven't had to deal with Martian dust before. Everybody knows it *can* be a problem. And Curiosity, being nuclear powered, is not lacking in electrical ability to power the device. The last lander had to depend on being hit by a Martian dust devil to clear the solar panels for crying out loud. After spending all that money and expending all that time, let's not leave our landers at the whim of Martian weather to remain operational. I really don't want to read on here in a year or 2 that a perfectly good rover has become useless because of accumulating dust. Future lander developers, please take note.
Because it is not problem
It is not an issue for MSL and not worth the weight. MSL is designed for a 2 years mission.
It also was not an issue for MER, they were only designed for 90 day missions.
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#171
by
thomson
on 10 Aug, 2012 02:11
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I've missed yesterday daily press conference. Are they archived somewhere? I tied to find them on mars.jpl.nasa.gov, but they are not there in multimedia nor news sections.
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#172
by
rdale
on 10 Aug, 2012 02:19
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YouTube and John44. Links in each daily thread.
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#173
by
robertross
on 10 Aug, 2012 02:27
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#174
by
Nathan
on 10 Aug, 2012 09:09
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#175
by
ugordan
on 10 Aug, 2012 09:30
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No, there isn't, they just haven't posted any sol 3 images there. It's been obvious from sol 1 or 2 that the MARDI and Mastcam images show up in the press conferences before they hit the raw page. The color panorama released yesterday in particular was downlinked sol 3 so there's no problem with the rover.
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#176
by
Svetoslav
on 10 Aug, 2012 09:37
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Does it mean that the Curiosity team will follow a different policy than Spirit, Oppy and Phoenix about how they handle the data? It would be a great disappointment if this is the case.
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#177
by
jumpjack
on 10 Aug, 2012 10:25
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Curiosity Rover @MarsCuriosity
Area 51? No, Quad 51 is where I landed on Mars. Here's a map of Gale crater. (PS - I come in peace) #MSL http://twitpic.com/ahdtkg
I want to go there:
Where do I find the hires version?
Keith Cowling > Doug Ellison > Augmented Reality apps for iPhone on the way (?).
Here?
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mobile/info/
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#178
by
ugordan
on 10 Aug, 2012 11:17
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Does it mean that the Curiosity team will follow a different policy than Spirit, Oppy and Phoenix about how they handle the data? It would be a great disappointment if this is the case.
Too early to tell. I'm still willing to chalk this up to the raw page not being their number one priority right now. Although to be frank, the raw page looks like something that was cobbled up at the last minute and yet they had months if not years to lay the groundwork for it.
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#179
by
Svetoslav
on 10 Aug, 2012 11:19
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Oh yeah. I had some trouble with downloading raw photos initially.
I would personally be happy even with regularly given Engineering camera images only, but pancam frames would be nice.
