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#500
by
TheFallen
on 24 Aug, 2012 01:13
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#501
by
Bubbinski
on 24 Aug, 2012 13:56
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Jumpjack, thanks for the synchronized video!
Where's the "like" button?
Took me back to landing night, to the nailbiting moments then the celebration.
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#502
by
rickyjames
on 24 Aug, 2012 15:40
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As far as I'm concerned, that one analysis was worth its weight in gold...
That makes it a fantastic instrument, probably worth far more than its weight in platinum....
Actually at the moment gold is worth more (around $1660 per ounce) than platinum (around $1540 per ounce). But the worth on Mars of Curiosity is $2,500,000,000 / (1982 pounds * 16 oz /lb) = $78,835 per ounce or around 48 times its worth on Earth if it were all made of solid gold.
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#503
by
pippin
on 24 Aug, 2012 16:05
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#504
by
Lee Jay
on 24 Aug, 2012 18:08
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Awesome. Though I'm waiting for a color panorama that actually includes the rover in it. Just saying
Have a look further up the thread for the one I linked. If you've got an iPad it's even stunningly interactive.
EDIT:
Here it is again:
http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2
You don't need an iPad. It's interactive on my Windows 7 PC just fine.
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#505
by
catdlr
on 24 Aug, 2012 19:29
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Advisory: 2012-258b Aug. 24, 2012
NASA Announces Aug. 27 Mars News Conference
The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-258b&cid=release_2012-258b PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will hold a televised news conference at 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m.EDT), Monday, Aug. 27, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., about the activities of its Curiosity rover mission on Mars. The event will feature new images, an update of the rover's progress, and a special greeting by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.
Televised news conferences are broadcast live on NASA TV and online at:
http://www.nasa.gov/ and
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl The Mars Curiosity team is operating on Mars time. The Martian day is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day. Media events are scheduled based on team availability and are subject to change. Updates of event times will be posted at:
http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon For information about NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, including the Curiosity rover, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/msl and
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl D.C. Agle/Guy Webster 818-354-5011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
[email protected] /
[email protected] Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
Headquarters, Washington
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#506
by
go4mars
on 26 Aug, 2012 05:53
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Dr. Jim Bell goes through a brief notion of where MSL will be going. Starting around 21 minutes.
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#507
by
TheFallen
on 26 Aug, 2012 06:05
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Awesome. Though I'm waiting for a color panorama that actually includes the rover in it. Just saying
Have a look further up the thread for the one I linked. If you've got an iPad it's even stunningly interactive.
EDIT:
Here it is again:
http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2
Nice work. But I meant a
true-color panorama... Not a colorized Navcam image. Sorry for being so finicky
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#508
by
iamlucky13
on 26 Aug, 2012 09:24
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Awesome. Though I'm waiting for a color panorama that actually includes the rover in it. Just saying
Have a look further up the thread for the one I linked. If you've got an iPad it's even stunningly interactive.
EDIT:
Here it is again:
http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2
Nice work. But I meant a true-color panorama... Not a colorized Navcam image. Sorry for being so finicky
You might be waiting a while. The mastcams trade more resolution for a narrower field of view compared to the navcams. The result is a full panorama takes almost 10 times as many images, and consequently 10 times as much data return. They've got generally in the range of 250-800 MB worth of bandwidth available per sol, but Malin says that a 360 degree x 80 degree panorama will take about 2.5 GB worth of raw images (the source didn't specify, so that might have been for the 100mm mastcam, not the 34mm).
Hence why the mastcam panorama we have so far is substantially cropped in the vertical.
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#509
by
jumpjack
on 26 Aug, 2012 12:42
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I hate fake-color navcam images indeed. What's the meaning of them? They could also be green- or blue-colorized!
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#510
by
pippin
on 26 Aug, 2012 13:28
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You don't need an iPad. It's interactive on my Windows 7 PC just fine.
Yes, but if you haven't seen it on an iPad with the gyro feature enabled (default) and everything you don't even know what I mean. Believe me.
"Interactive" as on a PC or Mac is nothing compared to that. Dragging a picture around on a screen with a mouse is no "wow" effect. Turning around on an office chair and looking at the image like through a window IS.
Don't know whether it would work on an Android tablet as well, don't have one.
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#511
by
jumpjack
on 26 Aug, 2012 13:30
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Augmented reality on Mars?!?
Cool! :-)
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#512
by
Robotbeat
on 26 Aug, 2012 20:59
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You don't need an iPad. It's interactive on my Windows 7 PC just fine.
Yes, but if you haven't seen it on an iPad with the gyro feature enabled (default) and everything you don't even know what I mean. Believe me.
"Interactive" as on a PC or Mac is nothing compared to that. Dragging a picture around on a screen with a mouse is no "wow" effect. Turning around on an office chair and looking at the image like through a window IS.
Don't know whether it would work on an Android tablet as well, don't have one.
Works on iPhone.
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#513
by
Bogeyman
on 27 Aug, 2012 13:58
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WHOW!!! Now THAT's awsome! I hope JPL provides us with frequent panoramas like this every now and then. With your iphone moving in front of you it seems as if you really are on mars...
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#514
by
jumpjack
on 27 Aug, 2012 21:13
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News conference startd.
AMAZING full color mastcam images of far targets (up to 16 km)
A picture shows how big (small) the rover would look upon reaching a far target.
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#515
by
jumpjack
on 27 Aug, 2012 21:15
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Speaker appears excited at looking from grounwhat he only viewed from orbit till now.
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#516
by
jumpjack
on 27 Aug, 2012 21:15
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Lots of layer visible.
Comparison with terrestrial Gran Canyon's layers.
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#517
by
jumpjack
on 27 Aug, 2012 21:18
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Explanation of science instruments onboard:
QMS, GC, ...
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#518
by
jumpjack
on 27 Aug, 2012 21:19
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TLS, SSIT,...
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#519
by
jumpjack
on 27 Aug, 2012 21:19
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Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator of the SAM instrument, is describing them.
