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#60
by
Nathan
on 08 Aug, 2012 10:12
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#61
by
MarsInMyLifetime
on 08 Aug, 2012 10:14
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Note the thruster impingement points. Very cool.
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#62
by
Silmfeanor
on 08 Aug, 2012 10:42
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#63
by
douglas100
on 08 Aug, 2012 10:45
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Love the 2 navcam pics, especially the way the rim mountains become hazy in the distance.
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#64
by
saturnapollo
on 08 Aug, 2012 11:00
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Brilliant photos. Been waiting a long time to see Martian mountains.
Here's the two again, but brightened a bit.
Keith
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#65
by
kevinof
on 08 Aug, 2012 11:06
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Very little dust visible on Curiosity.
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#66
by
ugordan
on 08 Aug, 2012 11:08
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Very little dust visible on Curiosity.
Correction: very little coarse-grained stuff seen on Curiosity. It might still be covered with a thin film of fine, orangish dust, and to figure that out we'll have to wait for color images.
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#67
by
kevin-rf
on 08 Aug, 2012 13:50
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Could it have happened that the tank content exploded upon impact?
Over at UMSF, at least one apparently secondary impact pointing back to the descent stage impact was identified in the HiRISE image. This suggests that at least some components of the descent stage didn't go peacefully. What's more, the distance the secondary piece travelled is more than the distance to the rover!
The discussion has since evolved into it looks like the rear(?) hazcam caught the dust cloud the skycrane kicked up on impact.
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=7401&view=findpost&p=187592
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#68
by
ugordan
on 08 Aug, 2012 14:03
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Yes, that was speculated almost immediately since two separate sets of rear hazcam images were received - one with covers on immediately after landing, showing *something* in both left and right images, and one with covers off showing nothing there later.
The question was raised during yesterday's presser and it wasn't ruled out, in fact it looks very plausible.
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#69
by
mduncan36
on 08 Aug, 2012 14:43
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I know how cliched it is to say this but I can't get over the resemblance of these photos to some of my own taken in a dry area of Lake Meade outside Las Vegas. Surely MRO would have spotted a neon city on the other side of those hills, right? Thoughts like that really make you ponder what that site looked like in the ancient past and what might be there that we aren't seeing yet. Which is the alien landscape? Earth or Mars?
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#70
by
Archibald
on 08 Aug, 2012 14:54
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Brilliant photos. Been waiting a long time to see Martian mountains.
Here's the two again, but brightened a bit.
Keith
These martians mountains /
Are a home now for me /
But my home is the lowlands /
And always will be /
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Brothers in Mars ?
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#71
by
Chris Bergin
on 08 Aug, 2012 15:24
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The mast is up, navcam image of the deck. The rover and the optics seem to be pretty clear of dust.
That's wonderful. And a tip, that only just showed up on the @MarsCuriosity twitter feed, so that feed is a very slow one.
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#72
by
Retired Downrange
on 08 Aug, 2012 15:37
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#73
by
Chris Bergin
on 08 Aug, 2012 16:09
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#74
by
Jim
on 08 Aug, 2012 16:43
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Epic 3D-ness, and not to detract from live updates (there's a presser in less than an hour), but I wonder if there's commonality with the 3D camera on MSL with the Shuttle OBSS camera suite? OR if they are processed into 3D on the ground?
None, there are just multiple cameras and they can be combined on the ground.
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#75
by
ugordan
on 08 Aug, 2012 16:49
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And they are of MER heritage.
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#76
by
Chris Bergin
on 08 Aug, 2012 17:02
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Lowering numbers of journalists at the pressers.
All antennas and links working perfectly.
100mb of data on the last MRO pass.
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#77
by
Dappa
on 08 Aug, 2012 17:03
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Presser started with Jennifer Trosper, Justin Maki, John Grotzinger, Mike Malin, Don Hassler.
High gain session works, all links work perfectly now. Mastcam pointed away from the sun.
REMS issues understood and cleared.
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#78
by
Chris Bergin
on 08 Aug, 2012 17:03
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REMS working. Mast deployed.
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#79
by
Chris Bergin
on 08 Aug, 2012 17:06
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Planning Sol 3 now.
Will do a mast cam 360 degree pano.
Four Sols (5-9) for the software transition. Will be sent up on the HGA.
