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NASA's Curiosity Rover - Touchdown confirmed. 21-0 Duke

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The little silver dot in the middle of the bottom left quadrant is curiosity. If you get a chance, check out the high-res image.

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Seriously, are they just missing that part of the photo? Why would they black out areas?
 
Such a cool picture. The imaging technology on this thing is cutting edge. The pic is a zoomed in closeup of a rock which they zapped with the laser to create plasma to read with spectrometers.

ChemCam hit Coronation(the rock in the picture below) with 30 pulses of its laser during a 10-second period. Each pulse delivered more than a million watts of power for about five one-billionths of a second. The energy from the laser excited atoms in the rock into an ionized, glowing plasma. ChemCam also caught the light from that spark with a telescope and analyzed it with three spectrometers for information about what elements are in the target.
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Video of the heat shield impacting the Martian surface. Taken from the Mars Descent Imager.

 
If you missed the reddit AMA from the Curiosity guys, it's a must-read.
 
TWDeac said:
I think that is dummy data. The weather measuring device(REMS) hasn't been calibrated yet.
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Oh, bro don't send me a link that isn't giving the correct information.

How cold is Mars typically? Does the extra distance from the sun make it way cold or what?
 
cookoutdeac said:
Oh, bro don't send me a link that isn't giving the correct information.

How cold is Mars typically? Does the extra distance from the sun make it way cold or what?
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I think I heard that the highest temp they had measured in Curiosity's location was 1 celsius. They chose an equatorial location to keep it from getting too cold for the rover.

edit: Looks like they turned it on today. The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station, or REMS, also was collecting data about the weather on Mars, showing a high temperature Thursday of a relatively balmy 276 degrees above absolute zero, or about 37 degrees Fahrenheit.
 
TWDeac said:
I think I heard that the highest temp they had measured in Curiosity's location was 1 celsius. They chose an equatorial location to keep it from getting too cold for the rover.

edit: Looks like they turned it on today. The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station, or REMS, also was collecting data about the weather on Mars, showing a high temperature Thursday of a relatively balmy 276 degrees above absolute zero, or about 37 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Nice we need to get some snow machines up there and start a ski operation asap on those slopes. How's the gravity?
 
cookoutdeac said:
Nice we need to get some snow machines up there and start a ski operation asap on those slopes. How's the gravity?
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A little bit less than Earth. It would be a good time for sure. You could ski for days straight down Olympus Mons. It is 14 miles high.
 
TWDeac said:
A little bit less than Earth. It would be a good time for sure. You could ski for days straight down Olympus Mons. It is 14 miles high.
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Sweeeet, gonna get some baller air time.
 
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