Landing On Mars

NASA scientists explain the "Seven Minutes of Terror". On August 5th it will take 7 minutes for the $2.5 billion dollar Mars Rover Curiosity to go from 13,000 miles per hour to zero.

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+34 1. MajorIdea commented 12 years ago

Holly sh*t that was EPIC 8-)
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+25 2. gpullen commented 12 years ago

wow, thats pretty impressive! :O
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+35 3. loadrunner commented 12 years ago

Science reality. better then fiction :D
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+31 4. dfinit commented 12 years ago

Good luck NASA, I hope this will work as intended. We really do need some encouraging achievements like this! 8-)
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+6 5. Teqskater commented 12 years ago

When i did see this i tought....that's nearly impossible to do! And i think i am right. But i hope it isnt.
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+3 6. cameramaster commented 12 years ago

Amazing technology....its a pity it didn't apply to the lipsynch though
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+6 7. irishgek commented 12 years ago

500,000 lines of code !! All that 2.5billion resting on a chip with a file no bigger than a mp3 . Amazing !
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+4 8. Norman68 commented 12 years ago

I cured that " Lipsynch " issue #6 , ;) I had to watch it with NO audio and this is still very impressive indeed, Just look at technology and the way it has evolved and developed over the last " 5o yrs " I want me a Hoverboard, Invent one of those next please nice Mr scientist :P
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+3 9. cretia commented 12 years ago

If this works nothing will be impossible!
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-4 10. ThisIsMe commented 12 years ago

What a shame to expend so much money, time and effort to reach another planet, when our own is so fucked up. :|
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+1 11. AnonFawkesClown commented 12 years ago

Haven't we already been to Mars? I mean , unmanned vehicle ?
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+2 12. LightAng3l commented 12 years ago

Oh... how far we have come from our caves, sticks and stones. It was just yesterday we where hunting wild boar with a flint hammer.

I will be watching this on the 5th, but as hopeful as i am... I have to admit, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. Can it even hover in the thin atmosphere?
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+2 13. archis commented 12 years ago

Only this time please dont fail for that stupid reason, becouse one smartass does calculations in feet.
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0 14. samxgx commented 12 years ago

Somethings in life are called Impossible just because the one who knows how to do it, doesn't feel like doing it
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0 15. Remag commented 12 years ago

crazy how far we've come in such a small amount of time
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+3 16. Spartan118 commented 12 years ago

wow, I can see why they call it 7 minutes of terror, its 7 min of watching billions of dollars of equipment and thousands of hours of work guide itself threw some insane maneuvers, and not being able to do anything but watch as it either lands safely.... or one little thing goes wrong and it just crash and burns.

Though what I want to know is what was wrong with the first landing design, you know, with the huge balloons and just letting the rover bounce when it hits the surface?
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+4 17. zongap commented 12 years ago

#16 the parachute cannot slow down the rover below 200mph (320kmh) because the atmosphere is too thin and differs in composition from ours (different gases = different density and friction). Also add the different gravity...

Additionnaly, the balloon is not a precise enough option when it comes to "where do we land". The rover must absolutely land in a valley, otherwise it would be useless. And the balloon has to fall far from the rover not to smother it !

PS : sorry for my foreign english
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-3 18. majais commented 12 years ago

Childsplay!
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+1 19. donaldbrandon commented 12 years ago

impresionante :)
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+2 20. loadrunner commented 12 years ago

#5 And why do we do it? Not because it is easy, but because it is hard...
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+1 21. drevil commented 12 years ago

real science fiction.. i love it!