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Offline Maniac

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"Spirit" of Mars landed and is A.O.K
« on: January 03, 2004, 11:09:35 PM »
It landed and has sent its first signals...

WOOOT!

To follow whats happening : http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status.html

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0500 GMT (12:00 a.m. EST)
With Spirit on the surface, it will use motors retract the airbags. This operation could take an hour to complete. Then the lander will open up like a flower, lowering its petals to reveal the rover tucked inside. Since Spirit has landed with its base petal down -- the best case scenario -- the opening will take less time.

Next, the rover will deploy its power-generating solar panels. Then it can begin taking some pictures of the landing site. Those initial images, if snapped this evening, could be released by NASA within hours.
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2004, 11:18:26 PM »
They said it will be at least 9 days until the rover even moves.
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Offline Maniac

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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2004, 11:20:20 PM »
Cool.

I find it amazing that they can send a thing like this so far, land it on another planet and controll it from from earth in the first place :)

Mankind rule :D
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Re: "Spirit" of Mars landed and is A.O.K
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2004, 11:45:33 PM »
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Originally posted by Maniac
It landed and has sent its first signals...

WOOOT!

To follow whats happening : http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status.html


Another USA hating post by Maniac....































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Offline Maniac

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« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2004, 11:47:10 PM »
LOL :D
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2004, 12:07:08 AM »
It's all about the oil.
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Offline LePaul

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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2004, 12:09:39 AM »
LOL

Great news

I recently met up with a friend from grade school, was the smartest kid in class, etc.  Works for NASA.  He was one of the lead programmers that created the navigation program/starfinder/etc for Stardust, the craft that just made the flyby behind the comet.  

Its just amazing to think what it takes to compute gravity, trajectory, etc to made something navigate out there.
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Offline Maniac

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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2004, 12:14:03 AM »
As someone over at AGW said, use the Spiriit to find the Beagle :)

Well i have to watch the pics tomorrow, getting late here 7 o clock in the mornin...

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"When you walk outside today, if it is clear, you can see Mars. Just think, we just landed a rover on that planet. That is very sobering," JPL director Charles Elachi says.


Amen.
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« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2004, 02:45:11 AM »
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Ah, I see the Martians took our European bait, allowing the Spirit slip through their defences! Soon we will send Star Destroyers! :D

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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2004, 03:07:43 AM »
congrats NASA.

Ahh, just send a P38 with Ack-Ack up there..... he sure has the alt experience ;)






...and prolly the skill to B&Z all them little green men to :)
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Offline Tuomio

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« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2004, 04:34:55 AM »
Yeah its funny how they can calculate rover positions out of their engineer arse better than you can do with GPS on earth.

It would be funny if someday some aliens would be sending similar rovers to earth and we didnt have clue from where theyre sending them. It would drive us nuts. :p
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Offline _Schadenfreude_

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« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2004, 05:29:49 AM »
Obviously the Nasa boffins didn't subscribe to the "I know! Let's put it into the middle of a big bouncy ball and see if that works!" school of space exploration...
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Offline Tuomio

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« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2004, 07:25:53 AM »
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Obviously the Nasa boffins didn't subscribe to the "I know! Let's put it into the middle of a big bouncy ball and see if that works!" school of space exploration...


Actually they did.
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Offline DA98

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« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2004, 09:02:32 AM »
First image sent:

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« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2004, 09:05:37 AM »
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Actually they did.


Twice (previous NASA probe landed same way).

It's an NASA idea originally.
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