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Offline Fud

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Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« on: August 03, 2012, 08:15:12 PM »
I didn't realize how big that thing is until I saw pics of scientists standing next to it!
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2012, 08:19:06 PM »
When is it supposed to land? Are they going to show a real-time computer rendering of it, or does it have some kind of camera for entry?
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2012, 08:23:45 PM »
NASA has a bunch of info a streaming video links etc.
Heres link to NASA http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/msl_landing.cfm
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2012, 08:25:18 PM »
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2012, 08:37:03 PM »
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2012, 09:31:23 PM »
Quote from: Wildcat1 on August 03, 2012, 08:19:06 PM
When is it supposed to land? Are they going to show a real-time computer rendering of it, or does it have some kind of camera for entry?

  At this point, a radio signal from Mars will take a little over thirteen and a half minutes to get to Earth (if my calculations are correct).  No one will know if it landed safely until about fourteen minutes after the fact.

  Talk about your tape delay.....
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2012, 07:38:15 AM »
Will be following with great interest.  Good luck, NASA.  God speed Curiosoty. 

Cool that it will be shown at Times Square:  http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0731/Where-to-watch-Curiosity-s-Mars-landing-Times-Square.
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2012, 08:23:59 AM »
About 1/2 of them crash.

Lets hope for the best.
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2012, 09:26:44 AM »
Its all computer generated and not really happening.

Like landing on the moon it never happened.

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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2012, 10:17:31 AM »
Zack! I swear, I will smack you in the mouth!  ;)
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2012, 11:16:05 AM »
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2012, 11:47:11 AM »
 :rofl

I like space stuff really :)
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2012, 06:55:59 PM »
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Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?

me. space stuff is really cool :aok
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Re: Who will be watching Curiosity land on Mars?
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