Curiosity will rock the world! Mars Rover UPDATES - - October 13 latest Martian panorama..

More MSL:

the Navcams have imaged the complete Aeolis Mons (front) now! A rough mosaic:

[link to twitpic.com]


See also [link to galegazette.wordpress.com] …




Tentative travel plans for Mars rover Curiosity unveiled
[link to spaceflightnow.com]




Emily indeed has created a better panorama from these low-contrast (low phase angle) images already: [link to www.planetary.org]

More Aeolis Mons mosaicking with today's Navcam images included: [link to dougellison.smugmug.com] …

includes a stereo view (as the Navcam has two eyes)


and by ESA:

Mars Express rocking and rolling with NASA’s Curiosity & Opportunity
[link to blogs.esa.int]

Some indirect evidence that MSL Curiosity has grilled that poor Mars rock: see discussion [link to www.unmannedspaceflight.com] - and [link to io9.com]

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA will host several media teleconferences and/or news conferences to provide Curiosity rover mission updates in the coming weeks.

The next scheduled media telecons are: Tuesday, Aug. 21 and Thursday, Aug. 23, both at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT).


Audio of media telecons is streamed live online at: [link to www.nasa.gov] and [link to www.ustream.tv] Visuals will be available at the start of each telecon at: [link to go.nasa.gov]

Televised news conferences are broadcast live on NASA TV and online at: [link to www.nasa.gov] and [link to www.ustream.tv]

For more information about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: [link to mars.jpl.nasa.gov]
[link to www.jpl.nasa.gov]

Ouch!!! Apparently MSL Curiosity has just shot itself - i.e. a calibration target - with the ChemCam's laser: [link to www.unmannedspaceflight.com]
(scroll down)

Is there a well-done "Curiosity" Documentary available yet?

I'd really like to see one.

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Btw the Mars rock - now named "Coronation" - *has* been zapped by the MSL laser, and ChemCam got good spectra: [link to www.jpl.nasa.gov]






@AC

oh yep we wait for that all here :)

You can find very good and well done vids here:
[link to www.youtube.com]

Can you find (laser-hit) Coronation in the complete MSL Mastcam panorama [link to www.nivnac.co.uk] Hint: go right from camera head's shadow

EarthSky came up with a nice article today


Beat up planet Mars has more than 635,000 craters



Mars is a beaten and battered planet. Astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of years. But just how beat up is it?




[link to www.youtube.com]


ReadMore:
[link to earthsky.org]

What is this, do not look like a stone!
[link to gigapan.com]

See here this area selected:
[link to s10.postimage.org]

Other very interesting capture is this one:
[link to gigapan.com]

What do you think?

What It's Like to Land On Mars

[link to youtu.be]
Published on Aug 21, 2012 by JPLnews

This video steps viewers through a portion of the choreography needed to land NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. It starts with a computer simulation from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System program and uses actual images from Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager. It ends with a high-resolution color image from Curiosity's Mast Camera.

NASA Announces Curiosity Rover Media Events Schedule
08/21/2012 12:00 AM EDT

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host two media events this week to provide Curiosity rover mission updates. The first event is a media teleconference at 1p.m. EDT, today. The second event is televised briefing at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Aug. 22.

[link to www.nasa.gov]

Lives on Mars, zaps rocks + tweets. What can't he do? Get a cold brew, apparently

[link to twitter.com (secure)]

That's for you 76

Damn, missed the today conference..... Anyone have a synopsis ?

Errrrrr.... I'm a day early, duh. Conference tomorrow, still going to miss it, but IWTB & Isis7 will be there I bet.

Last Edited by Redpaw360 on 08/22/2012 01:20 AM

Hiya Red and Isis,


that will be some int stuff indeed hehe. Thanks for all the updates was a bit busy last days

everything you need is right here. there is nothing new out there.

I may be busy right now with contracts but I can stick with this thread for the duration of the mission. I look forward shortly to posting great info and following great posted info here within this thread.

First Drive for Curiosity Rover an “Historic” Moment





Any rover only gets one ‘first’ drive, and this historic moment has now occurred for the Curiosity Mars rover. “These are historic photos,” said rover driver Matt Heverly, “since there is only one place where your tracks start.”

“It is a really big moment,” said Curiosity Project Manager Pete Theisinger. “We built a rover. Unless the rover roves, we haven’t really accomplished anything.”
[link to www.universetoday.com]





[link to www.youtube.com]





Read more: [link to www.universetoday.com]

Live now! California governor JerryBrownGov visits JPL and MarsCuriosity team

Watch live [link to www.ustream.tv]

I've found that [link to mars.jpl.nasa.gov] …

gets the brand-new visuals more quickly than:
[link to www.nasa.gov] …

Discovery.com has stome stunning pics...


She Roves! Curiosity Hits the Martian Road: Big Pics
[link to news.discovery.com]

Small rant, not about this thread, just about JPL & NASA & CALTECH.

Extensive testing in the labs, in the deserts of California and repeated re-testing before this thing was even considered to be feasible..... They didn't hesitate when they had the rover here on earth to just grab the software and drive the damn thing. They drove it, tried to break it to see what it could and couldn't do...and they did multi tasking of driving and camera analysis as well as firing the laser ....ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

The rover made the softest landing ever, and now they decide to baby the damn thing.

In my opinion, if the rover didn't land, switch to second harddrive containing drive commands, drive 500' minimum, while taking pictures and firing lasers all within the first 24 hours of touchdown, then it is a failire...And THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH SCIENCE AND THE GOVERNMENT.

It took two weeks to drive 20'. We have less than 100 photos of quality. One rock analysis. One weather report.

I don't understand how this thing just sits there, day after day and we call that progress?. The rover should have been miles away by now and sent reams of data to storage. I could have drove an RC car up that damn mountain and back in two weeks and been another mile away by now.

Lately NASA stands for " Needs Another Special Analysis"

NASA Announces Aug. 27 Mars News Conference

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will hold a televised news conference at 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m. EDT), Monday, Aug. 27, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., about the activities of its Curiosity rover mission on Mars. The event will feature new images, an update of the rover’s progress, and a special greeting by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.
[link to www.nasa.gov]

Michio Kaku: The Search for Life on Mars

[link to youtu.be]

Mount Sharp on Mars: Curiosity Rover's Panoramic View (Photo)

[link to www.space.com]

Thank you Isis7 & IWTB, I really do love our space missions and our space program. I also appreciate the input of others who share their wonderment and musings about our endeavors as humans.

I probably should keep my rants out of this thread, and realized that it will take two years to drive to the top of that mountain. It is stated as the end goal of the mission and I'd probably wreck the damn thing if I was driving it.

I Look forward to more news about the mission.

Have a great weekend.

Hiya redpaw hope u had a great weekend :)

my was a bit to wet, haha (beer)




Went online seconds ago: [link to mars.jpl.nasa.gov] = the final Mastcam panorama, 7000 x 29000 pixels of Gale crater & Aeolis Mons beauty for you!