NASA: Mars Curiosity Livestream

August 6th, 2012

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captured Image of Curiosity During Parachute Descent

Via: NASA:

An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16 meter) parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale Crater.

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They did it.

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3 Responses to “NASA: Mars Curiosity Livestream”

  1. anothershamus says:
    August 6, 2012 at 5:56 am

    Thanks for the link, it was fun to watch the landing from the POV of the Geeks!

  2. anothershamus says:
    August 6, 2012 at 6:02 am

    I was geeking out as much as all the others, just so you know.

  3. Harflimon says:
    August 6, 2012 at 6:37 am

    It really is an amazing feat of engineering and science that they pulled off.

    The actual scientific questions they might answer with this rover don’t particularly excite me. Whether or not Mars may at one point have supported life doesn’t prove much to me. I suppose it’s nice to have confirmation of a possibility. And it will certainly give us a lot of new data for Planetary Science and Astronomy in general.

    But I think the greatest advancement and achievement we get from this project was just landing the thing. The precision and skill that went into this landing will help all future landings on celestial objects. It’s really a great moment for space exploration and science. And a well spent $2.5 billion dollars, at least now I can say some of my tax money went into something awesome instead of killing brown people and smuggling cocaine (like the rest of it).

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