Dr C: If you were asking: What will Curiosity do on Mars?, the answer is: Mars Science Laboratory is a rover, named Curiosity, that will assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet’s ‘habitability.’ Read more at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/overview/
i’m sitting here, kinda into it and reflecting on the long history of this project, listening in on the progress this here latest nail-biter, it’s fun.
In my armchair musing on the whole progression, or should I say evolution, behind this vehicle being possible… while all these professionals are working their butts off, and now sitting back to really sweat bullets . . . . . . . i’m tempted into rambling on, but never mind.
Amazing and Audacious keeps going through my mind.
The craft is on it’s own, and we’re just listening in and hoping, do or die….......................
and it’s fun watching it in real time - better than any pro sporting event.
Well done, NASA. As CC said, this is much more exciting than a sporting event. I can’t remember who won the World Series last year, but Curiosity will keep us busy and entertained for years. Here’s hoping the little vehicle lasts half as long as its predecessors.
Incredible landing! Couldn’t stay awake for it but saw the news on CNN. Curiosity makes the first rover look like a tinker toy! Hope to see some clear pictures in the future.
Incredible landing! Couldn’t stay awake for it but saw the news on CNN. Curiosity makes the first rover look like a tinker toy! Hope to see some clear pictures in the future.
Cap’t Jack
It was fun.
Then the Odyssey orbiter made the communication link that NASA was saying was iffy, since it was so low on the horizon.
In any event, that meant that telemetry was coming in uninterrupted,
in more or less real time, minus seven minutes that is.
And knowing how complicated the whole process was, listening to the various stages proceeding as planned, despite all the things that could go wrong racing through my mind, well… it was tense and exciting.
Can’t even image how scientists and engineers who have spend large portions of their careers on this project felt.
Job Well Done - congrats to NASA and all the rest who had a part in the project
And as Darron said, now the real fun starts.
It is so amazing that there is another rover on Mars. Its a hole in one for NASA. But the sad thing is that very soon Marvin the Martian will zap that rover. The more that NASA explores that planet then the more likely it is! So, as each sol goes by, we can be more and more certain that Marvin will zap that rover!
