Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 - Page 9

Unicron · August 8 2012, 10:54 PM

JanewayRulz! · August 9 2012, 01:51 PM

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...91026/1?csp=hf

LOVED this quote...

"You would really be forgiven for thinking that NASA was trying to pull a fast one on you and we actually put a rover out in the Mojave Desert and took a picture," project scientist John Grotzinger said.

And the conspiracy theorists HOWL! "

SilentP · August 9 2012, 07:06 PM

Unicron wrote:

NASA Mohawk Engineer really has become famous, hasn't he?

JanewayRulz! · August 10 2012, 07:25 PM

^^ I'm so embarrassed, I never noticed the engineer. Good eye!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRu0yB-uWlA

Dream · August 11 2012, 02:12 AM

Curiosity Rover Sends Back 1st 360-Degree Color View (PHOTO)

Alidar Jarok · August 11 2012, 02:32 AM

I appreciate they didn't tint it really red so we would believe it was real. That's definitely a cool pic.

MadOnion · August 11 2012, 02:35 AM

I watched the whole thing live and the whole time I was wondering "what's up with that guy". I can see how he became a topic.

Trekker4747 · August 12 2012, 03:02 AM

God, gorgeous.

MacLeod · August 13 2012, 05:52 PM

360 degree panorma :-

http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.../?ImageID=4372

James Tiberius Kirk · August 16 2012, 05:37 AM

Here's the mostly complete panorama in full-res, awesome stuff.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia1...aller-full.jpg

SilentP · August 16 2012, 06:14 PM

I've heard somewhere (think it may of been one of the BBC News website articles) that some of these panorama shots have been 're-coloured to colours that humans are more used to seeing'. What does that mean?

Trekker4747 · August 16 2012, 06:24 PM

SilentP wrote:

I've heard somewhere (think it may of been one of the BBC News website articles) that some of these panorama shots have been 're-coloured to colours that humans are more used to seeing'. What does that mean?

They've probably added more reds and browns than what is "really there." But I've also heard that the pictures we're getting here are "true color" ones as opposed to the "doctored" ones we've gotten in the past.

PurpleBuddha · August 17 2012, 05:30 AM

Trekker4747 wrote:

SilentP wrote:

I've heard somewhere (think it may of been one of the BBC News website articles) that some of these panorama shots have been 're-coloured to colours that humans are more used to seeing'. What does that mean?

They've probably added more reds and browns than what is "really there." But I've also heard that the pictures we're getting here are "true color" ones as opposed to the "doctored" ones we've gotten in the past.

Yeah they have basically been saying that the colored ones were some of the very first images but now the color is what the camera sees. It shouldn't be much further off in color than a picture from your phone.

Asbo Zaprudder · August 18 2012, 06:58 AM

Stunning, annotated panorama on the BBC site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19296006

MadOnion · August 19 2012, 12:48 AM

That's awesome. For the first time I really get the feeling of sitting in a giant crater with a mountain in the middle.

August 8 2012, 10:54 PM	#121
Unicron Continuity Spackle Location: Seeking harmony	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 __________________ "My dream is to eat candy and poop emeralds. I'm halfway successful." Catbert, Evil Director of Human Resources

August 9 2012, 01:51 PM	#122
JanewayRulz! Rear Admiral Location: North America	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...91026/1?csp=hf LOVED this quote... "You would really be forgiven for thinking that NASA was trying to pull a fast one on you and we actually put a rover out in the Mojave Desert and took a picture," project scientist John Grotzinger said. And the conspiracy theorists HOWL! " __________________ "But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!" Charlotte Bronte

August 10 2012, 07:25 PM	#124
JanewayRulz! Rear Admiral Location: North America	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 ^^ I'm so embarrassed, I never noticed the engineer. Good eye! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRu0yB-uWlA __________________ "But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!" Charlotte Bronte

August 11 2012, 02:12 AM	#125
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August 11 2012, 02:32 AM	#126
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August 11 2012, 02:35 AM	#127
MadOnion Lieutenant	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 I watched the whole thing live and the whole time I was wondering "what's up with that guy". I can see how he became a topic.

August 12 2012, 03:02 AM	#128
Trekker4747 To boldly go... Location: Kansas City	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 God, gorgeous. __________________ Just because it's futuristic doesn't mean it's practical.

August 13 2012, 05:52 PM	#129
MacLeod Vice Admiral Location: Great Britain	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 360 degree panorma :- http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.../?ImageID=4372 __________________ On the continent of wild endeavour in the mountains of solace and solitude there stood the citadel of the time lords, the oldest and most mighty race in the universe looking down on the galaxies below sworn never to interfere only to watch.

August 16 2012, 05:37 AM	#130
James Tiberius Kirk Fleet Captain	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 Here's the mostly complete panorama in full-res, awesome stuff. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia1...aller-full.jpg __________________ The favored march up over the hill, in some fools parade, shoutin' victory for the righteous, but there ain't much here but graves

August 16 2012, 06:14 PM	#131
SilentP Commodore Location: is in a very lonely Corner of the Circle	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 I've heard somewhere (think it may of been one of the BBC News website articles) that some of these panorama shots have been 're-coloured to colours that humans are more used to seeing'. What does that mean?

August 18 2012, 06:58 AM	#134
Asbo Zaprudder Rear Admiral Location: Chairman of the bored	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 Stunning, annotated panorama on the BBC site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19296006 __________________ "It is a lonely life, the way of the necromancer... oh, yes. Lacrimae Mundi - the tears of the world."

August 19 2012, 12:48 AM	#135
MadOnion Lieutenant	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 That's awesome. For the first time I really get the feeling of sitting in a giant crater with a mountain in the middle.