Title: The Mars rover is on the ground. Post by: Creighton on August 06, 2012, 12:54:56 am Folks this is not easy !%@$. Glad all went well.
Lot's could be said but I'll leave it at the USA rocks! Creighton Title: Re: The Mars rover is on the ground. Post by: bcharlton on August 06, 2012, 07:12:33 am Me too. Amazing technology
Title: Re: The Mars rover is on the ground. Post by: MaineT on August 06, 2012, 07:54:17 am In 125 years we have gone from Edison putting out a viable recording system of audio to transmitting video from the surface of Mars to earth and broadcasting it around the world.... What will the next 125 years bring???
Title: Re: The Mars rover is on the ground. Post by: halehouse on August 06, 2012, 08:12:10 am Cool. And I heard it on SMC first!
Title: Re: The Mars rover is on the ground. Post by: tkaz on August 06, 2012, 03:30:00 pm Really cool to watch the live feed from the NASA JPL control room last night. Pretty incredible that they could land it within a few meters of the intended spot, lower it down from a hovering crane, and have it beam back pictures within 10 minutes...all from 150 million miles away!
Title: Re: The Mars rover is on the ground. Post by: Larry on August 06, 2012, 06:37:22 pm In 125 years we have gone from Edison putting out a viable recording system of audio to transmitting video from the surface of Mars to earth and broadcasting it around the world.... What will the next 125 years bring??? Beam me up Scotty. Title: Re: The Mars rover is on the ground. Post by: Blind1968 on August 07, 2012, 09:25:07 am The newest images of Mars.... :biggrin: :laugh: :biggrin: :laugh:
In all honesty this is some really cool complex stuff that had to go right the first time in every stage to make this happen. Awesome job folks! So sorry world if we are a little behind in the Medal count at the Olympics… we been busy! |