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Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« on: July 31, 2012, 10:15:21 am »
On the night of August 5th, there may be a new rover on Mars, as big as a small car. Or there may be a pile of junk. It all depends on what happens during the "Seven Minutes of Terror".
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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2012, 08:13:08 pm »
So is the US landing something in Mars ?
How cool
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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2012, 08:58:58 pm »
The landing time stated in the video is Pacific time, because the project is managed at JPL in California.
Edit: The NASA website on this mission is here. They have a count-down counter till the landing.

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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2012, 10:29:29 pm »
Quote from: fiero128 on August 03, 2012, 08:13:08 pm
So is the US landing something in Mars ?
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getting ready for Big brother TV show in about 2050

Sent up on a Russian rocket financed with a Chinese loan? 
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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2012, 10:45:20 pm »
It was launched on an American Atlas 5 rocket (last November, I think).
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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2012, 08:29:21 pm »
I'm not going to recall this precisely, but there was a famous live TV interview, where just seconds before lift off, Walter Cronkite was told he could ask (I beleive it was John Glenn) just one quick question...

So, Cronkite asked, "Are you nervous?"

The astronaut replied, "I'm sitting 387 feet in the air, atop the explosive power of 3 million pounds of TNT, in a craft assembled of 670,843 parts, each of which was furnished by the lowest of three bidders... yes, sir, I'm pretty nervous..."

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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2012, 09:40:52 am »
The rover landed successfully, and will now begin a planned 2-year mission (1 Martian year). Of course, it could last longer. One of the two rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) that landed in 2004 is still operational, and they were only planned for 90-day missions. The other one lasted till 2008.
The old rovers were solar powered, but this new one, which weighs 5 times as much as either of the old ones, is nuclear powered.
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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2012, 11:59:28 am »
"It is far better to dare mighty things even though we might fail, than to stay in the twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

-- Dr. Charles Elachi, director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at the post landing news conference.

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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2012, 09:19:37 pm »
Greetings from Mars....

Want to go there?
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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2012, 09:16:58 am »
Just checking out the 'hood...

http://panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html






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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2012, 01:45:33 pm »
Quote from: TopNotch on September 02, 2012, 09:19:37 pm
Greetings from Mars....


I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it!  A Martian Run For The Hills!
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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2012, 02:14:35 pm »
Quote from: Fierofool on September 04, 2012, 01:45:33 pm
I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it!  A Martian Run For The Hills!

LMAO!!!! ;D

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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2012, 06:13:13 pm »
This comes from Fiero GTB.  I'm sure some among us will certainly agree.

BREAKING NEWS

The latest photo feed from Mars shows that the rover "Curiosity" has been brought to a complete stand-still!
As anyone who's even run the Tail Of The Dragon knows, these TN Troopers are expert at hiding anywhere!

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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2012, 08:10:03 pm »
Priceless!
 
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Re: Coming Aug. 5th, 7 Minutes of Terror
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2012, 09:54:55 am »
The electric motors that power the rover aren't very fast, but they produce over 400 foot-pounds of torque -- each! (And there's 6 of them.) Better move out of the way, TN Trooper!
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