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2 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

That preview looks badass. I know we can’t watch live, but are there going to be videos released? Do they have cameras on for the landing or are they all tucked inside for safety?

Best you can do today is watch the control room sweat it out.

Here's Curiosity's view of landing on Mars, from 2012.  I think the thing dropping at the beginning is the heat shield.

 

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1 minute ago, Jerry Callo said:

My wife worked on one of the components that allowed for safe landing.  Pretty impressive that something she worked on is sitting on the surface of Mars.

That's awesome.

 

Has she ever backed into anything with her car?

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On a serious note, congrats to all the steely eyed missile men and women that made pulling a rabbit out of your ass 128 million miles away while threading a needle possible.

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Just now, phdhorn said:

It's probably 75 degrees warmer there than us this week.

To be fair, they don't have water either.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Saint Tacky said:

Can NASA maintain a power grid?

Barely and they only have 5 customers on the whole damned planet.

Posted
40 minutes ago, smuggs said:

More images of the team member in the white pants, pls.

Maybe it's the camera angle, but she was in the center of a lot of the shots.

 

That said... white pants before Memorial Day. Bad fashion sense, would not bang, gently.

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This stuff is hats off amazing to me. I can't get the wooden gate to hang correctly and these people fly a rocket 100 million miles away, have a self-directed landing, and send back pictures right away. Next up? We're going to fly a drone around.

So, yeah. They're bad ass.

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, RPM said:

Jessica Samuels has some rats.

She had a kid during all of the mission prep/engineering/etc. 7 years ago, maybe another since then.  Not surprising.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Constant said:

How do we get it back?

They mentioned something about a future vehicle that will retrieve the samples, launch from Mars to be collected by an ESA vehicle in orbit. I don't recall if that particular spacecraft is coming back to earth, or if it relays the samples to another ship.

Either way, fascinating stuff. The Martian book/movie (*** Matt Damon!!! ***) actually did a decent job explaining the science about Martian travel, so watch the movie for entertainment and some learning.

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3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

She had a kid during all of the mission prep/engineering/etc. 7 years ago, maybe another since then.  Not surprising.

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That right there are two women who fuck.

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