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Aug 10, 2012 22:30:56   #
tinosa Loc: Grand Rapids Michigan
 
Here's a link to NASA's Curiosity rover 360 degree pano of the crater it landed in.

It was captured with a 2 megapixel camera ! ! !
Amazing what NASA has always been able to do with minimum bytes and pixels.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120809.html

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Aug 11, 2012 11:06:43   #
HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO
 
tinosa wrote:
Here's a link to NASA's Curiosity rover 360 degree pano of the crater it landed in.

It was captured with a 2 megapixel camera ! ! !
Amazing what NASA has always been able to do with minimum bytes and pixels.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120809.html



Thanks, Tinosa - I'll never complained of only having 16 again! Was there any footage of the landing?

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Aug 11, 2012 18:31:43   #
proteus1 Loc: NEVADA
 
HEART wrote:
tinosa wrote:
Here's a link to NASA's Curiosity rover 360 degree pano of the crater it landed in.

It was captured with a 2 megapixel camera ! ! !
Amazing what NASA has always been able to do with minimum bytes and pixels.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120809.html



Thanks, Tinosa - I'll never complained of only having 16 again! Was there any footage of the landing?


Mars rover Curiosity and all of it's cameras, with location..

the camera called 'MARDI' is the descent imager..

Quote from a NASA/JPL release- - - -

"First up is the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI), which recently beamed back an amazing video of the rover’s nail-biting descent. MARDI turned on during the final few minutes of the “Seven Minutes of Terror” and recorded a full-color high-definition movie as the ground rushed up to meet the rover. With this film (and the coming high-def version), you get to experience what the wild ride down to the surface looked like."

The descent link -> -> V

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/curiosity-descent-video/




There are no cats on Mars


Curiosity killed the cats



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Aug 11, 2012 18:46:04   #
proteus1 Loc: NEVADA
 
The MARDI - - - - --



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Aug 12, 2012 10:23:21   #
HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO
 
Love the "cats" thing. Thanks for the link.

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