Curiosity Mission

Postby Kirito » Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:24 pm

Anybody here watching the amazing mission of Curiosity on Mars? Any thoughts on what this is going to do for us as Humans.
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Re: Curiosity Mission

Postby Jack Roper » Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:17 pm

Maybe we'll get a new flavor of Tang and definitely a depletion of the Federal budget by 2 1/2 Billion!

Re: Curiosity Mission

Postby Jason Toddman » Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:10 am

Now that it's made a successful landing, I hope it lives up to its name. But Jeez, why is it going to take weeks just to check itself over?!?
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Re: Curiosity Mission

Postby skybird137 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:53 am

We talking about half an hour between sending a signal to Mars and receiving a response. Plus they will have to wade through data on the self checks.

There is also limited contact time via the Orbiter, so reception of information will take time.

It's taken over seven months getting there, so taking a few weeks to make sure that the rover is 100% ready is not a problem.
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Re: Curiosity Mission

Postby Jason Toddman » Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:18 am

skybird137 wrote:We talking about half an hour between sending a signal to Mars and receiving a response. Plus they will have to wade through data on the self checks.

There is also limited contact time via the Orbiter, so reception of information will take time.

It's taken over seven months getting there, so taking a few weeks to make sure that the rover is 100% ready is not a problem.

Actually I knew all this already :big: but that doesn't mean I can't gripe about it anyway. :quirk: I'm an impatient cuss and want to learn what that probe has to discover! I'm full of... Curiosity! :big:
Still, I wonder if a manned mission would have required all these checks. I sure hope not; they'd get nothing done before they'd have to leave again. At least Curiosity has all the time in the world (or, rather, on Mars) until it's power dies or something goes wrong with it (hopefully only after a very long and fruitful mission). No one expects to have it come back, just as no one would expect astronauts to stay until they died... making unmanned probes all the more sensible IMO. At least Death cannot become a factor in any disaster involving Curiosity.
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Re: Curiosity Mission

Postby Reidy » Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:21 am

So long as they don't discover and piss off the Mysterons.

Re: Curiosity Mission

Postby Jason Toddman » Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:10 am

Reidy wrote:So long as they don't discover and piss off the Mysterons.

I'd be more inclined to wonder about the octopoid Martians from "War of the Worlds"... or even the Tharks from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian planetary romances... as I never got a chance to watch or appreciate the Captain Scarlet TV series; AFAIK it was never shown in the US (or at least the parts of it where I've lived).
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