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NASA's Mars Rover Has Landed Successfully

You gotta feel good for these guys - I've never seen scientists get drunk on live TV before.
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NASA Rover Touches Down on Mars
By ANDREW BRIDGES, AP Science Writer

PASADENA, Calif. - A NASA rover plunged through the atmosphere of Mars and bounced down upon its rocky surface Saturday night, beginning a mission to roam the Red Planet in search of evidence that it was once suitable for life.

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory let out whoops of joy and embraced one another as signals from the Spirit rover indicated it had survived the landing.

When the spacecraft stopped bouncing, the four-petaled lander that contains the rover was standing upright. That will make unfolding it easier, said Chris Jones, director of planetary flight programs at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

"That is how we hoped it would land," Jones said.

Eat it, Beagle.

Good day for NASA, but I'm still waiting for a manned trip somewhere other then orbit to get my space juices flowing.

Watch Pres. Bush's state of the union address in a couple of weeks. Rumor has it that NASA will be one of the themes - a return to the moon, and then to Mars. Finally!

That said, the NASA news conference just said that there will be pictures in a few hours. I'll catch em in the morning.

i wish i had tv... , luckly i have my trusty computer to fill me in on the world, and my 2 fat cats right here to tell me all about mars. when i said fat i meant 18lbs, 15lbs.

Nasa TV live on the web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/

The official NASA sight:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Play by play as it happened:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...ustextonly.html

Live net coverage;
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Just awesome! And it landed upright - can't get much more of a perfect landing than that.

It was very exciting following each stage of the landing on the spaceflightnow sight. Unbelievable. Can't wait for the first pics...of rocks...and some sand .

Just cool.

They're just "downloading" the first batch of data (24megabits). 1 minute to go...

WOW! Here we go - the first pics coming now. Here's a screen capture from live NASA TV, overlooking the Mars landscape. Big rock and airbags over on the right in the first picture. The second pic is a mosaic of several.

(pics removed)

Some of the first images have been posted:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...0104image1.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...0104image2.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...0104image3.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...0104image5.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/...image5_full.jpg <--- nice high detail panoramic image (not colour tho - first colour images expected sunday evening US west time)

Better high res of pics above from official NASA site:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rov...P1502R000M1.jpg <-- same panoramic as above; probably best image so far.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rov...d-p150x_pol.jpg

Super high res colour image part 1 (4mb jpg 2500x2750 pixels)
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gall...6a/PIA04995.jpg

This looks like it until tomorrow. The rover is going to sleep until it makes contact with the NASA orbiter in a few hours. I'm goin' to bed - 2am here. Later-

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Originally posted by imokruok

AMERIKKKA #1! USA! USA! USA!

this is awsome though, a little more pricy than pathfinder, even if its two rovers instead of one. glad it made it... unlike last time

ps: pre-emtive conspiracy "THIS IS A HOAX AND WAS FILMED AT AREA 51"

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Originally posted by NeoPhono Eat it, Beagle. Good day for NASA, but I'm still waiting for a manned trip somewhere other then orbit to get my space juices flowing.

Euro is now even with us. We lost one, they lost one. also I agree, we need manned missions, and convert those terrorist martians who killed the beagle to americanism

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Originally posted by rizen Euro is now even with us. We lost one, they lost one.

Well, not quite. NASA's been there successfully before.

Re: NASA's Mars Rover Has Landed Successfully

Caption Reads: Scientist shout "Ya! Were not going to get fired for losing hundreds of millions of dollars like those stupid brits" as a NASA rover successfully lands on Mars for once.

^^^^^

LOL Yoepus, nice one. but really, how many hundreds of millions of dollars possible billions have been lost through failed missions. but i guess thats the price of exploration.i wonder what life on jupiter would be like?

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Originally posted by imokruok Well, not quite. NASA's been there successfully before.

really when was that? all im saying is that why make a big deal about the beagle. euro is new at this yet we have been at this since before JFK, and still lost one. shit happens.

Hehe, lol at Yoepus's comment

Well, it's nice to have at least one probe down there.

You can't deny NASA the respect it deserves . Spirit and opportunity are designed to cover as much territory as sojourner did in 3 months of travel in what previously took one day.

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You can't deny NASA the respect it deserves . Spirit and opportunity are designed to cover as much territory as sojourner did in 3 months of travel in what previously took one day.

Hey now, we all know it's just a Grave Digger remote control truck with a web cam taped to it.

Here's a pic I found off of NASA's website of the "Mars Grave Digger" in action.

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Originally posted by NeoPhono Here's a pic I found off of NASA's website of the "Mars Grave Digger" in action.

wow that's looks just like my own grave digger! awesome! All I need now is a powerful rocket and consistent metric calculations... NASA here I come!

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Originally posted by occrider You can't deny NASA the respect it deserves . Spirit and opportunity are designed to cover as much territory as sojourner did in 3 months of travel in what previously took one day.

no doubt, it just makes me smirk that ppl go "TAKE THAT BEAGLE!" while i know most ppl are joking about it, some forget that our last attempt failed.

Ladies and Gentleman Welcome to Mars - The Red Planet indeed, looks like a scene out of "Total Recall" Say what you want about America but name me another nation that can do this as of now, hmmmm. See the High Resoulution image and I do mean High Resolution @ http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040106a/PIA04995.jpg

anyone been able to find 3D images?

also:

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Originally posted by rizo ps: pre-emtive conspiracy "THIS IS A HOAX AND WAS FILMED AT AREA 51"

LOL

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Originally posted by NYCTrancefan Ladies and Gentleman Welcome to Mars - The Red Planet indeed, looks like a scene out of "Total Recall" Say what you want about America but name me another nation that can do this as of now, hmmmm. See the High Resoulution image and I do mean High Resolution @ http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gall...6a/PIA04995.jpg

Those damn bastards removed the pic from their server while I was half way done downloading it!!! And I have a 56k modem!



Oh and rizen:http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gall.../20040105a.html

Now that they got the rover running, perhaps it can scooter over to the beagle and find out what happened

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