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NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

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Re: NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

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Post by 2arrs2ells »

Curiosity is the rover for the Mars Science Laboratory, launched 11/26/2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory

Purpose of the MSL is:

* Determine whether Mars could ever have supported life

* Study the climate of Mars

* Study the geology of Mars

* Plan for a human mission to Mars

Re: NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

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Post by simcop2387 »

oofabz wrote: post #4

Is there any way to watch in VLC? I don't have Flash Player.

Not sure if it still works (installing VLC to find out), but try this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDqU2AFhwu8

EDIT: with rtmpdump and mplayer it can be done with the following apparently[1]

  rtmpdump -r "rtmp://cp39920.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live" -a "live" -f "WIN 10,3,183,7" -W "http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.rsl.755.swf" -p "http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html" -y "nasahd@55196" -o - -v | mplayer -
[1] http://stream-recorder.com/forum/play-watch-view-nasa-tv-hd-...;

Re: NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

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Post by ck2 »

If they pull this off I will be thoroughly impressed.

I keep googling to try to find where they tested the landing system altogether as a unit and there doesn't appear to be such an event, only individual components.

Can you imagine designing and testing the individual parts of a car, then assembling it and never testing the car as a whole unit and just hoping based on theory it works?

Re: NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

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Post by seunghomattyang »

Is there anything left to be done by NASA HQ? For example, are they still controlling the trajectory of the probe to Mars or is that mostly done by probe's onboard computers?

I'm genuinely curious about what kind of things the HQ is doing right now. I've been watching the live stream and there's not much activity besides milling around screens and resizing windows on the huge screen.

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