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Did anyone grab the image with some purple on it in a grid pattern? I didn't get a good look at it.
I saw that too, I don't know what it was. Best guess is, they talked about finding a flat surface to land on, so my guess is that's a grid showing the options.
Looks like the webpage was created by the Mars scientists themselves. They should entrust that job to a web designer.
Scientists were making web pages when you was in diapers, kid. I was there, working at Rockwell in '94.
Great historic event; congratulations to all involved. As for the images, hate to be a party pooper, but wasn't this thing supposed to be state of the art technology? What's with the shitty image quality?
The fact that there were any images at all is a testament to the awesome engineering done on the MSL project. There was no guaranty that any images would be available from the Hazcams. The images were broadcast up to Opportunity orbiting above because the MSL was on the other side of Mars and does not have a direct line to Earth. The Opportunity was also about to go over the horizon so it also was going to lose conta…
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Some of the tracking stations for the project are in Australia, including the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex. Perhaps it's a small contribution but Australia is definitely involved.
According to some tweets I saw, the first images back came through Canberra.
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Space exploration is not a war between "funding" and "they." Consider what you can do in your home or with your friends to advance space exploration instead of cheering on abstract forces with vague connections to real knowledge, drive and accomplishment.
You're sadly mistaken if you think space exploration isn't dependent on funding, and that that funding is in constant danger of being slashed. As far as "what you can do in your home ... to advance space exploration" pretty sure contacting my congresspeople and telling them that funding for NASA is important to me is the best thing I can do.
There are many things you can do to help with space exploration. Get others excited about physics/astronomy/engineering, conduct your own rocket research and involve your family/neighbors, run/participate in distributed projects to quantify and discover items in space. Right now you are not able to see the connection between how you spend your time and what happens at NASA; this is a path to understanding how the collective individual actions of real people make these things happen, happen more often and in a better way.
Certainly also write to your representatives, but please make it personal and not abstract and give it as much weight of experience and knowledge as possible.
In 3D: http://i.imgur.com/PyxeK.jpg Edit: colorized version as it might look on Earth, with significant artistic license taken (the Martian sky is less interesting [0]): http://i.imgur.com/oRCVX.jpg (updated with wheel colors) I've distorted and level adjusted the images to my aesthetic taste, and assembled the rear hazcam images into a stereo pair for RDS-style viewing. Zoom out in your browser or image viewer, get…
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Life imitating art. There was an IAMA on reddit many moons ago by a guy who designed those screens. Obviously they use real life examples and embellish.
I'd be interested to read that; could you edit a link into your comment? My Google-fu is failing me...
Here's a request where a guy pipes up:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kwi3c/iama_request_som...
A guy who did the graphics for Moon
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/f50mf/sci_fi_if_...
But neither are the one I'm thinking of sorry. :(
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You're sadly mistaken if you think space exploration isn't dependent on funding, and that that funding is in constant danger of being slashed. As far as "what you can do in your home ... to advance space exploration" pretty sure contacting my congresspeople and telling them that funding for NASA is important to me is the best thing I can do.
I believe it is dependent on funding and you are doing space exploration harm by abstracting it down to percentages of budgets vaguely spent, as if it's a progress bar in a Zynga game that only needs to be filled. There are many things you can do to help with space exploration. Get others excited about physics/astronomy/engineering, conduct your own rocket research and involve your family/neighbors, run/participate i…
Are you trying to sound like a smug prick?
> There are many things you can do to help with space exploration. Get others excited about physics/astronomy/engineering, conduct your own rocket research ..
Uh, ok. I am not interested in rocket research as an avenue for my own self-education, and I don't have time in my life to "run/participate in distributed projects to quantify and discover items in space." I mean, really dude? Your point seems to be, "If you are not personally building a spaceship, trying to get into outer space, you're hurting NASA!" Get a grip. In the real world, people make time for the things they care about in the spaces between all the things they must do. For those things that don't fit or are difficult to access, we do what we can. "Do everything or do nothing," which you seem to be implying, is not a viable form of advocacy.
> you are not able to see the connection between how you spend your time and what happens at NASA
I didn't know you and I were so personally acquainted. Oh, wait, you're just projecting.
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I'd be interested to read that; could you edit a link into your comment? My Google-fu is failing me...
Close enough: http://jayse.tv/v2/about/ http://jayse.tv/v2/the-work/