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Re:So cool - mars landing
Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 01:02 AM CDT
Oh yeah! Beyond cool! The Descent Stage peters out and crashes in a thousand pieces. The rover looks so delicate and spindly. Brilliant minds at work. I hope they thought of everything. Thanks, Kevin.
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.--Lily Tomlin |
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Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 07:00 AM CDT
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Re:So cool - mars landing
Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 12:25 PM CDT
You can get your Curiosity info old school
or Next Gen |
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Re:So cool - mars landing
Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 03:00 PM CDT
I work for Wind River Systems. Our VxWorks Real Time Operating System (RTOS) has been on every Mars lander. Here is my co-worker Mike Deliman's blog on this.
http://blogs.windriver.com/aerospace_defense/vxworks/ |
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Re:So cool - mars landing
Monday, August 06 2012 @ 06:30 AM CDT It's better to regret something you have done, than something you haven't done. |
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Re:So cool - mars landing
Monday, August 06 2012 @ 07:37 AM CDT
i just wept when i saw this!!! i got up in the middle of the night to see if it had landed or not cause i just couldn't STAND it!!! i love this stuff - can't wait to start following the photos! Sounds like there should be photos later today that show the rover with parachute deployed, taken from the orbiter; and others taken during the actual landing!
my latest: "Blind Love (Seeing Heart)-Orchestral Version" |
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Re:So cool - mars landing
Monday, August 06 2012 @ 12:16 PM CDT
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia15980.html
don't see how to embed this - it's the photo of the rover with parachute out, taken from the orbiter - SO COOL!! my latest: "Blind Love (Seeing Heart)-Orchestral Version" |
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Re:So cool - mars landing
Monday, August 06 2012 @ 12:20 PM CDT
My co-worker, Mike Deliman, talking about our RTOS and its part on the Rover.
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Re:So cool - mars landing
Monday, August 06 2012 @ 03:36 PM CDT 
ALIMAR "The Other White Meat" 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 |
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Re:So cool - mars landing
Monday, August 06 2012 @ 04:18 PM CDT
Actual pictures of Curiosity's decent taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The MRO also runs Wind River's VxWorks Operating System. Mike Deliman told me that VxWorks controls everything in Curiosity from takeoff onward. Its not all the software in the rover, but its the underlying Operating System.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19150849 |
