Our Mars spacecraft can take photos of our other spacecraft landing on Mars

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   Rogi Riverstone

   August 6, 2012 at 4:11 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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   Thoughts: Curiosity on Mars
   http://youtu.be/XbkkVKBgTr8
   I was going to write an opinion piece about Curiosity, landing on Mars. But others addressed my position better than I, so here they are.
   CREDITS

   Music:
   “Simon Says Don’t”
   By Kevin MacLeod
   http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-
   free/
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   “NASA & Federal Budget”
   – Neil deGrasse Tyson
   http://youtu.be/7i2QDpGRQKc
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   Carl Sagan message to Mars
   http://youtu.be/syVD6blTXN8
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   “Curiosity Land on Mars”
   Final hour here
   http://youtu.be/SJXFnMoMt10
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   FaceBook Screen Captures:
   Native American Culture
   http://www.facebook.com/pages/
   Native-American-Culture
   /119586531411438
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   Curiosity Mission to Mars:
   Your Tax $ @ work

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   The Lorax

   August 7, 2012 at 10:16 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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   We did this with Phoenix back in aught 8 (it’s so cool that I can say ‘aught’… I can’t wait ’till I’m a curmudgeonly old man) and we even got details of the strings connecting the lander to the ‘chute, but that’s likely due to a better lighting angle

   Also, turns out that MRO also captured the heat shield as it was falling away.

   The time it would take for the heat shield to hit the ground after being ejected was a minute and a half. We captured it in mid-air.

   Fuck yeah.