Live Coverage of the Curiosity Mars Landing

[Bromptonboy]

Amazing!

[X]

Looks like oklahoma

[ricdude]

I was thinking more like Utah...

[QuadShot]

Looks like there already is a littering problem on Mars. 

Starbucks is already there?! Where do they not exist?! 


hehe

Well, up til about 2 months ago I'd have said Disneyland...BUT...there's now a LARGE Starbucks inside Disney California Adventure! :)

[ricdude]

In one of the local strip malls, there's a Starbucks in the grocery store, a Starbucks in the bookstore, and I think there's even a Starbucks in the back of the stand-alone Starbucks store...

[Redshirt97]

Some more pictures came back yesterday, amazing!

very geek funny, I saw it on Goggle+

[Redshirt97]

Looks like there already is a littering problem on Mars. 

I saw that on G+ also.  I didnt knwo we have starbuck on Mars, in the case I want a small pike place with cream and sugger.

[davekill]

A strange cloud on Mars seen by NASA's Curiosity rover just after it landed on the Martian surface this week set the Internet buzzing over what it might be. Was it a dust storm? Part of the rover? Martians?

The Martian mystery cloud that was first spotted by Curiosity just 40 seconds after it landed late Sunday night (Aug. 5 PDT).
The cloud was captured  on camera by the rover's rear-facing hazard avoidance cameras (called Hazcams). In images from the same camera taken 45 minutes later revealed "The cloud was gone as if the dust had settled, it just isn't there anymore."

Early speculation by some mission scientists suggested that the cloud could have been dust in the distance, or dust on the clear cover that protected Curiosity's cameras during landing. Now that this mystery has been put to bed, no one seemed to notice the large monolith shaped rock left standing in it's place.

[turtlesrock]

that's just odd...

[Rico]

A nice round up of real images at the link below:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-205_162-10013260.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Looks like there already is a littering problem on Mars. 

Starbucks is already there?! Where do they not exist?! 


hehe

Well, up til about 2 months ago I'd have said Disneyland...BUT...there's now a LARGE Starbucks inside Disney California Adventure! :)

Geez, I'm just waiting for the evil Starbucks empire to start up at this point... ;)

[ChrisMC]

A nice round up of real images at the link below:

This is so wonderful, I could look at a thousand pictures from Mars.

[moyer777]

it is so darn cool.

[davekill]

'Brain and brain, what is brain!'
In case you've been wondering, The Mars Curiosity Rover has completed its brain transplant, upgrading its operating system and apps.

The process lasted a few days and I'm sure the engineers in charge have cheered when the upgrade was finished successfully. Upgrading the software of a computer sitting millions of miles from your desk is not an easy task.
According to NASA, the rover is now "optimized for surface operation", which means that it would be able to start rolling through Mars and use its scientific instruments as soon as it finishes checking its hardware.

http://gizmodo.com/5934801/mars-curiosity-brain-transplant-complete

[billybob476]

'Brain and brain, what is brain!'
In case you've been wondering, The Mars Curiosity Rover has completed its brain transplant, upgrading its operating system and apps.

The process lasted a few days and I'm sure the engineers in charge have cheered when the upgrade was finished successfully. Upgrading the software of a computer sitting millions of miles from your desk is not an easy task.
According to NASA, the rover is now "optimized for surface operation", which means that it would be able to start rolling through Mars and use its scientific instruments as soon as it finishes checking its hardware.

http://gizmodo.com/5934801/mars-curiosity-brain-transplant-complete

I hope they got their iTunes password right the first time!