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Mars Rover Curiosity
Science Faction. I posted this vid in Miscellany, but this is scarcely trivial. Here is a catch all thread for this particular Mars Rover. Maybe we can compile a half-assed running commentary on this little episode of interplanetary exploration.
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11-28-2011, 05:07 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
I love how the scientists that work(ed) with the existing Rovers anthropomorphize them. I am excited about the new one, too 
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11-28-2011, 07:57 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
Go, space robot, go! 
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11-28-2011, 09:32 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
Seems like a complex way of landing - lowered by a lanyard from a hovering rocket. Lots that could go wrong there, but let's hope for the best! 
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11-28-2011, 09:45 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
That's an extremely cool animation. I hope it makes it intact!
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11-28-2011, 11:45 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
How is it powered? No solar panels that I could see and the drill and laser would take a fair bit of energy to run, not to mention interplanetary communication.
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11-29-2011, 12:06 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
One of the missions (not widely advertised) of the Curiosity Rover is to look for signs of life on Mars. Specifically, it has been tasked with confirming or disconfirming the existence of Martian Cats. If it finds any cats, Curiosity will kill them. Fact.
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11-29-2011, 12:30 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
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One of the missions (not widely advertised) of the Curiosity Rover is to look for signs of life on Mars. Specifically, it has been tasked with confirming or disconfirming the existence of Martian Cats. If it finds any cats, Curiosity will take pictures and put hilariously mispelled captions describing ludicrously anthropomorphised actions they are performing. Fact.
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11-29-2011, 12:53 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
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One of the missions (not widely advertised) of the Curiosity Rover is to look for signs of life on Mars. Specifically, it has been tasked with confirming or disconfirming the existence of Martian Cats. If it finds any cats, Curiosity will take pictures add hilariously mispelled captions describing ludicrously anthropomorphised actions they are performing and then kill them. Fact.
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11-29-2011, 12:58 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
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How is it powered? No solar panels that I could see and the drill and laser would take a fair bit of energy to run, not to mention interplanetary communication.
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Radioisotope thermoelectric generator fueled with plutonium.
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11-29-2011, 01:20 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
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Originally Posted by Angakuk
One of the missions (not widely advertised) of the Curiosity Rover is to look for signs of life on Mars. Specifically, it has been tasked with confirming or disconfirming the existence of Martian Cats. If it finds any cats, Curiosity will take pictures add hilariously mispelled captions describing ludicrously anthropomorphised actions they are performing and then weep as they die from asphyxiation because there's no oxygen on Mars. Fact.
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11-29-2011, 01:42 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
Why you so mad? I said thank you.
BTW, Martian Cats, if any such creatures exist, are adapted to breathing the atmosphere of Mars. Fact. Duh!
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11-29-2011, 11:07 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
So, we're putting nukes on another planet, are we?
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11-29-2011, 04:25 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
Yup. Also, there are plans for a nuclear waste disposal site on the moon. That way it will be in everyone's back yard.
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11-29-2011, 07:19 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
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Srs question: what happens to all the bits jettisoned from around the actual Rover itself? - Launch vehicle - presumably already burnt up in Earth's atmosphere
- Cruise stage (disc with solar panels, detaches at 1:00 in video) - will this burn up in Mars's atmosphere?
- Heat shield (2:01) - by definition, this detaches too low to burn up so presumably lands on the surface of Mars
- Backshell (and parachute) (2:12) - ditto
- Descent stage (rocket powered lander) (3:15) - ditto
- Plus a number of little mass jettisons at various altitudes
I think Ensign Steve as the First Voter on Mars™ (in 30 years' time) should start the "Keep Mars Clean" campaign before it gets any worse.
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11-29-2011, 07:20 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
Might I suggest the slogan "Keep Mars Red"
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11-29-2011, 07:20 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
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11-29-2011, 07:22 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
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Might I suggest the slogan "Keep Mars Red"
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Might I suggest the US government, responsible for most of the mess so far, would be negatively influenced by that?
I can see ES chanting it though.
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11-30-2011, 07:13 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
ES, that was beautiful. I am all verklempt here. Poor little Rover.
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
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So, we're putting nukes on another planet, are we?
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11-30-2011, 02:13 PM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
 Everybody knows I don't vote.
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12-07-2011, 03:12 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
Waiting for August. 
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12-07-2011, 03:44 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
I've been trying to understand how fast the cruising speed is but I'm confused. I've read that it travels about 5k mph, but also that it's going to traverse 362 million miles in 8.5 months. 
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12-07-2011, 03:47 AM
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Re: Mars Rover Curiosity
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