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PSA: Mars Rover Curiosity Landing! 08/05/2012 10:31 PDT...

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Zim Hosein said:
"Seven Minutes of Terror" was only 5 minutes and change! 😛

Seriously though, there really is zero margin for error! 😱 Watching that video just makes me think of all the things that could go wrong... but hey if it doesn't go as planned they'll just re-shoot the scene! :sneaky:

Thanks for the linky BUTCH1! :beer;
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OK welcome, I guess the "terror" is not knowing for around 15 minutes if NASA has just blown 2.5 billion in development and launching of this craft, it's the largest by far of any autonomous machine ever to land (hopefully) on another planet..
 
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BUTCH1 said:
Here's a great youtube vid. "Seven minutes of terror"...http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ISmWAyQxqqs
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holy shite... Anita Sengupta at 2:30 & 4:00 in that video... she was in my class in HS... friends on FB... I just checked her FB details - she works with JPL?! All I ever see is pics of her traveling the world... I had no idea she worked for f'n NASA.

50,000 lines of code... oy vey. What has a greater chance of failure? Software code or mechanical stuff?
 
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rh71 said:
holy shite... Anita Sengupta at 2:30 & 4:00 in that video... she was in my class in HS... friends on FB... I just checked her FB details - she works with JPL?! All I ever see is pics of her traveling the world... I had no idea she worked for f'n NASA.

50,000 lines of code... oy vey. What has a greater chance of failure? Software code or mechanical stuff?
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She sewed that killer parachute by hand probably... 🙄
 
BUTCH1 said:
She sewed that killer parachute by hand probably... 🙄
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obviously that's not what I meant... in her FB posting she even used "we" when talking about it. I just find it amazing that some small ass town could develop someone who goes and "makes a difference". Hell most people don't know someone who's been on national tv before and this week that happened twice (Olympics).
 
rh71 said:
obviously that's not what I meant... in her FB posting she even used "we" when talking about it. I just find it amazing that some small ass town could develop someone who goes and "makes a difference". Hell most people don't know someone who's been on national tv before and this week that happened twice (Olympics).
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I was JK, glad your friend is doing well.
 
Number1 said:
I watched this video and at about 21 sec the following line apears:

500,000 LINES
OF COD3

??? COD3 ?????

Uh Oh, suddenly, this mission becomes much more problematic in my mind.......

NASA Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) Mission Animation [HDx1280]
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Yup. one typo could fuck it all up, I remember the one that burned up in the atmosphere because someone didn't convert kilos to miles and the entry trajectory was borked or the 1971 Russian probe where the timer to send it out of earth orbit and to mars was inadvertently set to 1.5 YEARS instead of 1.5 hours after liftoff, the probe's orbit decayed and it came home in a fireball!...
 
rh71 said:
holy shite... Anita Sengupta at 2:30 & 4:00 in that video... she was in my class in HS... friends on FB... I just checked her FB details - she works with JPL?! All I ever see is pics of her traveling the world... I had no idea she worked for f'n NASA.

50,000 lines of code... oy vey. What has a greater chance of failure? Software code or mechanical stuff?
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50k, or 500k?

At work, we've got a system that counts cars entering a parking garage, and communicates that information to signs for display. I think that's got almost 10k lines of C in it - and it's just counting cars.This landing system is quite a lot more complex. 🙂
 
I wonder if this is a success what will become of opportunity, guess they don't need it anymore if they have this one. Probably will shut it down.
 
DCal430 said:
I wonder if this is a success what will become of opportunity, guess they don't need it anymore if they have this one. Probably will shut it down.
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Heck no. They're on very different parts of the planet. Just because your Australian Outback rover is more advanced than your Himalayas rover, you're not going to shut down the old one.
 
Jeff7 said:
50k, or 500k?

At work, we've got a system that counts cars entering a parking garage, and communicates that information to signs for display. I think that's got almost 10k lines of C in it - and it's just counting cars.This landing system is quite a lot more complex. 🙂
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oops missed a 0 it's 500,000 lines. Most I've ever done by myself was 3k over a couple months. Collaboration can't be all that fun either.
 
hmmm

any chance this new rover might provide ambient audio recordings to be transmitted back to earth?
 
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