Curiosity's First Color Panaroma of Gale Crater, Mars | Video

Close up view of the the first color 360° panorama delivered by the Mars Science Laboratory rover. Mike Malin, Curiosity MAST camera Principle Investigator, highlights the imagery.

[VideoFromSpace]

this is an international website and forum. people can reply in any language they like.

[Turbobe]

So on Mars with a little lander (4T) with 4 rockets they managed to form craters from their plumes, and on the Moon the Apollo missions with the massive LEM (14T) and a single rocket engine did not even make a scratch on the surface... This is probably the best curiosity of this mission.

[JimmMyHero]

why is the resolution the smallest size you could think of?

[VideoFromSpace]

We're all spoiled by living with protected, fast computers on a safe planet below an atmosphere with a ubiquitous internet and telephone system. Mars images are limited by the power it takes to transmit them across interplanetary distance, the rad-hard data processing on-board the rover's CPU(s), and the data storage in the rover and on the relay satellites (MRO, Mars Odyssey...). There's no broadband provider on Mars...yet.

[bossmreturns]

Anyone explain how long it takes to transfer data as pictures from mars to earth, and how ?

Im amateur, but just wondering, cuz it's so damn far :|

[jackappan]

Can u put a microphone in the rover.please.we want to listen

[Lo_gan_G]

Will NASA be releasing any sound clips from Mars?

Or does Curiosity have mics installed?

[CharmingLordSausage]

Am I right in thinking that Curiosity carries sensors to detect both bio produced methane and geologically produced methane? Having an ability to distinguish between the two means this mission is going to be revelatory!

[TheStockwell]

No. There was no rocket that "took the thing to mars." The Atlas launch vehicle that sent the MSL into space separated from it in Earth orbit, sending just the MSL to Mars. So, there was never any "rocket" to use as a relay. Smart question, though!

[times]

The panorama picture is on google mars now, just like the panorama's of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers!

[aaaaaaa]

is mars usa property now that they've landed first

[rai]

we wont be going there any time soon, hopefully by that time, we've have some sense

[GeekTalkwithMerg]

is the rocket that took the thing to mars still orbiting the planet? they could have easily used that as a relay for the rover's transmissions, and had all the power theyd need to beam data back. they also could have put a satellite in orbit of the moon to assist with such transmissions. if they anticipated communications issues, why not address them with solutions?

[Stringbean]

Skip to 1.15 to get straight to the images.

[ELohEL]

It's only a matter of time now before we find that prothean beacon :3

[lastannahme]

Dude - if there'd be one reason I'd have the absurd wish to be immortal - it would be to see what humanity will find out there!

[jonyofgeto]

Bravo, odlicni ste
BEOGRAD, blokovi...
NASA is GREAT, Space is smoll

[VideoFromSpace]

OK, we're calling BS here. The only farce is your insistence that there must be some vast government conspiracy. There isn't. It's just science, dude. No military, no spies, no cover-ups. Find your kicks in fiction.

[واحدناس-غج]

justice from God :)

Thanx for those video about Curiosity.

[LondonDada]

Considering Mars atmosphere is x 100 less dense than earth, the sky should be very dark. Also a 'chute would be pretty well useless to slow anything down at higher levels of atmosphere where it must be a near vacuum.
The Skycrane rocket plumes dug trenches in the surface down to the bedrock, yet on the moon there was no crater left by the much bigger LM descent rocket.
And yet and yet.. these guys seem relaxed and there's no evidence to the contrary, that Curiosity is in fact on the red planet.