How The Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars (NASA Video)

[75Plus]

Curiosity Rover in headed for Mars. This animation shows how it will (hopefully) land.

http://www.wimp.com/curiosityrover

Joe

[sparky961]

Didn't I see a build log somewhere here for that rover?

Thanks for sharing the link.  I would love to know how many hundreds of thousands of dollars (of taxpayers' money) were spent on making the pretty animation!

-Sparky

[Rob.Wilson]

Nice one Joe 

Its ALLOT  bigger than i thought it would be    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/images/20081113_msl.html  .


Rob

[Powder Keg]

Looks expensive and complicated. Thanks for sharing.

~Wes~

[Lew_Merrick_PE]

I would feel a whole lot more confident if Joe Cassidy was on the team that did the design/development of the landing system.  This is another wonderment from the kids at JPL who multiplied g's times kg (forgetting to convert to m/sē) to come up with Newtons a few years back.  On the other hand, my hypergolic fuel pump seems to be working well...

[Rob.Wilson]

  On the other hand, my hypergolic fuel pump seems to be working well...

Hi Lew ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and whats dose one of those look like   


Rob

[Joules]

Lets hope it doesn't go like a Beagle...

[Lew_Merrick_PE]

  On the other hand, my hypergolic fuel pump seems to be working well...

Hi Lew ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and whats dose one of those look like   

I was not allowed to keep any of the pictures or video of the development work.  There was a really neat video of the first plume test which was done a bit after midnight in the field where the company I was doing work for performed such tests.  It was a 15 foot long bright white plume coming out of a 2.5 inch diameter thrust motor...

[BillTodd]

That's a long retro 'burn'  ( I really hope someone a has programmed a few bogus '1202' errors just to keep the bowels loose at mission control  )

Fingers-crossed that it all goes well - if it's only half as successful as Spirit and Opportunity it'll still be a fantastic achievement