'Curiosity' - NASA Mars Rover - Due to land 5th Aug 2012

[Stu R]

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!

[mrmr96]

OMFG WE'VE DONE IT!!!!!!!

[Chilli]

Waiting for images....so they have got cameras?

[TheHeretic]

Bugger me... They did it.

[MiniMan64]

Damm I wish they had a camera on it to get that!

[mrmr96]

Just received a thumbnail image - A PHOTO OF THE WHEEL ON THE SURFACE!!

[Chilli]

Wpuldn't it be brilliant if the first image cam back of a little green Martian looking straight into the camera??!!!

[mrmr96]

Image 1 thumb:

[bob1179]

Absolutely fantastic! One of the greatest achievements of this century so far. An absolutely amazing feat of engineering.

[mrmr96]

Image 1 higher res and image 2:

UNREAL!!

[marksx]

Absolutely brilliant!

[FunkyNige]

mrmr96 said:

Image 1 higher res and image 2:

They were pretty lucky Odyssey was overhead to stream those back minutes after it landed!

Great achievement.

[Asterix]

Fantastic - just got into the office, fired up the laptop, opened Outlook and then Explorer - remembered I'd saved the Nasa link - clicked on it, and we had five minutes to the landing.

Absolutely incredible. Seeing the images as well...

Brilliant.

[Stu R]

Seeing those images has made my day

[MiniMan64]

FunkyNige said:

mrmr96 said:

Image 1 higher res and image 2:

They were pretty lucky Odyssey was overhead to stream those back minutes after it landed!

Great achievement.

I'm not entirely sure that it was just luck that put it there!

[Asterix]

Inspirational.

[TheHeretic]

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the images. What is the highest res the cameras can transmit?

[Olf]

Top notch. Really looking forward to this after following the last two avidly. Yanks do such good self congratulation too don't they?

[MiniMan64]

TheHeretic said:

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the images. What is the highest res the cameras can transmit?

Proper images by Wednesday/Thursday didn't they?

[Use Psychology]

'we are the only country that has landed surface landers on any other planet' says obama's science advisor.

bullst

let's hope he's a bit more familiar with science.