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NASA photographs split second when Curiosity enters Mars airspace
Fox news ^ | August 6, 2012 | Foxnews

Posted on 08/06/2012 3:44:40 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer

Thanks to a remarkable combination of engineering and mathematics, a NASA satellite in orbit around Mars was able to capture this picture of the split second when Curiosity fell from the skies to its successful landing on the surface of the red planet.

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KEYWORDS: curiosity; mars; marslanding; marsrover; nasa
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1 posted on 08/06/2012 3:44:45 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

That’s pretty damn cool I don’t care who you are.


2 posted on 08/06/2012 3:48:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Vince Ferrer
Thanks to a remarkable combination of engineering and mathematics


3 posted on 08/06/2012 3:49:12 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (At what point does an escalated effort to remove this traitor commence, and what form does it take?)
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To: Vince Ferrer

remarkable. Hope they find something of interest.


4 posted on 08/06/2012 3:49:52 PM PDT by brivette
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To: Vince Ferrer
How long before we see a political ad explaining 0bamas single handed trip to Mars?
5 posted on 08/06/2012 3:51:41 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: EGPWS

Obama may retire there after November.


6 posted on 08/06/2012 3:54:31 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Vince Ferrer
Great pic!

The NASA gallery with more pics can be found here.

7 posted on 08/06/2012 3:57:56 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: Jyotishi

I’d contribute to send him there on a one way ticket.

No parachute though. Sorry, I can only afford so much.

All we need is an orbiter capable of spitting him out.


8 posted on 08/06/2012 3:58:12 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Nope 2012)
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To: Vince Ferrer

I honestly didn’t think NASA could pull it off anymore. I’m so pleased to be wrong.


9 posted on 08/06/2012 3:58:43 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: cripplecreek

For sure. I for one am proud of America on this one.


10 posted on 08/06/2012 3:58:52 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (HEY UNION MEMBER: INVEST IN YOUR OWN DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A CHANGE!)
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To: cripplecreek

Well I don’t care who you are either, but I agree with you.

;^)


11 posted on 08/06/2012 3:59:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Nope 2012)
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12 posted on 08/06/2012 4:00:58 PM PDT by ZinGirl
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To: Vince Ferrer

If we had not spent so much money on LBJ’s Great Society programs(black reparations), we would be landing MEN on Mars.

Great Photo.


13 posted on 08/06/2012 4:01:42 PM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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I honestly didn’t think NASA could pull it off anymore.

I didn't think it would be able to pull off the Sky Crane, powered fight part.

Happy to say...."I was wrong"!

14 posted on 08/06/2012 4:02:37 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: JusPasenThru

The Dawn Spacecraft is due to leave asteroid Vesta soon and will be heading for Ceres.

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Juno still has at least a year to its destination orbiting Jupiter.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html

I personally am most looking forward to the New Horizons flyby of Pluto in 2015.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/


15 posted on 08/06/2012 4:03:49 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek
That’s pretty damn cool I don’t care who you are.

Indeed it is. Seeing that rocket-powered flying sky crane landing system operate flawlessly the first time out more than makes up for the metric mishap that killed an earlier lander.

16 posted on 08/06/2012 4:07:44 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Balding_Eagle
JPL’s known for some pretty hair brained ideas, that have a tenancy to not only be thinking outside the box, but actually work as well. Am I surprised that the skycrane worked? No. Or the parachute? No.

Am I dumbfounded in awe at being able to hit the all time smallest bullseye? Absolutely. Yeah, the rest of the stuff was cool, relaying stuff through satellites, taking pictures of Curiosity after parachute deployment - all pretty nifty. But even hurling a smart bullet to hit their injection window of just a few miles across while travelling over 12,000 miles an hour? That's over 3 miles a second.

Miss that, it doesn't matter what whizbang stuff you've got stowed away, it will be doing a bang up impression of the Beagle.

Now, if only they could get that stupid NASA sign off of my Caltech/JPL.

19 posted on 08/06/2012 4:12:09 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: EGPWS

I don’t know about that, but the usual suspects are already crawling out from under their rocks with the same 40-year-old mantra: “working poor”, “dying in the streets”, “evil companies laid them off”, “can’t pay their bills”, the usual left-wing verbal diarrhea.


20 posted on 08/06/2012 4:12:12 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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