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Tag Archives: Curiosity
JUST TOO COOL: Of Niobids and Rovers
This is simply too cool.
Every once in a while, we find something from antiquity that we knew about but thought lost.
Check this out, from Gazzetta del Sud. Dorothy King’s PhDiva has a lot of photos. With a biretta tip to rougeclassicism. … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Curiosity, Mars Rover, NASA, Niobe, Ovid
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Cool spacey stuff: bouncing on Titan and Martian carwashes
First, The Huygens probe has landed on Saturn’s moon, Titan.
There is a description and animation of how it hit the surface and then bounced, slid and wobbled into its resting position. HERE. Huygens was ferried to Titan by the Cassini … Continue reading
Just Too Cool: Mars Rover Curiosity is checking in using Foursquare
Okay… I don’t think Curiosity is going to have a lot of competition for the mayorship.
Curiosity has a Foursquare account.
Technorati Tags: Curiosity, Foursquare, Mars Rover
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Tagged Curiosity, Foursquare, Mars Rover
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NEW COMET! KABLAM! WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE! (Welllll? We are!)
There is a new and very bright comet out there. Which of course means that it is the end of the world as we know it… maybe. Maybe not. In any event, it should be bright! And we might need … Continue reading
Curiosity’s curious visual odometry system
Here is something for your Just Too Cool file. This got my attention not only because it deals with Curiosity, but also because of my budding interest in ham radio.
The newest Mars Rover, Curiosity, is tagging Mars… with Morse Code.
Curiosity … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Curiosity, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars, Mars Rover, NASA
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A voice from Mars!
And it ain’t Marvin the Martian.
First, here is a very cool hi-def telephoto shot taken by Curiosity, the newest of the Mars rovers.
The image of nearby Mt. Sharp was taken with a 100-millimeter telephoto lens and the 34-milllimeter wide angle … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Curiosity, Mars, Mars Rover
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New Mars Rover images coming in!
The other day I was pretty excited about the safe landing of the new Mars rover Curiosity. The dangerous entry and landing built a real excitement. Then the first images came in. Very cool.
Now that Curiosity has been on the … Continue reading
Watching Curiosity Land. Just Too Cool
This was so cool. I stayed up to watch the landing of the Mars Rover. I felt like a little kid again.
First images:
UPDATE
New photos from Mars Rover Curiositas:
UPDATE:
I watched it again and it gave me goose-flesh, again.
Shorter, of just the … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, JLP, Mars, Marvin the Martian, NASA, rover
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Curiosity to land on Mars TONIGHT!
I plan to watch the live stream of the Curiosity landing tonight.
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If you haven’t seen it yet, here is a video from the JPL about the terrifying landing stage:
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Tagged Curiosity, Mars, Mars Rover
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MARS LANDING SOON! Gravity of Mars is now pulling Curiosity.
From the JPL:
Mars Tugging on Approaching NASA Rover Curiosity
August 04, 2012
PASADENA, Calif. – The gravitational tug of Mars is now pulling NASA’s car-size geochemistry laboratory, Curiosity, in for a suspenseful landing in less than 40 hours. [About 35 as I … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars Rover, rover
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