** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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Thanks. Think I might have been a bit premature when I searched. It would be interesting to see what other countries have contributed to the mission from an engineering perspective. They seem to be a bit reluctant to share.
It's a shame the general public don't appreciate the R&D benefits of missions like this.
...was really pleased when I saw it had landed safe and sound.Am really looking forward to what info it sends back over the coming years,and very pleased for all involved that it didnt do a beagle lol 
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Curiosity news briefing in a minute or so...
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/mars/curiosity_news3.html
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/mars/curiosity_news3.html
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Image from hires camera on MRO during descent. Wow...
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Nice clarity on that one. I missed that one while saving the first one.
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In regards to the MRO picture. Is that the first time a probe / rover has been photographed during its descent to a planet?
Soldato
I'm sure there was another one, although not nearly as high resolution as that. Google isn't cooperating with me finding out which one it is, it's all news articles about Curiosity, i'll get back to you...
EDIT: It was Phoenix in 2008:
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Soldato
Just out of curiosity, but how come we don't have a video from the hazcams of the decent? I understand the technological constraints of relaying video data back to earth in real time but doesn't curiosity have some sort of on board memory where it could record the descent, store it to memory then relay it to one of the orbiters when they pass over?
I can only imagine its systems are packed up somehow and don't operate until landed.
Soldato
I believe there was video taken during descent, off the top of my head it would be 4fps continuously after the heatshield came off. We might have to wait a while for a good downlink and time to process.
Soldato
I was wonder why no curiosity rover thread 
Glad I spotted this, God I love this stuff, Wish I hadnt slept through the inital landing though
Damn night shifts
Glad I spotted this, God I love this stuff, Wish I hadnt slept through the inital landing though
Damn night shifts
It is really absolutely amazing. The sky crane just drops Curiosity off too and then flies off, maybe crashing somewhere outside the crater.
I'd say it's a shame it has to just disappear but it's done its job I suppose, and done it very well too.
Soldato
wow that's nuts when you see the crater its in!
been zip on Ustream all day
been zip on Ustream all day
