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Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
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Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
360-degree full-color panorama of Gale Crater from NASA's Image of the Day gallery.

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RE: Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
Let's hope Curosity will last through the 15-20 years her nuclear-thermal generator is capable of keeping her continuously supplied with power.
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RE: Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
(August 10, 2012 at 3:24 pm)Chuck Wrote: Let's hope Curosity will last through the 15-20 years her nuclear-thermal generator is capable of keeping her continuously supplied with power.

Provided the instruments hold up, I would think it should enjoy a nice long life. The power supply and heating system is relatively simple and robust.

I suspect that the reliability of the lander is less of an issue than reliability of funding for ground control.
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RE: Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
Mars looks like Arizona.....
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RE: Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
It's always interesting to me to see these sort of pictures of Mars. Because it looks like any random desert on Earth and you could just walk around in your regular clothes, breathing oxygen and exploring the terrain. Undecided
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RE: Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
(August 10, 2012 at 4:51 pm)Cinjin Wrote: It's always interesting to me to see these sort of pictures of Mars. Because it looks like any random desert on Earth and you could just walk around in your regular clothes, breathing oxygen and exploring the terrain. Undecided

I would guess that wouldn't go so well on Mars. Wink Shades
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RE: Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
How long before the conspiracy nutters come out of the woodwork to argue the whole thing was done in Area 51? (or Arizona)Thinking
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RE: Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
(August 10, 2012 at 9:30 pm)padraic Wrote: How long before the conspiracy nutters come out of the woodwork to argue the whole thing was done in Area 51? (or Arizona)Thinking

They already are Pad, a quick google search yelded this on first result:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...ebris.html
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RE: Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
(August 10, 2012 at 9:30 pm)padraic Wrote: How long before the conspiracy nutters come out of the woodwork to argue the whole thing was done in Area 51? (or Arizona)Thinking

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We have a planet full of fucktards don't we. Undecided
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RE: Full color panorama from Mars lander Curiosity
(August 10, 2012 at 4:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Mars looks like Arizona.....

Nah mate...looks more like Uluru!
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