NASA Mars Landing Rover -- Spirit

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Images are reported to come in 10 mins!

They are in! A bunch of them are being shown on a screen being shown on the NASA tv feed.

I'll post when they get posted to a website somewhere.

They are right near a big rock, so they will be able to get right to work.
They also got some imagry from when it was decending. I wanna see that one more closely.

Screen shot of the images.


I attached the image, the image host is toast already.

Wetzel

[sanddrag]

I'm watching. It's absolutely incredible. It's on Fox News too. I took some screen captures fromt he webcast.

EDIT: Screen Captures don't work.

EDIT2: Pictures Are Here!
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040104image1.html
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040104image2.html
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040104image3.html
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040104image5.html

[Wetzel]

(edit)

Something goofy happened with the editpost screen. Sanddrag has uploaded the same images I have.

Wetzel

[sanddrag]

Aww heck, there's too many people viewing. Here they are attatched.

[sanddrag]

In that circular looking picture (on the left of my attatchments), I don't really get how that picture was taken. Could someone explain?

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

In that circular looking picture (on the left of my attatchments), I don't really get how that picture was taken. Could someone explain?

It is a panorama picture taken from the mast cam.

The camera went in circles, stoping every so often to take a picture(looks about 10 pictures time), then it was stiched together here on Earth.

Just like the attached image.

Wetzel

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

It is a panorama picture taken from the mast cam.

The camera went in circles, stoping every so often to take a picture(looks about 10 pictures time), then it was stiched together here on Earth.

Just like the attached image.

Wetzel

Danget, we both keep posting the same things. I edited mine above before you edited yours.

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Danget, we both keep posting the same things. I edited mine above before you edited yours.

Yup. We both are getting things from here.
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html

I'll pull images as they show up, because they are slashdotted pretty fast.

Current status of the rover is 24 megabits data recieved, two way link has worked using Odessy as a relay (first satellite commuications network around another planet!), the rover is only at a 2 degree tilt, and all systems show green(another first). Currently in a power saving state, it is ready to go tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow they plan to deploy the high gain attenna.


Wetzel

[Wetzel]

An image taken durring the landing!


Has anyother lander done this from this height? This is the most amazing picture to me.


Wetzel

[FotoPlasma]

A friend of mine from team 192 was over, earler tonight, along with another member of 258. We decided to watch some of the goings on, on CNN. While watching a live feed from some control center or another, I immediately recognized the back of Dave Lavery's head, shortly before the front of it. I identified him to everyone in the room (mother, sister, two friends), and then thought it was particularly cool to see him.

Mucho congrats to Dave, all of NASA, and everyone else involved. It's great stuff, to say the very least.

[IMDWalrus]

Makes me wish I hadn't fallen asleep last night...

Congratulations to Dave and everyone else at NASA. Now, we've just got to hope that Opportunity manages to survive its landing as well.

[shyra1353]

Originally Posted by IMDWalrus

Makes me wish I hadn't fallen asleep last night...

same here .. definitely wish i could have seen this ...

this is what FIRST is all about .. knowing the engineers that design and launch missions like such .. congratulations to everyone involved !!

[Madison]

This made me smile.

[Wetzel]

JPL has 5 images on its website now. They are located here.


This image taken by the hazard avoidance camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the rover's rear lander petal and, in the background, the Martian horizon. Spirit took the picture right after successfully landing on the surface of Mars


Wetzel

[J Flex 188]

ive gotta say, that picture has to be one of the most interesting pictures ive seen from a rover, not just spirit today but viking and so on.. it looks like a piece of great artistic photography = T

here's hoping that opportunity shares the same success, and that hopefully beagle 2 is just going out for a walk.

Originally Posted by Wetzel

This image taken by the hazard avoidance camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the rover's rear lander petal and, in the background, the Martian horizon. Spirit took the picture right after successfully landing on the surface of Mars


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