Sunday Things - emergency Mars edition

posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday August 5 2012

Following a vast journey across unfathomable emptiness, a lone explorer shall survey the empty, potentially lifeless wastes of ... Canada?

In case they don't have the intertubes in Canadaland, here's an EMERGENCY SUNDAY THINGS, prepped and launched some time prior to Sunday, its eventual arrival now fully automated.

MRO can transmit data to Earth at up to 6Mb/s. THAT'S FOUR TIMES BETTER THAN ADSL IN RURAL DERBYSHIRE.
Grand Canyon of Gale Crater - part of a grand selection of HiRISE images around Gale Crater, landing site of the Mars Science Laboratory rover, a.k.a. Curiosity. When's it landing? Today! Or tomorrow, if you're east of the central USA.

Looking for a good place for up-to-the-minute news, discussion and occasional insider information? Try the Unmanned Spaceflight forums. Go Curiosity!

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I HOPE IT WORKS I HOPE IT WORKS I HOPE IT WORKS.

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1. \o/

Posted by Cargo Cult at 10:43PM, Sunday August 5 2012

SUCCESSFUL LANDING. WOO!!!!

(Now, the science.)

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2. Science

Posted by chiasaur11 at 11:31AM, Tuesday August 7 2012

Thank heavens Wheatley is busy with the ISS.

Hate to think what he'd do to Mars.

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