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| Thread ID: 126093 | 2012-08-06 07:16:00 | Mars lander is down | Jayess64 (8703) | PC World Chat |
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| 1293235 | 2012-08-06 07:16:00 | Seems like they've been and done it. Curiosity is down in one piece, and they are in the process of "handing the keys from the lander team to the science team". | Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1293236 | 2012-08-06 07:19:00 | Yeeeeehar! Awesome bit of science just in getting it there... and now the investigative science begins. Anybody know what Curiosity is packing in terms of equipment? |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1293237 | 2012-08-06 08:35:00 | Seems that there is a lot of planning and preparation before the landing. Everything has to be right beforehand as they have no control over it during the landing. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1293238 | 2012-08-06 08:48:00 | Seems that there is a lot of planning and preparation before the landing. Everything has to be right beforehand as they have no control over it during the landing. Who would have guessed? :D :clap |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1293239 | 2012-08-06 08:50:00 | pressf1.pcworld.co.nz :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1293240 | 2012-08-06 09:24:00 | Anybody know what Curiosity is packing in terms of equipment? A little flag that pops out saying "We come in Peace" :D OR This maybe (laughingsquid.com) :eek: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1293241 | 2012-08-06 10:06:00 | An amazing achievement !! With all the steps it had to do to get on the ground - many of which were untried apart from computer simulations. All it would have taken was for one step to go slightly wrong or very wrong to be a wreck on the surface (to join the other wrecks) , or burn up on approach or skip the atmosphare and bounce off into space. Yet the got it just right (not sure about the exact landing area yet). Anybody know what Curiosity is packing in terms of equipment? - Mast Camera (Mastcam) - Chemistry & Camera (ChemCam) - Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) - Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) - Chemistry & Mineralogy (CheMin) - Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) - Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) - Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) - Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) - Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) - MSL EDL Instrument (MEDLI) Suite •Length: 10 feet (3 meters) •Width: 9 feet (2.7 meters) •Height: 7 feet (2.2 meters) •Mass: 1,982 pounds (899 kilograms) •Processor: ◦radiation-hardened central processor with PowerPC 750 Architecture: a BAE RAD 750 ◦operates at up to 200 megahertz speed, 10 times the speed in Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity's computers •Memory: ◦2 gigabytes of flash memory (~8 times as much as Spirit or Opportunity) ◦256 megabytes of dynamic random access memory ◦256 kilobytes of electrically erasable programmable read-only memory |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1293242 | 2012-08-06 10:55:00 | What? No Norton? They're doomed! | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1293243 | 2012-08-06 11:20:00 | What? No Norton? They're doomed!That required to much usage on their 200MHz cpu and 256Mb Ram :). You would kinda think they would use something with a bit more grunt in this day and age. Maybe not an i7 but a bit faster than that anyway. I guess they use that for minimal power consumption - even though it has a nuclear reactor on board. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1293244 | 2012-08-06 11:20:00 | surely they could've put an i7, 32gig ram and an SSD or two in there :D | GameJunkie (72) | ||
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