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Mars Rover Curiosity Lands successfully!! LIVE THREAD
Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) ^ | 5 Aug 2012 | JPL

Posted on 08/05/2012 11:04:03 AM PDT by hattend

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To: brityank
Curiosity on the chute heading for a landing.


601 posted on 08/06/2012 9:33:49 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (The LEFT's intolerance of the RIGHT is intolerable.)
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To: brityank

The Eye in the Sky: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter camera snapped this image of the Mars Curiosity Rover and its parachute during landing at Mars. Check out the full gallery at: http://go.nasa.gov/PzSDX6

602 posted on 08/06/2012 9:36:38 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: CitizenM

Fantastic imagery, thank you! Here it is the next day, and what image is still in my mind?... Curiosity sticking her landing, stretching her robotic arms skyward, arching her back and letting go a big, “WOOWOOHOO!!!”

Definitely the best landing of the week! :-)


603 posted on 08/06/2012 9:39:19 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: ClearCase_guy

"You've killed my beloved Phobos ... now I really must blow up the Earth!"

604 posted on 08/06/2012 9:39:51 AM PDT by mikrofon (Mad Marvin)
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To: NCC-1701; hattend

Thanks for the pics, and that link. NASA has stuff spread all over the place!


605 posted on 08/06/2012 10:19:55 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: hattend

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., celebrate the landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on the Red Planet. The rover touched down on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Betting the images and data revealed in the coming days, weeks and months, will be incredible.

606 posted on 08/06/2012 10:50:31 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion or tools of deceit)
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This still from NASA TV shows a photo of the Mars rover Curiosity under its parachute as it landed
on Mars on Aug. 5 PDT, 2012. The photo was taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

607 posted on 08/06/2012 1:06:09 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: hattend

"So... When do I get to drive this one?"...

608 posted on 08/06/2012 1:51:29 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

Just don’t drive it into a ditch!


609 posted on 08/06/2012 1:55:06 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh
Message from Obama:

You didn’t build that Rover.
You didn’t land that.

If it weren't for the ancient martian socialist government that built a landing pad and access road on the very spot where Curiosity came down, they never could have pulled it off.

610 posted on 08/06/2012 6:55:48 PM PDT by MCH
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To: VanDeKoik

It landed. So what do you think now?


611 posted on 08/06/2012 7:06:56 PM PDT by Redcitizen (What's on your end of the world music playlist?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Curiosty bumper sticker- “Looking for your Martian flatcat? Look under my tires. “


612 posted on 08/06/2012 7:11:19 PM PDT by Redcitizen (What's on your end of the world music playlist?)
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To: djf

Spirit indeed gave up the ghost but Opportunity is still working.


613 posted on 08/06/2012 7:16:00 PM PDT by Redcitizen (What's on your end of the world music playlist?)
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Click

614 posted on 08/06/2012 7:46:40 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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615 posted on 08/06/2012 9:59:36 PM PDT by cdnerds
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To: Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh

If they discovered life on Mars, 0bama would be working with Planned Parenthood on a plan to snuff it out.


616 posted on 08/06/2012 10:01:29 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh

If they discovered life on Mars, 0bama would be working with Planned Parenthood on a plan to snuff it out.


617 posted on 08/06/2012 10:01:57 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Fresh Wind

I listened to the same drivel. I think I turned it off due to impending head explosion at the same time you did.


618 posted on 08/07/2012 1:23:52 AM PDT by Two Thirds Vote Aye (I was saying 'I hope he fails' before Rush was.)
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To: Redcitizen

Thank goodness.


619 posted on 08/07/2012 3:40:06 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: dragnet2

The holes on the treads spell out “JPL” in Morse code.


620 posted on 08/07/2012 7:24:18 AM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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