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I just read this from Nasa's website:
So it looks like we'll be getting high quality images soon.
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http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4214
Welcome to Mars!
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I just read this from Nasa's website:
So it looks like we'll be getting high quality images soon.
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silentthunder
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I just read this from Nasa's website:
So it looks like we'll be getting high quality images soon.
Source:
Code:http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4214
Can't wait for higher rez!!
Paranoid Android
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found little martians yet?
wasn't there a vehicle that was sent to mars some 10 years ago? whats this vehicle looking for this time? carbon based life or calcium fossils?
wasn't there a vehicle that was sent to mars some 10 years ago? whats this vehicle looking for this time? carbon based life or calcium fossils?
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Electronics transmissions in a vacuum travel at the speed of light - which is pretty %&!%#$^& fast.
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Found this worth sharing.
The earth is an average of 8.3 light-minutes from the sun (take an average distance of 93 million miles, divided by 186,000 miles per second). Mars is an average of 1.5 times further from the sun than earth is.
So at its closest approach to earth (neglecting the fact that the orbits are not circles, since we're talking averages), Mars is 1.5 - 1.0 = 0.5 times the distance of earth to the sun, or 4.15 light-minutes. At its farthest approach to earth, Mars is 1.5 + 1.0 = 2.5 times the distance of earth to sun, or 20.8 light-minutes. The answer is someplace in between.
The simplistic approach is to take the average of 20.8 and 4.1 and you'll get 12.5 light-minutes. So it will take you, "on average", 12.5 minutes to reach Mars travelling at the speed of light.
The HiRISE team has outdone themselves this time. Using their incredible instrument, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, they have captured an absolutely amazing. image of the Curiosity rover, descending on a parachute through Mars? atmosphere.
?Nailed it!? Tweeted Christian Schaller of the HiRISE team. ?My goodness, @MarsCuriosity you look pretty.?
The earth is an average of 8.3 light-minutes from the sun (take an average distance of 93 million miles, divided by 186,000 miles per second). Mars is an average of 1.5 times further from the sun than earth is.
So at its closest approach to earth (neglecting the fact that the orbits are not circles, since we're talking averages), Mars is 1.5 - 1.0 = 0.5 times the distance of earth to the sun, or 4.15 light-minutes. At its farthest approach to earth, Mars is 1.5 + 1.0 = 2.5 times the distance of earth to sun, or 20.8 light-minutes. The answer is someplace in between.
The simplistic approach is to take the average of 20.8 and 4.1 and you'll get 12.5 light-minutes. So it will take you, "on average", 12.5 minutes to reach Mars travelling at the speed of light.
The HiRISE team has outdone themselves this time. Using their incredible instrument, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, they have captured an absolutely amazing. image of the Curiosity rover, descending on a parachute through Mars? atmosphere.
?Nailed it!? Tweeted Christian Schaller of the HiRISE team. ?My goodness, @MarsCuriosity you look pretty.?
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Amazing...