Mars Insight Lander 18 hrs to go - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Homer J Simpson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2018, 01:07:22 am
content: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/https://www.nasa.gov/

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 26, 2018, 01:25:46 am
content: I'd do a live show for the landing, but I'm banned from doing live shows...

author: vtwin@cox.net
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2018, 02:26:55 am
content: what's the probability the martians will take it out with their death ray before it has a chance to land?

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2018, 05:17:09 am
content: Quote from: vtwin@cox.net on November 26, 2018, 02:26:55 amBah! Now you've jinxed it!

author: IanMacdonald
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2018, 09:28:48 am
content: "Mars InSight is just 24h away from Mars, and on the 26th it wi."...KA-SHUNK!Text gone.AARGH! Dontcha just hate these image sliders on websites? Why the hell do webmasters use them? Do they ever ask site visitors about their experience?

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2018, 09:44:55 am
content: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratoryhttps://www.youtube.com/user/JPLnews

author: Richard RT
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: November 26, 2018, 04:41:56 pm
content: Check out Lockheed Martin's Website today, see if you can see it.We have one of the departments involved with the space frame not far from us, there is a huge Landing party planned for this evening.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2018, 07:55:49 pm
content: Touch down !

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2018, 08:05:39 pm
content: Felicitări! (Congrats!)

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 27, 2018, 12:49:40 am
content: The performance of the two MarCO spacecraft was obviously a big win. The people responsible for that part of the mission also deserve a big thumbs up.

author: DimitriP
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 27, 2018, 01:14:24 am
content: Quote from: rdl on November 27, 2018, 12:49:40 amYou can do a lot more with a thumbs up and a tall stack of $100 bills than you can do with a thumbs up alone (paraphrased from somewhere )

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 27, 2018, 01:23:18 am
content: I see one picture and there is lot of grit on the instrument context camera.https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0000/icc/C000M0000_596533559EDR_F0000_0106M_.PNGPicture is so big I'll leave it as a url.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 27, 2018, 01:37:19 am
content: That's on the dust cover, so no biggie.The dust covers on the two cameras will be removed in the next 2-3 days, so we will soon get some much more interesting images. A question about whether the dust covers could be put back in place to help protect the cameras during dust storms was answered in the negative.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 27, 2018, 01:51:55 am
content: Quote from: Brumby on November 27, 2018, 01:37:19 amSame for Curiosity:https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/z6tz9/how_does_the_mars_curiosity_rover_keep_its_camera/

author: Wan Huang Luo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 27, 2018, 10:06:56 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on November 26, 2018, 01:25:46 amThat's ridiculous and sad. I really enjoyed watching your EEVblog2 channel Ryugu hayabusa lander live-recorded video just last night; it was quite watchable even though it wasn't live anymore.