mars landing

[chopov]

I read somewhere, that photo was taken through a transparent dust cover on the lens, which istn't taken off yet.

[TruthfulLiar]

wait, what

canted slope, always?

bullshit

[GONNAFISTYA]

srsly?

wherever you stand on mars, you're facing downhill.

I srsly lolled at this.

[xer0s]

srsly?

[Transient]

Yeah, the planet is crooked.

[seremtan]

Curiosity needs a special handbrake to stop it rolling off the edge of Mars

[Tsakali]

/changes channel

[Whiskey 7]

......... I'd pay 5-10 grand for a sit before I'd have to reevaluate my enthusiasm on the issue.

What would you pay realistically?

I'd pay that much, but given these low Earth orbital flights take approx, 15 - 30 minutes it would be a quick trip.

For the same $5k dollars today you can jump in an aircraft and experience weightlessness. Not the same though
click

Current cost (?) ; Virgin Galactic in Vehicle: SpaceShipTwo; Price; $200,000 per passenger

[Eraser]

srsly?

wherever you stand on mars, you're facing downhill.

ffs

[Doombrain]

Heads up

[xer0s]

Input! Innnput!

[Transient]

[bitWISE]

[lvlshot]http://www.uahirise.org/images/2012/details/cut/mt-sharp-oblique.jpg[/lvlshot]

"Amazing High Resolution Photo from the HiRISE Camera on MRO of the Central Mound of Mt. Sharp taken 24 Hours after the MSL Landed "

[xer0s]

Central mound

[menkent]

that instant-stick-communicator is pretty funny. minimum distance from earth to mars is 54600000km. let's say the stick has a mass of 1kg per 100m (a very light stick, as these things go). Can you imagine the force required to even jiggle a 546 million kilogram stick? For comparison, that's about 75x the mass of the Eiffel Tower.

edit: also not sure about the physics of that sort of thing but I assume the entire stick wouldn't move as one piece... more likely some sort of wave propagating along it.

[obsidian]

"Amazing High Resolution Photo from the HiRISE Camera on MRO of the Central Mound of Mt. Sharp taken 24 Hours after the MSL Landed "

Wish I had a bunch of monitors arranged next to each other to use that as a wallpaper.

[seremtan]

^ this

NASA have given no thought whatsoever to the desktop market

[Tsakali]

that's big enough to print, I might just do that.

[Whiskey 7]

[lvlshot] large image Thanks [/lvlshot]

"Amazing High Resolution Photo from the HiRISE Camera on MRO of the Central Mound of Mt. Sharp taken 24 Hours after the MSL Landed "

Bottom left and elsewhere colours/texture patterns look like water doesn't it

[seremtan]

it isn't water

[Tsakali]

[xer0s]

Awesome.

[Plan B]

360 panoramic

[GONNAFISTYA]

360 panoramic

That's not the same rover, you cyster-humping douchebag.

[seremtan]

^ awesome

and no, obviously it's not the same rover

derp