Mars Science Laboratory turns, rolls, climbs a rock

[johnnyjayramone]

2.5b project and you filmed it with a pocket calculator.

[quakerninja]

Goes up in two weeks yay.

[looksintolasers]

It kinda makes me nervous that they're only sending one of these. The last mission sent two rovers, and they doubled their odds of finding something interesting. When Spirit got shafted by a boring location that looked good from space, it was OK because Opportunity had a sweet-ass layered crater within a few feet of the landing site.

[Georgeqaws]

that is the smallest rock known to man

[MsBobBlob]

Wow, how unoriginal. It's like a really big Spirit/Opportunity. Only this time if you have the "Curiosity" to see what's inside, it will kill you. I wonder how many Spirit/Opportunity models we could have dropped on Mars successfully, for the price of this bomb (literally).

[Boy75402]

@MsBobBlob

If it isn't broken, don't fix it. The suspension system uesd by MER is just fine. That's why they're using it.

MSL will have vastly different capabilities.

If you actually educate yourself on an issue, you won't sound as much an idiot when you comment on it .

Cheers.

[Clarknipolo]

nasa lol

[asswnk]

does it run on duracell? it slow, no! it damn slow

[imarchello]

This thing is HUGE

[AnToNLindforS]

ye thats amazing but can it record?

[farmatyr01]

OMFG it climbs rocks the size of my wrist, good progress NASA!

[Cotoredondo]

Your wrist is 75cm (30 inches) in width??

[pacificguitarist]

oh how i wish i wasn't too tired right now to online bitch slap you farm.

[farmatyr01]

I bet you would slap someone with wrists 30 inches in width.

[Zermix]

It's wierd to belive that this thing is going to Mars :P

[featheredmusic]

@Zermix well not that exact one but yeah it's an outcome of human achievement

[Nionity]

@Zermix And damn it's huge

[gorantz]

@Nionity

i didnt know either they are that big... looks smaller on other videos lol

[subach]

That's one small roll for bot, one giant drive for robot kind.

[jorge10928]

lmao