How the Curiosity Mars Rover Will Land and Navigate
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Uploaded by spectrummag on Jan 4, 2011
Steven Lee, the guidance, navigation, and control manager for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., describes how NASA plans to land and navigate its new Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars in 2012. Read more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/robotic-exploration/planetary-rovers-are-w...
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Why is there no videos of testing the Mars landing engines??
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where are the solar panels? or does it run on diesel...
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They could've sent a team of astronauts and actually did something worth the money. This rover isn't anymore useful than any other rover
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"Houston, Curiosity has landed."
"Roger. Now what do you guys wanna do?"
"......I guess go check out that rock over there?"
"Roger. Then what?"
"Ummmmm....god I don't know there's not much there is there :\"
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Technology!
Seen the test run on Earth.
Should work. Go NASA!!!
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@mrteemumilto lol the proof will be seen in August.
Cant wait!
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@Huantans Why didn't they test run in Earth atmosphere, even partially?
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@mrteemumilto this is the first time the skycrane is used. proof? tech is not like math where a solution could be found. But if you read stuffs, retrorocket is nothing new. before they put it at the landing base, now they hand it on top. the only difference is the wiring mechanism to lower the rover down and cut the cable. But this extra complication is offset by not having a ramp and cramp the whole system in a small space of the aeroshell.
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There is no proof online that this landing mechanism works. There are only a couple of animations of it.
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RICKY1726 3 months ago 17
@ugod987 The power source will actually last 14 years, the one year is merely the rovers life expectancy. Keep in mind that the Sojourner rover lasted much longer than expected, and the MER rovers lasted 6 years longer than expected. As for the landing site I can't help you. As for cutting funding - people like you are the reason NASA has not put a man on mars yet.
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