Mars rover's "6 minutes of hell" 'R over

[ET_]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

It'd be a real shame to leave the glitch in that link.

NASA Calls It A Mission As Curiosity Rover Fills Up Whole 2-Gigabyte Memory Card

The last update on JPL is from Aug. 11th... Everything seems still operational, apart from the "brain transplant" related o the new software routines. Did I miss anything?

Luigi

[firejuggler]

it's the Onion... take it with... a massive amount of salt.

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by firejuggler

it's the Onion... take it with... a massive amount of salt.

I looked up the exact title and then took out onion in url or text and came up with 13 results. but I don't think any have weight.

[ewmayer]

Thanks to cheesehead for correcting my link-fubarization of this important news story.

So will the problem be resolved once they manage to transmit the data on the memory card safely back to earth, allowing them to free it back up?

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

So will the problem be resolved once they manage to transmit the data on the memory card safely back to earth, allowing them to free it back up?

Seems to be...

29K by 4K synthetic (stitched panorama) image. Coolness!!!

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by ET_

The last update on JPL is from Aug. 11th... Everything seems still operational, apart from the "brain transplant" related o the new software routines. Did I miss anything?

Luigi

The Onion, which calls itself "America's Finest News Source", is a satire publication. Its articles are never to be taken seriously literally.

:-)

[Flatlander]

Originally Posted by xilman

A complete(?) set of images from the Soviet Venera program can be found at http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

If Titan is to be included as a planet for these purposes and if you also require contact between the probe and the "planet", I'll throw in the Moon and Halley's comet --- Giotto went right inside the comet.

I remember recording the live program on the BBC as Giotto's data arrived - in glorious Betamax. Hmm. Tapes discarded long ago. Not on YouTube last time I looked.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Flatlander

I remember recording the live program on the BBC as Giotto's data arrived - in glorious Betamax. Hmm. Tapes discarded long ago. Not on YouTube last time I looked.

I also watched that program.

Back in the day I was an active member of the Oxford University Astronomical Society. We were raising funds to build a permanent observatory to house the semi-portable 25cm Mak-Cas telescope. One scheme was a sweepstake in which we sold off 5 minute time slices for a few hours around the closest approach. The winner would be the person who chose the time when Giotto was destroyed, or chosen by lot if it survived. As we now know, the draw was required. It was won by a lass who managed to get herself washed off a cliff, fatally, in a storm in Wales a few weeks later

Another sweepstake sold off 10-degree by 10-degree areas of the Earth's surface, the winner being the purchaser of the area in which the largest fragment of Skylab hit. The winner 's still alive as far as I know. She was a few weeks ago, anyway.

Incidentally, OUSAS (it changed its name slightly some years ago) is now raising funds to refurbish the observatory. I'll make a donation when the details come through. I've already provided them with contact details for a dozen or more other members from my era.

Paul

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by xilman

Incidentally, OUSAS (it changed its name slightly some years ago)

... by a collector of Axumian Empire coinage?

[xilman]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

... by a collector of Axumian Empire coinage?

Possible, but unlikely.

It's now the OU Space and Astronomical Society.

[Dubslow]

Woo! Lasers!