Spirit Landing Landing on Mars Successful...:)

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » January 4, 2004, 1:57 am

Gratz NASA and JPL again...

what a week....

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » January 4, 2004, 2:08 am

It's so amazing when you think of the billions of things that could have gone wrong, but did not. A mind boggling accomplishment.

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » January 4, 2004, 5:21 am

Oh my....the resolution on tthe cameras up there are great...

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » January 4, 2004, 6:42 am

Go have a look for Beagle 2 while you're up there, couldya?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 4, 2004, 8:56 am

Arborealus wrote:

Oh my....the resolution on tthe cameras up there are great...

That's crap. They don't have the high gain antenna deployed yet. The resolution will be 10 X's what you see when the fast data transfers crank up in the next day or so.

I was watching the NASA channel last night as the first data arrived and pictures were released.

Awesome stuff

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » January 4, 2004, 9:01 am

vn_Tanc wrote:Go have a look for Beagle 2 while you're up there, couldya?

oh are the british still trying to manufacture their own electronics?

how quaint.

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » January 4, 2004, 10:33 am

Winnow wrote:
Arborealus wrote:

Oh my....the resolution on tthe cameras up there are great...
That's crap. They don't have the high gain antenna deployed yet. The resolution will be 10 X's what you see when the fast data transfers crank up in the next day or so.

I was watching the NASA channel last night as the first data arrived and pictures were released.

Awesome stuff

Yeah its the UHF crap 256X256ish...High Gain = full colour panoramic stereoptic mosaics....but watching as those photos came down the first moment was a huge rush even watching remotely...Flawless landing, then watching as those were put up on the displays in Mission Engineering...What a rush it must have been for those that have worked so long on this...