Comments on: VIDEO of Curiosity's descent… from the rover cam itself!

By: Curtis Lemanski

Curtis Lemanski — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0000

I don’t believe this for a second. The evidence is out there that the lunar landing in the 60′s was fake. Now this is probably fake too. Too much money riding on it. Has anyone been on the moon since Armstrong. They landed then without the computers of today allegedlly. No person has been on the moon since. Why are there no buildings on the moon. Why not anything? Now I am suppose to believe this mars stuff. I’m not. I say fake.

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:40:37 +0000

@34 Indy: Shouldn’t you be off criticizing the folks at CERN for using Comic Sans in their big presentation?

By: Indy

Indy — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:05:23 +0000

It is a neat video, but I am disappointed that you fell for the “stop motion” bit. This is a time-lapse sequence. I’m also disappointed that the JPL person who put this together called it a ‘stop motion’ video. In a stop motion video, the objects in the video are physically manipulated to move around between frames (this is sometimes called “claymation” when using clay objects).

By: wright1

wright1 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 01:09:57 +0000

It’s going to be awhile before I’m tired of watching content related to this, especially the “Curiosity has landed” video. Made me cry even on the 4th viewing…

By: SkyGazer

SkyGazer — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:20:33 +0000

Lincoln seems to have made it too:
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/07/Lincoln-on-Mars/

By: Trebuchet

Trebuchet — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:37:21 +0000

We live in an amazing time, when we can get pictures back from Mars in 15 minutes but it takes six hours to get them from the Olympics in London. (Not original with me, sorry!)

By: Wzrd1

Wzrd1 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:00:44 +0000

@14, Tyrant, it’s actually closest to Starship Troopers novel (not the lousy film adaptation) description of personnel landing.

Aside from that, it seemed that they had no true LOS during entry, but instead fell back to tone communications. I was a bit surprised at that, as even as thin as the Martian atmosphere is, I expected a bit more ionization that would degrade communications far more.
Can’t wait for observations and experimentation to begin at full swing!

By: Renee Marie Jones

Renee Marie Jones — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:34:00 +0000

Ok, Phil, now you are putting me into WOW overload!

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:39:22 +0000

Kuhnigget (11) said:

Oh, but one technical interpetty sort of quibble: it’s actually time-lapse, not stop motion. Stop motion is a form of animatioon – practiced by myself – in which inanimate objects are moved by the animator. Time lapse is when you take still images in sequence and then string them together into a movie.

Heh. You beat me to it.

Here’s to internet pedantry!

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:45:01 +0000

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to stay up for the landing, but first thing I did when I got up was check the news for it. Exhilirating. And this video is just awesome, in the truest sense of the word.

But I’m rather disappointed that no one pointed out bigfoot, yet. He’s clearly visible in a couple of the shots. Tsk. Tsk.