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jlangholzj
08-06-2012, 02:38 PM
anyone watch it last night (err...this morning)? Everything went off without a hitch and its been transmitting telemetry and thumbnail pics from its haz-cams since about 1am this morning. Pretty impressive when you consider the size of the rover. Should be pretty exciting to see what it turns up!
Ben K
08-06-2012, 07:13 PM
It was awesome. End of story :-)
jlangholzj
08-15-2012, 11:44 AM
one of the latest high-res color pics taken!

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/676507main_pia16053-white-full_full.jpg
Joe_Little
08-21-2012, 10:24 AM
Simulated with Adams :-)

If you watch the "7 Minute of Terror" video, there a few snippets of non-CGI that are raw Adams animation output.

Oh, and by the way, we have Adams entry level positions open ;-)
RollingCamel
08-24-2012, 04:22 AM
So can Adams answer "the" question....Will it drift?
Joe_Little
08-24-2012, 08:14 AM
Oh, it can..

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2672479/drift.png

It can answer the "other question" as well..

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2672479/loop.png

Sorry for the thread hijacking..
Z
08-25-2012, 06:52 AM
It is good to see that NASA is doing interesting stuff again.

However, Curiosity is not much different to the Ruskies' Lunokhods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme) from the 1970s. Once you are out of Earth's gravitational well, it is pretty easy cruising to wherever you want to go...

Anyway, if any of you FSAEers would like a job on this sort of thing (I would find it interesting, except that I'm an unemployable PIA http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif) I strongly suggest you make sure your FSAE car finishes all events RELIABLY!

Z