Just stop and think how awesome this photo is #MSL
Posted on August 7th, 2012 by Wolf
Stop and think about this shot.
What you need.
- 1 probes around Mars
- 1 Mars Science Lander ( MSL )
- The MSL was launched Nov. 26, 2011
- The chute was open for just over one minute.
- When the chute opened the MSL was doing Mach 1.7
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter needed to be pointing in the right location
- It took 8months for Curiosity to get to Mars
- The journey of the MSL was 566 million kilometers
- It takes commands or info 13.8 minutes to travel each way
- Praying to get the shot wasn’t going to work, but Maths and Physics did
- The shot was taken from a distance of 340 kilometers
- 1 second out in the timing and the shot would be of just Mars ( still cool when you think about it )
And that is just for starters. This is big science people and it is big in how awesome it is.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120806b.html
and see The real cost of the Curiosity by John Birmingham as well.
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