The thread for all things Curiosity related

[GOOMH]

YAY! It isn't a 2.5 Billion dollar Mistake that the public will hold over NASA's head!

[Doctor Lag]

Yes! Loved the mission controller's look of relief

[deadshot462]

That was amazing. Good job NASA, nothing less than perfect trip.

[Atimed]

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Open up a pack of beer... Cheers..

[Dizzle]

Got some screens of the 3D simulation, figured someone might want to see it.

Also have one from when it was 2 hours away, but image limit is 5

[Cooly568]

double streamin on my moms crappy laptop. arrgh

[Fragosus]

I've had some tense moments in my life, but that was just ridiculous.

[Geronimo]

hooray for a good landing! Exciting times ahead.

[Cooly568]

I've had some tense moments in my life, but that was just ridiculous.

This peaks up there close to the end of season 6 of Americas Got Talent.

[TerranCmdr]

Didn't know there was an HD stream, so here's a crappy SD screencap:

[MissStabby]

Heres a picture of the camera!

now lets have KSP with 256x256 BW cameras to show us pictures of our lander's shadow with minutes of delays before seeing them!

[Khrissetti]

0.00456m/s horizontal velocity. New Kerbal challenge, try to beat that!

[Doctor Lag]

0.00456m/s horizontal velocity. New Kerbal challenge, try to beat that!

I'm really glad I wasn't the only one to think that...

[Cooly568]

Who just listenened to the post mission poll? Negative 0.946582 vertical landing speed and 0.04663648 Horizontal speed. thats about 1000 times better than my best KSP landing.

[deadshot462]

The first images are blurry because the lens cap is still on protecting the cameras. They will open the caps and take better pictures soon

[hen3ry]

0.00456 m/s? Heck, I think my rocket on the launch pad is moving faster than that!

[Jaydee]

This truly is a great achievement.

[NovaSilisko]

Courtasy of Nomad, who's having login issues:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16349584/curiosity2.PNG

[SkyHook]

Fuuu did you see those landing values? Im usually about 5m/s hori./vert. And i usually tip over and have to panic to save it lol. Awesome job NASA!

[Vanamonde]

What the heck does a negative vertical landing speed mean?

[sting_auer]

It means you are slowly losing altitude.

[Condor]

I have the raw 256X256 front hazcam image showing the rover's shadow, can't attach to the post though because of size. I'm not going to commentate, because anything I say would be inadequate to describe how awesome this is. Did anyone else grab any images before Nasa's servers went down?

[Cooly568]

Goodnight everyone that was a epic 3 hours. Thanks KSP forums for letting me communicate with everyone and have a great time, goodnight.

[Alavarien-46]

Curiosity has landed less than 250 meters from the point set !!!

[kevinlacht]

Nice start for the week.

Good job nasa!