I watched it live at work with my colleagues and was amazing to see everything worked so well as planned.
apparently there's half a million lines of computer code for the EDL stage.
I find this image pretty amazing in that its an alien world we're looking at.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ms.../pia16005.html
I was confused with how the real time feed from odyssey worked with the time delay for signals, but this video explains it
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/video...a_id=149974611
anyone know what the indentations in the soil at the bottom left, around 7 o'clock could be in this image from the phoenix lander?? Not sure how that could form.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/sl...r-slide-show#5
nice article on the mmrtg used in Curiosity as its power source
MMRTG - Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
http://nuclear.gov/pdffiles/mmrtg.pdf