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NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing
- 2arrs2ells 14y agoCuriosity is the rover for the Mars Science Laboratory, launched 11/26/2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory Purpose of the MSL is: * Determine whether Mars could ever have supported life * Study the climate of Mars * Study the geology of Mars * Plan for a human mission to Mars
- glimcat 14y agoOne major thesis of MSL/Curiosity is that sample return missions are hard. Taking a jaunt over to Mars, collecting samples from various locations, then shipping them all back to Earth is not something we can accomplish right now - so Curiosity has been designed as the next best thing. Take a look at the instruments section of that Wikipedia article. Curiosity is crammed with every sensor and analysis tool they could possibly fit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Instruments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Instrum...
- kyrra 14y agoThis video is an animation (created by the JPL) of what is going to be happening over the coming few hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4boyXQuUIw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4boyXQuUIw
- oofabz 14y agoIs there any way to watch in VLC? I don't have Flash Player.
- simcop2387 14y agoNot sure if it still works (installing VLC to find out), but try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDqU2AFhwu8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDqU2AFhwu8 EDIT: with rtmpdump and mplayer it can be done with the following apparently[1] rtmpdump -r "rtmp://cp39920.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live" -a "live" -f "WIN 10,3,183,7" -W "http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.rsl.755.swf" -p "http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html" -y "nasahd@55196" -o - -v | mplayer - [1] http://stream-recorder.com/forum/play-watch-view-nasa-tv-hd-ustream-t10260.html?s=d4078228e1f41d955770854a75f4ea43& http://stream-recorder.com/forum/play-watch-view-nasa-tv-hd-...;
- bri3d 14y agohttp://nasa-f.akamaihd.net/public_h264_700@54826 http://nasa-f.akamaihd.net/public_h264_700@54826 should work in any H.264 + HTTP capable video player.
- ck2 14y agoConfirmed working in VLC 2.0, many thanks.
- mbell 14y agoAlso works in MPlayerX, as an added bonus it appears to be using hardware decode which it wasn't via flash (MB Air 2012).
- simcop2387 14y agoDefinitely much nicer than the solution I found. How did you find that so easily?
- bri3d 14y agoI have Flash handy, so I just utilized the Resources tab in Chrome's Web Inspector to see the video resource Flash was actually streaming. This approach works for a large percentage of CDN-based streaming video, which rarely has any unique authentication (as sharing any kind of per-user state with the CDN edges would be quite difficult).
- simcop2387 14y agoInteresting, I tried doing the same thing and couldn't since it was getting it over rtmp from another cdn, which was how i found mine. Apparently NASA has more CDNs for video than others that i've run into.
- bas 14y agoThat didn't work for me in VLC on Windows 7, but this does: http://nasa-f.akamaihd.net/public_h264_700@54826?v=1.1.12&fp=LNX%11,0,1,152 http://nasa-f.akamaihd.net/public_h264_700@54826?v=1.1.12...
- haskmell 14y agohttps://pay.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/xpwlu/watching_curiosity_in_mplayer/ https://pay.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/xpwlu/watching_curio...
- est 14y agoholyshit, reddit works in https?
- ck2 14y agoIf they pull this off I will be thoroughly impressed. I keep googling to try to find where they tested the landing system altogether as a unit and there doesn't appear to be such an event, only individual components. Can you imagine designing and testing the individual parts of a car, then assembling it and never testing the car as a whole unit and just hoping based on theory it works?
- DavidSJ 14y agoThey tested it as much as they could. You can't simulate Martian gravity and the full Martian atmosphere on Earth.
- seunghomattyang 14y agoIs there anything left to be done by NASA HQ? For example, are they still controlling the trajectory of the probe to Mars or is that mostly done by probe's onboard computers? I'm genuinely curious about what kind of things the HQ is doing right now. I've been watching the live stream and there's not much activity besides milling around screens and resizing windows on the huge screen.
- greatreorx 14y agoFrom a Reuters piece... "Mission control contemplated sending Curiosity one last "parameter update" on Sunday, hours before atmospheric entry, giving the vessel an exact fix on its position in space. But NASA engineers said they would likely forego that transmission because the vessel has varied so little from its ideal course. Otherwise, controllers will have little to do but anxiously track Curiosity's progress as it flies into Mars' upper atmosphere..." "We're all along for the ride," Seltzner said." http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/us-usa-mars-idINBRE8721A920120806 http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/us-usa-mars-idINBRE...
- yk 14y agoAt http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/msl-what-to-expect-on-sunday-night#.UB8TWv-gwU8.hackernews http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwar... it is said, that 08:23:00 PM was the last time at which they could change the trajectory 'manually.' (So I assume, that they have just very good seats to watch the show in the HQ )
- natep 14y agoPlenty to do, since monitoring and understanding all of the incoming data is most of what operations is, but in this case, no commands were sent while the stream was live.
- magic_haze 14y agoThe BadAstronomy folks have started a google hangout covering this event: http://www.youtube.com/user/universetoday?v=wrJT1d1BKhw Some interesting discussion going on there now; highly recommended.
- pokoleo 14y ago3 hours ago they were at 300k total views, ever. Now, it's about to hit 1M total views. This is a great chance for NasaTV to advocate for more funding. /just saying
- kalininalex 14y agoNow, one hour later, they're at 11M views with 120K live viewers. This is good TV.
- hdivider 14y agoTake a moment to consider what you're actually seeing here: a truly historic event. This mission is so expensive, and has involved the figurative blood and tears of so many extremely talented people, that it will probably always be remembered in the history of space travel, whether or not the landing itself will be successful. (It could be argued that the value of having so many millions of people watch or follow this (whether now or later), and have the associated mind-expanding thoughts and possible subsequent ideas or decisions, is itself worth the price of this mission.)
- Wingman4l7 14y agoI noticed on the NASA TV schedule that the "Public/Education Channels" have commentary, and that the "Media Channel" has a "Clean Feed with Mission Audio Only". The link given is for the public stream (http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv); the media stream is here (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-media-channel http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-media-channel) and should be HD as well.
- magic_haze 14y agoThe clean feed is awesome: it is quite funny how banal some of the talk between the engineers really is: people reading out trace logs, complaining about IT problems, asking each other how to open console windows they accidentally closed, asking people to email them estimates, state machine changes...
- Wingman4l7 14y agoYou don't get the cheering, though...
- LVB 14y agoThe free NASA TV channel on Roku is carrying this as well.
- TomGullen 14y agoOne thing they mentioned is that one advantage to the sky hook is that it will be a soft landing - no dust will go everywhere and land on delicate instruments. Isn't this easily solvable with some sort of skin it can just dispose of once the dust has settled?
- natep 14y agoThey do have covers on the lenses that will be removed, but I don't think it would be practical to put removable covers everywhere. What would happen if the 'skin' didn't come off?
- njharman 14y agoA word that is overused but truly applicable to this landing / 7min of terror. Awesome
- njharman 14y agoA word that is overused but truly applicable to this landing / 7min of terror. Awesome
- dakrisht 14y agoIf this is successful, do you guys think we'll see a man on mars in the next 20-40 years?
- jonknee 14y agoElon Musk will be there waiting to greet the astronauts if it takes NASA 40 years.
- mladenkovacevic 14y agoUsain Bolt of the space race.
- ars 14y agoA man or mars has nothing to do with whether or not this is successful.
- muyuu 14y agoMost of the research to be made on extraterrestrial colonization can be done in the Moon for much cheaper. The terraforming of Mars is also controversial at this point, while we still want to make sure about possible past (or present) life in Mars, so we won't export bacteria to Mars any time soon. We are pretty sure the Moon is devoid of biological life so the first colonies would be placed there. Honestly the only point of sending people to Mars now would be to say "first!" pretty much as it happened when we first landed in the Moon to not come back in many decades.
- alanfalcon 14y agoGot my peanuts. Good luck, Curiosity.
- dinkumthinkum 14y agoWell, congratulations are in order I guess. Touchdown confirmed. :)
- tux1968 14y agoImages arriving now.. Would like to be part of the next trip ;o)
- antimora 14y agoCongrats on successfully landing!
- noonespecial 14y ago"We are safe on Mars." Humanity rocks sometimes.
- jc4p 14y agoIt seems like every single person at JPL is teary eyed, this is awesome. Edit: The crowd at Planetary Society started chanting "USA! USA!" and Bill Nye the Science Guy quickly made them change it to "JPL! Planet Earth!" freaking awesome. Edit #2: Every. Single. One. of NASA's websites is offline and overloaded. I know it's a DDoS due to everyone trying to look at the images, but this is really a good example of 'Hey, maybe the company that just landed a fucking spaceship on Mars needs more funding.'
- noonespecial 14y agoThey're already getting pictures. I wasn't born for the moon landing, but this seems almost as cool. Must have been something like this.
- lisper 14y agoThe images are a lot clearer this time around :-)
- idonthack 14y ago>The crowd at Planetary Society started chanting "USA! USA!" and Bill Nye the Science Guy quickly made them change it to "JPL! Planet Earth!" freaking awesome. yet more evidence that scientists hate america
- dylanvee 14y agoWhat a beautiful moment. That team has a lot to be proud of.
- tdfx 14y agoJust seeing the complexity of the various descent stages boggles the mind: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/20090428MSLEntry2.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/20090428M.... Amazing they got it to work perfectly.
- bane 14y agoJust landed..."lets see where Curiosity takes us"
- ccarpenterg 14y agoCuriosity just landed: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/232348523050450945 https://twitter.com/NASA/status/232348523050450945
- yoda_sl 14y agoWow! They made it... Great stuff happening and what a technological challenge! Edit: even more impressive that they are already receiving some pictures
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- mbenjaminsmith 14y agoThat's the second time in recent memory that I got chills watching a room full of really smart people erupt into applause. Congrats to everyone involved.
- antimora 14y agoScreenshot of landing picture: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76008/Screenshot%20from%202012-08-05%2022%3A38%3A06.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76008/Screenshot%20from%202012-08-0...
- RVijay007 14y agoWhy can't they ever take just one horizon photo of the scenery in front of the rover instead of the typical, "looking at the ground" photos that are common with these rovers? That would have been a far better shot to show live.
- manglav 14y agoIf you look at the images, it seems like they use linux as their OS? Can anyone else confirm?
- rickr 14y agoA little late and I don't work there but I know I've seen at least Sun gear/monitors at JPL and Houston.
- lisper 14y agoThere were about 240,000 concurrent users on the web feed at touchdown. But not a single TV news channel was covering the event live that I could find.
- magic_haze 14y agocnn.com is, but they're just repeating the nasa feed unmodified.
- jlgreco 14y agoFrankly that is better than any alternative they are really in a position to provide. I am sure it was hard for them to resist talking over it reading a bunch of tweets.
- taligent 14y agoBe thankful. They could have cutover to Ryan Seacrest interviewing a rock.
- barryrandall 14y agoThey missed out on some ratings gold, there.
- philippK 14y agoustream was showing an even higher number of 11.4m viewers
- elliottcarlson 14y agoThat is total views on the NASA ustream channel
- sjm 14y agoThat's total. Live concurrent viewers was around 240k.
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- martythemaniak 14y agoI don't think it's an overstatement to say that this is one greatest expressions humanity is capable off. Simply amazing.
- mladenkovacevic 14y agoThis is amazing. I can just imagine the anxiety and excitement of waiting for Odyssey to fly around for another pass and transmit more data back home.
- jrappleye 14y agoEarth wins another round of expensive hardware lobbing! Here's a humorous reminder at how difficult it is to reach other planets, especially Mars - too bad it hasn't been updated in a while. http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~dgore/fun/PSL/ http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~dgore/fun/PSL/
- gautamc 14y agohttp://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/
- mtinkerhess 14y agoTo see the images from Mars: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/raw http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/raw Edit: it appears that the page has moved to http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/, discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4343891 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4343891
- lusr 14y agoWell that's disappointing, CloudFront: ERROR The request could not be satisfied. Generated Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:59:11 GMT by cloudfront (CloudFront)
- lisper 14y agoI was at JPL when this mission was first being planned. I actually sat in on a meeting where the sky crane was first being discussed. I remember thinking to myself at the time that there was no way that it would ever work. I'm very happy to say that I was wrong. Congrats to everyone on the MSL team!
- yread 14y agowhat's up with all the "what does it mean for the nation"? It's a huge step for the humanity, not only the US. And the actual rover is filled with instruments from all over the world. From wiki: > ChemCam ... developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and French CESR > Alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer ... APXS was developed by Canadian Space agency. > Sample analysis at Mars ... was developed by Goddard Space flight center, the Laboratoire Inter-Universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA) (jointly operated by France's CNRS and some Parisian universities) and Honeybee Robotics, along with many additional external partners. > Radiation assessment detector ... was developed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the extraterrestrial physics group at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany > Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons ... provided by the Russian Federal Space Agency > Rover environmental monitoring station ... provided by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
- arrrg 14y agoI think the difference here is pretty clear: If you want the best instruments you should look around internationally. There is so much diversity there, so much specialities, that you will always be able to find some places in the world that are exceptionally good at building them besides just the US. However, if you actually want to get those things to the surface of Mars and let them do meaningful work, the best option is the US. ESA didn’t even manage a (successful) landing yet, Russia is failing constantly.
- ballooney 14y ago> However, if you actually want to get those things to the surface of Mars and let them do meaningful work, the best option is the US. ESA didn’t even manage a (successful) landing yet, Russia is failing constantly. Not on Mars no (Beagle 2 was a bit anomalous, having a budget that would barely cover Nasa's stationary costs each year and wasn't secure until about half way through the project anyway. Very embarrassing from a PM point of view). But don't discount Huygens! That was pretty spectacular, especially given how much less we know about Titan. Asside: I asked a few people who worked on the Huygens landing system why that worked so well but why ESA hasn't been able to recreate that success. They said, quick as a flash, project management. ESA used to PM their projects with a small, powerful project office. Now the sub a lot of the PM out to the big contractors, who seem to just do MS Word documents about how they can't deliver anything and it's someone else's fault. You need good PMs (we all know this anyway right?). The MSL PM is also the MER (spirit and opportunity) PM, Pete Theisinger. He is a great man. There's a fantastic talk he gave a few years ago, that should delight anyone into ambitious and cool engineering projects, about the development of MER. You can see that he's the kind of guy you'd like to work for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZBLklsUys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZBLklsUys Edit: typo.
- cjdavis 14y agoOne of us watching this right now is going to set foot on Mars. Probably more than one.
- redwood 14y agoI recognize one of those guys from college! w00t
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- rewatchhow 14y agoFor people that missed the event on the livestream, how can we rewatch this?
- pka 14y agoFor those who missed it, here's a VOD: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/24512027 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/24512027 Landing starts at about 19:00 minutes.
- yread 14y agoLook at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij33yhdGn_g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij33yhdGn_g it's about the landing of the spirit rover. You can see the same people that were in the room today talking about it!
- metermax 14y agoI am so happy to have been watching this historic event! I cannot believe that there were no network affiliates carrying the EDL live from JPL. I watched it happily on Ustream, but I'm upset about it. I tried to check NBC up to 18 minutes prior, and they weren't even showing an olympic event. They showed some taped interview with a British rowing medalist from 20 years ago. If the whole thing is on tape delay anyway, what is their excuse? What if I'm not someone who has a computer connected to their television and only had a TV? Every American should have been able to see this live. This is the greatest feat of engineering in history!!!