[Edited on 9-6-2012 by SFandH]Bob H - 9-6-2012 at 11:06 AM
Wow, that was GREAT !!lizard lips - 9-6-2012 at 11:34 AM
Way COOL. You would think if they could do that a cure for cancer and other diseases should be right around the corner. Lets hope so..........TMW - 9-6-2012 at 03:02 PM
All the work etc that goes into something like that is amazing.David K - 9-6-2012 at 04:55 PM
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All the work etc that goes into something like that is amazing.
I hope to see a tire made using this Mars technology that won't go flat near Coco's Corner! Udo - 9-6-2012 at 05:07 PM
These animations are much, much better than PIXAR's or Disney's.Bob H - 9-6-2012 at 06:42 PM
And, to think we put men on the moon back in 1969... then, I look at my 1969 Mustang under the hood and see how ancient that technology was back in
those days and wonder how in the heck did we do it? What a difference 43 years makes in advancing technology and put roving equipment on Mars !
WOW...willardguy - 9-6-2012 at 06:53 PM
well yeah but the apollo moon landing was just an elaborate hoax brought to you by nasa via a movie sound stage. your mustang was real! Ateo - 9-6-2012 at 09:48 PM
Great link. Thanks.SFandH - 9-7-2012 at 05:48 AM
Here's the official NASA animation of Curiosity's landing. The name was chosen by a grade schooler in a naming competition BTW. NASA laid it on the
line with this Mars landing, going so very public with this video and other news events before the landing. If it hadn't worked, subsequent funding
would be even more difficult to get. Putting it all out there and saying to the world "watch this" before the landing was, I think, a gutsy call.
I'm a retired engineer and I think the folks in this video have the greatest jobs I can imagine. What a challenge, what fun!!
acadist - 9-7-2012 at 04:09 PM
New picture back from the rover!
BCSTech - 9-23-2012 at 10:22 AM
Along the sidewalk in front of the Smithsonian Museums on the National Mall in Washington DC, there is a "Journey Through Our Solar System," visual
demonstration of how far apart the planets are from the sun and from each other, and how truly tiny earth is compared with the rest of our solar
system.
As you walk down the sidewalk, you pass by scale representations of the sun and planets. The two women in the foreground below are standing near a
representation of the sun, the size of a grapefruit. The person in the background is standing in front of a representation of Mercury, an
almost-invisible speck. The earth, at the next-to-last pole on the left, is 23 paces from the sun, and displayed as a dot the size of the tip of
ballpoint pen. Mars is at the last pole on the left in the photo, and is an even smaller dot on the display.
After the four inner planets, the distances become truly enormous. The entire exhibit spans about 2,000 feet down the sidewalk, and takes about 10
minutes to walk the whole solar system.
It was astonishing, and ... humbling.
Bill Nye also did a pretty compelling demo of sizes and distances in this video:
your mustang was real! 
