NASA Curiosity Rover- warning bearded nerd content

Oh that’s good

I assume there’s a bunch of NASA accountants having a similar party, celebrating the fact that 2.5 Billion dollars worth of equipment didn’t just disappear.

Until someone realises they left the lens cap on…

Actual images.

Mars Science Laboratory: Raw Images

Seem to be having issues with the web servers and the amount of hits they are getting.

How sick is this photo?

fully (sik)

So keen to knock off work and go home to check the sound clip that’s been sent back.
Hopefully they manage to find Kuato.

MASH SF would be all over bombing down those hills since they are now into CX. I look forward to a MASH X MARS Colabo.

Wow… they sent a recumbant into space.

This image raises the nerd factor well beyond anything I ever thought imaginable.

Can anyone tell me what it means?

(in, like, 140 characters? if I had patience I’d be reading the NASA website.)

Vaporizes material to analyze the constituent elements and there relative abundance

Wow, I didn’t think that was possible. 99 points.

Curiosity rover finds organic compounds, but are they from Mars? - Cosmic Log

I’m no astro-biologist but from what I could get this is pretty interesting. Those nerds controlling this thing must be getting pretty bloody stoked about more organics to be found and analysed.