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I feel like so many more people are more interested about this mars expedition than any previous one. So many people are talking about it

See post #284 and #296.

Try to look up page or at least back one page, before posting similar videos.

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I feel like so many more people are more interested about this mars expedition than any previous one. So many people are talking about it

Try to not be a mod, when you're not. Who cares if he posted the same video in this thread.. Its not like he's making a new thread before searching.

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What others had mentioned. Plus it takes 150-300 days to reach Mars depending on the variables. It would require a major commitment from those individuals and it would be incredibly taxing on them mentally no doubt. I don't even know if it's actually doable right now anyway. I imagine it's quite a bit different than simply landing a rover on the surface and controlling it from tens of millions of miles away.

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Nailing Down Curiosity's Landing Site

This image shows the location (green) where scientists estimate NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars within Gale Crater, based on images from the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI). The landing estimates derived from navigation and landing data agree to within 660 feet (200 meters) of this MARDI estimate.

The red line shows the northern edge of the targeted landing region, a probability distribution defined by an ellipse.

The gray scale image is a mosaic from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The color image is from MARDI.

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Full size image available here: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674604main_pia16008-43_full.jpg

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Curiosity news and Odyssey transmission upcoming in about 7 minutes: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

New video of recent pics.

New picture of bedrock exposed by thrusters upon the landing phase

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Larger image available here: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/675069main_pia16025-full_full.jpg

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