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a full scale model of the Curiosity rover. She’s huge. And hard.

We were guests of Scott Hubbard of B612 and formerly the “Mars Czar” at NASA. From his new book Exploring Mars:

“Chapter 1 Mars is Hard: The history of modern Mars exploration is a cautionary tale. The Soviet Union (and, later, Russia) has been singularly unlucky in exploring Mars. [They] attempted twenty missions to the red planet. Of that, only four were minimally successful, and none could be called fully successful.”

More photos below.

11 responses to “Photos from JPL for Curiosity Landing”

  1. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    My other photo page from this JPL evening
    Curiosity Landing at JPL with Will.i.am    At the Flight Projects Center at JPL last night:
    IMG_1797Photos from JPL for Curiosity Landingthe earlier rovers… much smallerIMG_5311Keepin’ it real:
    Mars BarBig bear hugs at 10:36pm when the first low-res image from the rover arrivesIMG_1815Such a cool invite:IMG_1434And here is a video summary from JPL of what we witnessed last night.

    The outburst of cheering at landing and first pixels was incredible.

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  2. casrose1 Avatar
    casrose1

    The Photo of You and Your Son Captured so much of the Moment ! Excellent !

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  3. P^2 - Paul Avatar
    P^2 – Paul

    Hey! isn’t that a Canadian Mars bar?

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  4. solerena Avatar
    solerena

    looks hard and very cool!!… even unsuccessful space mission is still a step in the same direction… it is probably even more true for space projects than any other endeavor that we learned from failures more here than from successes:) how can other kids join B612 crew??

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  5. linux-works Avatar
    linux-works

    wait… ‘number five’ went to mars??

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  6. rajjda Avatar
    rajjda

    reminds me of Wall – E

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  7. angry shock Avatar
    angry shock

    I was going to say that she looks like the robot of Short Circuit, and now I see @linux-works reference… 😉

    I think Wall-E actually was a quite inspired in number 5 (as well)… and it seems for online comments many people think the same.

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  8. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    binocular vision…. a resonant homology now baked into our cortical structures for facial recognition… which makes our one-eyed creatures so visually arresting.

    IMG_1658

    We saw similar Wall•E / Short Circuit patterns in my LM Descent Engine.

    P.S. a little video on "The top five coolest things about Curiosity."

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  9. angry shock Avatar
    angry shock

    @Steve Jurvetson Yeah! that’s why I assume the personality and mood of a car by their face. Because… cars have faces, don’t they? 😉

    Awesome one-eyed! Where does that creature come from? Cute!!!

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  10. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    The Southern Pole of Mars, just waiting for a friend to go shoot lasers…

    P.S. cross posting the other photo page from this JPL evening
    Curiosity Landing at JPL with Will.i.am

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  11. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    and now.. China’s rover looks to have similar wheels! The Red Planet

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