need to make a dozen of these and send them to other moons/planets we've been taking pictures on Mars for decades...
Exactly we have had a rover on Mars for over a decade and the opportunity is still going after eight years. I don't see all the excitement over another Rover mission. Just fulfilling those geeks at NASA's moral I guess. They still won't reveal all the images/video to the public. Wonder why?
Wait, what makes you think they haven't revealed all images/video to the public? Haven't really followed this, so maybe they have...although I'd think it would be because some of them are not interesting/not easy to interpret. I've been a little surprised at what all they've shared with Curiosity, especially some of the black & white low-res stuff (possibly giving people the wrong impression of certain things, due to poor quality). In a few weeks, we'll have much better versions of that stuff, but they showed those images anyway. Also pretty cool that they showed where the Skycrane, the parachute, heatshield, and even the ballasts ended up. Lots of stuff to be excited about with Curiosity. The color/high resolution picture/video stuff is cool, but far from being the only good things to come from this mission. Lots of science equipment on board (including a frickin' laser), so should learn a lot with this (history of Mars, possible info about life/water, geology/climate on a planet not named Earth, etc.). Already seems like they're getting some good readouts on radiation levels too (did previous rovers ever measure this?). Very vital information for any possible future manned missions to Mars. Before we actually go there, we might want to figure some of this stuff out first. This is only loosely related, but I watched it earlier and found it interesting: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fturU0u5KJo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Money money money. We only wished they have that kind of budget to search other planets or moons. But Mars is the closet planet that might have life, definitely water and hopefully a future colonization. <iframe width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6_owKIVtxEc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
That's because you don't understand what Curiosity is. The other rovers were much smaller and couldn't do much other than roam around and take pictures. Curiosity is the size of an SUV, weighs a ton, and its real name is the "Mars Science Laboratory." Why is that its name? Because it can break apart rocks and study the composition of them. I mean, look at all the lab stuff it has. We can study Mars much more closely and accurately with Curiosity than we could with previous rovers. But you go on and continue wearing your tin foil hat and proclaiming it was just for NASA's morale. I'll continue to read interesting information about Mars.
Why would they want to do that? Or rather, why would they waste resources on that (especially given how little they have)? Pretty cool 360 view from Curiosity: http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731 Site seems to be having problems, but if it ever does load up, it looks great.
Awesome picture of mars taken from the orbiter Also they have just finished doing the software change,so now curiosity can move and do experiments. http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/676491main_pia16056-full_full.jpg
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Mother****ing awesome HD video of the rover landing on Mars. Seriously ... this is video of something landing on the ******* mother****ing surface of Mars. After I watched it the first time, I really just wanted to high-five someone (or your mom). <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gZX5GRPnd4U?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
