Are you curious about Curiosity?

http://i.imgur.com/v3J8z.png

So this is the kind of world we lived in. Enjoy your stay…:rofl

http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-into-a-dcma-takedown

thats a joke right lol:ponder

its nuclear powered… not exactly a bomb.

yeah i just looked that up. some pultonium isotope that decays real fast and the heat from the decaying matter turns a fan to produce electricity. pretty cool, wonder if that is one of a kind, created specifically for this machine.

its a type of sterling engine i believe. theyve used them in satellites

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1coV7XqE1M[/ame]

http://www.davegranlund.com/cartoons/wp-content/uploads/Color-Curiosity-Mars-rover.jpg

http://jerm.co.za/images/2012/08/jerm-mars-curiosity-rover-perspetive.jpg

Nuclear power is the way to go and will be the only way to go. You simply can’t rely on solar power, period.

HD photostring/video of the actual landing.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZX5GRPnd4U&hd=1[/ame]

^ There are a million ways that this landing can go wrong, but it worked.

I was talking to my boss the other day that if people saw the exact same landing in a Sci-Fi movie, people would say that is so impossible and will never happen in real life.

HUGE Hi-res shot of many sticked together

Teaser

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/703570main_pia16239-43_800-600.jpg