[Full Video] Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Landing
Landing sequence happens at 55:00
Touchdown at 1:00:35
Why am I posting a video about
NASA JPL and the
Mars Landing?
Well I was a summer intern there at
JPL back in 2008. It was a great honor for me to research and learn about how things work over there. I was researching on how fractionated spacecraft worked and how they could communicate with each other. I got to hang out in that control room and all those stations the JPL scientists are on are all running
Solaris OS from
Sun Micro Systems. I had nothing to do with space exploration there but I did get to see
Curiosity.
Thanks to @encellon for the info:
FYI - "OD" is the latest orbital determination model --
JPL's best understanding of the trajectory prior to contact with the martian atmosphere. At this
point, it was too late to alt
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