Mars Rover landing 3:55pm Eastern
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That's my point. If the guy hadn't used a few fancy calculus looking variables and made it seem mind blowingly sophisticated, he would have been a laughing stock instead of a wiki page.
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Re: Mars Rover landing 3:55pm Eastern
You did not account for:Animal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:54 am Flumper's Equation: For calculating the number of trash cans with bent nails on a given day = N
1. First we need to know the rate that trash cans are produced.
2. We need to know the mean number of trash cans in a building.
3. We need to know the rate of buildings that include a person that might use a nail in a day.
4. If a person uses a nail, we need to know the number of nails in a day they might use.
5. Of nails used, we need to know the mean number of those nails that are bent.
6. We need the ratio of nails that are bent in relation to nails that end up in a trash can.
7. We need to know the rate in which trash cans are discarded and no longer used.
A. the rate bent nails are restraightened
B. The percentage pf bent nails that are recycled vs thrown away
c> the bent nails that end up in tires
Does this apply to orher forms of metal fasteners? Like staples, screws, bolts, paper clips spikes?
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It was my rough draft 2 minute spitball attempt to create an Equation that was absolute brilliance off the charts. It might take a few more minutes to refine it to the point that Drake did his.Antknot wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:44 amYou did not account for:Animal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:54 am Flumper's Equation: For calculating the number of trash cans with bent nails on a given day = N
1. First we need to know the rate that trash cans are produced.
2. We need to know the mean number of trash cans in a building.
3. We need to know the rate of buildings that include a person that might use a nail in a day.
4. If a person uses a nail, we need to know the number of nails in a day they might use.
5. Of nails used, we need to know the mean number of those nails that are bent.
6. We need the ratio of nails that are bent in relation to nails that end up in a trash can.
7. We need to know the rate in which trash cans are discarded and no longer used.
A. the rate bent nails are restraightened
B. The percentage pf bent nails that are recycled vs thrown away
c> the bent nails that end up in tires
Does this apply to orher forms of metal fasteners? Like staples, screws, bolts, paper clips spikes?
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He's doing his best to make it one.disco.moon wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:26 pmI'm pretty certain most of you would prefer it a man only space.CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:24 amYes, Ma'am. You are so welcome. It's been a sausage fest around here. With Animal, it even involved goats.
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I like you being here.disco.moon wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:26 pmI'm pretty certain most of you would prefer it a man only space.CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:24 amYes, Ma'am. You are so welcome. It's been a sausage fest around here. With Animal, it even involved goats.
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Re: Mars Rover landing 3:55pm Eastern
Tune in to the Nasa YouTube link on page 1 at 2pm eastern time for the rover landing video.
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Re: Mars Rover landing 3:55pm Eastern
anyone catch the joe rogan / elon musk interview last week on spotify? it was really interesting
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Watching the broadcast, that landing system is amazing
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Well shitballs, the microphone didn't capture the landing sequence
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Wow! That is some amazing video. Holy shit!
so, tell me, on the day it landed. Obviusly they didn't have this video to look at. How did the lady know the exact moment that the rover touched down? What kind of delay was in whatever communication she had that told her that?
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I’d prefer this forum to be me and all other members being female.disco.moon wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:26 pmI'm pretty certain most of you would prefer it a man only space.CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:24 amYes, Ma'am. You are so welcome. It's been a sausage fest around here. With Animal, it even involved goats.
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That was an awesome video. Any one else want to see the heat shield actually hit the surface at full speed from miles up?
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Re: Mars Rover landing 3:55pm Eastern
11 minutes was the delay, with the entire landing sequence 8 minutes long.Animal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:45 pmWow! That is some amazing video. Holy shit!
so, tell me, on the day it landed. Obviusly they didn't have this video to look at. How did the lady know the exact moment that the rover touched down? What kind of delay was in whatever communication she had that told her that?
They were clapping and the entire thing could’ve been a pile of burning rubble on Mars, and they wouldn’t know for 3 minutes after.
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so even when they were in the control room on the day it landed and were getting radio signals that we couldn't hear or see. that lady was narrating into the microphone various things as they were happening. All of that was 11 minute delayed? So when she said "It has touched down" that actually had happened 11 minutes prior?woohooguy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:17 pm11 minutes was the delay, with the entire landing sequence 8 minutes long.Animal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:45 pmWow! That is some amazing video. Holy shit!
so, tell me, on the day it landed. Obviusly they didn't have this video to look at. How did the lady know the exact moment that the rover touched down? What kind of delay was in whatever communication she had that told her that?
They were clapping and the entire thing could’ve been a pile of burning rubble on Mars, and they wouldn’t know for 3 minutes after.
Because I thought the 11 minute delay was in getting pictures back.
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The data being returned was 11 minutes after the rover performed each event.Animal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:27 pmso even when they were in the control room on the day it landed and were getting radio signals that we couldn't hear or see. that lady was narrating into the microphone various things as they were happening. All of that was 11 minute delayed? So when she said "It has touched down" that actually had happened 11 minutes prior?woohooguy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:17 pm11 minutes was the delay, with the entire landing sequence 8 minutes long.Animal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:45 pmWow! That is some amazing video. Holy shit!
so, tell me, on the day it landed. Obviusly they didn't have this video to look at. How did the lady know the exact moment that the rover touched down? What kind of delay was in whatever communication she had that told her that?
They were clapping and the entire thing could’ve been a pile of burning rubble on Mars, and they wouldn’t know for 3 minutes after.
Because I thought the 11 minute delay was in getting pictures back.
When watching this video, they synced the audio (11 minutes after it actually happened) with the video in real time.
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yeah, the one i just watched the lady's voice was synched with exactly what was happening in the video. man, that is so freaking cool. and that camera image was just perfect. it was in focus from thousands of kilometers right down to where the sand started kicking up too much to see the ground.woohooguy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:31 pmThe data being returned was 11 minutes after the rover performed each event.Animal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:27 pmso even when they were in the control room on the day it landed and were getting radio signals that we couldn't hear or see. that lady was narrating into the microphone various things as they were happening. All of that was 11 minute delayed? So when she said "It has touched down" that actually had happened 11 minutes prior?woohooguy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:17 pm11 minutes was the delay, with the entire landing sequence 8 minutes long.Animal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:45 pmWow! That is some amazing video. Holy shit!
so, tell me, on the day it landed. Obviusly they didn't have this video to look at. How did the lady know the exact moment that the rover touched down? What kind of delay was in whatever communication she had that told her that?
They were clapping and the entire thing could’ve been a pile of burning rubble on Mars, and they wouldn’t know for 3 minutes after.
Because I thought the 11 minute delay was in getting pictures back.
When watching this video, they synced the audio (11 minutes after it actually happened) with the video in real time.
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Re: Mars Rover landing 3:55pm Eastern
To give everyone a better idea how big that "descent stage" rocket pack really is
Each one of those hydrazine engines is about the size of a person with the nozzels.
Each one of those hydrazine engines is about the size of a person with the nozzels.
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Yeah, it's the thing that actually lowered the Rover, then flew off. Edit: If you go back and watch the landing video again, right when the Rover lands, for about 1 second they pan up and show the sky crane flying off.
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https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
Link to the Mars 2020 NASA site with RAW images. I edited the first post of this thread and put it there as well.
There will be a shit ton of new images popping up over the next 2 weeks as they finish up testing and take a short drive.
Page 9 has some nice close ups of the rocket pack
Link to the Mars 2020 NASA site with RAW images. I edited the first post of this thread and put it there as well.
There will be a shit ton of new images popping up over the next 2 weeks as they finish up testing and take a short drive.
Page 9 has some nice close ups of the rocket pack
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and so what happened to it? Did it just go crash somewhere or did it go land somewhere for something in the future?CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:51 pmYeah, it's the thing that actually lowered the Rover, then flew off. Edit: If you go back and watch the landing video again, right when the Rover lands, for about 1 second they pan up and show the sky crane flying off.
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It peeled off to fly away and it crashed some ways away to not interfere or possibly damage the Rover.Animal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:19 pmand so what happened to it? Did it just go crash somewhere or did it go land somewhere for something in the future?CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:51 pmYeah, it's the thing that actually lowered the Rover, then flew off. Edit: If you go back and watch the landing video again, right when the Rover lands, for about 1 second they pan up and show the sky crane flying off.
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nasa is going to have to seriously look into building these crafts out of biodegradable materials. What a mess they have made.
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Re: Mars Rover landing 3:55pm Eastern
I want to add that while NASA is as careful as possible to avoid microbe contamination, there is no practical way to sanitize the Rover and all of its components of possible microbe hitchhikers. Every rover we have landed on Mars has the possibility of contaminating it, so NASA does what it can to keep the clean rooms as pure as possible and tests surfaces of anything going to Mars on a very regular basis, then those samples are examined/cultivated to see if there is biological contamination.
The direction the descent stage rocket backpack turned off to was decided by the final navigation solution, predetermined and instructed by the rover before separation. JPL has done some amazing things to consolidate all the different computers and what not into the rover, it reduces the chance of something going wrong when you can make the rover systems more robust to begin with and handle more. Not to mention the rover is nuclear powered with batteries so thats the primary power source after cruise stage separation.
So once the final landing solution was plotted, the path the backpack took was set as well, rotated in a way to not blast the rover with exhaust gasses and took it in a direction far enough away it will not interfere with the rover. Wherever it landed, NASA will go the opposite direction to ensure anything it may come across has not possibly been contaminated with the exhaust, remnant chemicals, possible biologicals, etc from the jet pack.
Going over the video again, the callouts are interesting
1:08 Radar contact - the radar on the descent stage started reading the ground and began plotting a place to land while under parachute. The radar ran all the way to the ground
1:48 Valid landing solution - the system identified the best place to land using the current trajectory and speed under parachute
1:56 Timing landing engines - the system had to ensure that once the descent stage broke free, it had enough fuel to get the lander safely to the ground and then turn away. Still under parachute
2:05 Back shield separation - the system calculated the jet pack could cut free from the parachute and have enough fuel to meet its goal. the pack ejected from the module tied to the parachute
2:27 Terrain altered Nav - the system is now under rocket power and radar system is determining the final landing location now that it has a closer picture of the landscape
2:50 Sky crane to touchdown
Some pretty fucking cool shit, all happening autonomously as help is 22 minutes away - 11 minutes to earth "oh shit" 11 minute response from earth "OH SHIT!"
The direction the descent stage rocket backpack turned off to was decided by the final navigation solution, predetermined and instructed by the rover before separation. JPL has done some amazing things to consolidate all the different computers and what not into the rover, it reduces the chance of something going wrong when you can make the rover systems more robust to begin with and handle more. Not to mention the rover is nuclear powered with batteries so thats the primary power source after cruise stage separation.
So once the final landing solution was plotted, the path the backpack took was set as well, rotated in a way to not blast the rover with exhaust gasses and took it in a direction far enough away it will not interfere with the rover. Wherever it landed, NASA will go the opposite direction to ensure anything it may come across has not possibly been contaminated with the exhaust, remnant chemicals, possible biologicals, etc from the jet pack.
Going over the video again, the callouts are interesting
1:08 Radar contact - the radar on the descent stage started reading the ground and began plotting a place to land while under parachute. The radar ran all the way to the ground
1:48 Valid landing solution - the system identified the best place to land using the current trajectory and speed under parachute
1:56 Timing landing engines - the system had to ensure that once the descent stage broke free, it had enough fuel to get the lander safely to the ground and then turn away. Still under parachute
2:05 Back shield separation - the system calculated the jet pack could cut free from the parachute and have enough fuel to meet its goal. the pack ejected from the module tied to the parachute
2:27 Terrain altered Nav - the system is now under rocket power and radar system is determining the final landing location now that it has a closer picture of the landscape
2:50 Sky crane to touchdown
Some pretty fucking cool shit, all happening autonomously as help is 22 minutes away - 11 minutes to earth "oh shit" 11 minute response from earth "OH SHIT!"
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