OT but exciting (NASA rover landing on Mars)

TiMSport · 02-18-2021, 02:40 PM

Since I can't find an OT lounge anywhere figured maybe a few are interested in any case:

NorCalAthlete · 02-18-2021, 02:44 PM

I've got a triple monitor setup for work / personal at my desk...I've got work meetings + spreadsheets and stuff on one screen, the Financial Services Committee stream going on another, and the NASA one pulled up next to it.

TiMSport · 02-18-2021, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by NorCalAthlete

I've got a triple monitor setup for work / personal at my desk...I've got work meetings + spreadsheets and stuff on one screen, the Financial Services Committee stream going on another, and the NASA one pulled up next to it.

LOL, nice!

srbs73 · 02-18-2021, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by TiMSport

Since I can't find an OT lounge anywhere figured maybe a few are interested in any case:

Thanks for posting, nearly forgot! Just launched with 2m before atmospheric entry

BobTheBimmer · 02-18-2021, 02:57 PM

Yes, just finished watching. Thanks for sharing the feed.

TiMSport · 02-18-2021, 02:58 PM

You're welcome! It was a successful landing. Yah!!

TiMSport · 02-18-2021, 03:22 PM

Badass fact about the Mars rover Perseverance:

Tucked under the belly of the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars is a little helicopter called Ingenuity. Its body is the size of a box of tissues, slung underneath a pair of 1.2m carbon fiber rotors on top of four spindly legs.

I wonder whether that CF has an alcantara weave blended in it

In any case, it should be fun watching what that lil' helicopter discovers up there as it travels autonomously.

TiMSport · 02-18-2021, 09:00 PM

How cool is this?

seelark · 02-19-2021, 03:40 AM

I couldn't find one for the appropriate planet 😴

TiMSport · 02-21-2021, 06:14 PM

I wonder if NASA's Perseverance has Launch Control

Cool stuff about the engineering of this masterpiece nonetheless....

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