Next Stop Mars: Huge NASA Rover Launches Toward Red Planet

Re:Next Stop Mars: Huge NASA Rover Launches Toward Red Planet by xgenster on Saturday November 26, 2011 @11:33AM (#3280096)

Watched the launch with the kiddies on NASA TV.

Then went outside and saw it come over South Africa. Got a picture of it as well.

To see the little white dots we saw check... http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/600/igotapicofit.jpg http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/14/picofitand2nd.jpg/

Now I can justify to the wife that I NEED a 15" telescope

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Sorry, it is more like, see if you can spot the white dots with these pictures. 52mm lens is not that great.

The dots are about 5mm to the left of the arrows

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Re:Next Stop Mars: Huge NASA Rover Launches Toward Red Planet by pasbesoin on Saturday November 26, 2011 @01:01PM (#3280288)

I see the dots. You definitely need that 15" telescope -- tell her I said so. ;-)

Reminds me a bit of being in the Palm Beach area and seeing a shuttle launch. That's some distance away, but it was still very visible. IIRC, we had binoculars, which made the details much more evident.

Then, a few days later, I looked out the kitchen window to see some rather distinct exhaust plumes. No official announcement. Turns out it was a secret launch/payload, later confirmed in that non-confirming way the government sometimes has.

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Re:Next Stop Mars: Huge NASA Rover Launches Toward Red Planet by D_Drake on Saturday November 26, 2011 @06:54PM (#3281099)

Are the dots larger than average chunks of ice from the fuselage?

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