Is that peanut company paying any sponsorship money to the program
Declan
Want.
I presume NBC’s doing their footage for them? Everything from Mars is on an irritating 14-minute tape delay!
Aye! Nice ad for Apple, isn’t it? 
It’s powered by Plutonium-238 which has a half-life of 88 years, so the power supply is not the limiting factor. Many NASA missions start out with a 2-year planned life, and get extended for many more years if it’s functioning properly and producing useful data. Of course each extension requires additional operating budget to be approved.
Yep. They’re paid in peanuts.
Hell yeh! Thank god the mission wasn’t a faillure.
I wondered if they used Mission Control or LaunchPad?
what, the Macbooks? 
Another question, how good are those cameras on the rover supposed to be, or are they just glorified webcams.
Any chance they are Canon or Nikon
Declan
Even on Mars, the delay is only 14 mins; not 5 hours.
That one crashed on me at about 10 mins before landing, it’s back now. I had to scramble for an alternate source (UStream) to watch the landing.
I was just passing on the comment by the host on NASA JPL that the NASA regular site had crashed (but may be up now).
I believe they are HD quality, whatever that means for stills. But I do wonder if they’re capable of video…
Nasa just switched the feed to another room at JPL, looks like the battlestar galactica bridge
Declan
I think a shout-out is also in order for the 2001 Mars Odyssey, the Mars orbiter they’re using to relay the data from Curiosity. It’s a real trouper as well–been going strong in orbit around Mars for over 10 years now.
Oh great, now we wont be able to shut up the cult of HDR photos
Declan
News briefing in 10 minutes.
lol, mission is speechless
Declan
Does anyone know if there was video or even pics taken during decent? Seems to me they would have cameras pointing both up and down and activated during descent, seeing as how the Sky Crane was such a novel approach to landing.
Sorry if this seems Dickish, especially during the Olympics, and I know there is a lot of ugly things going on in the world,
but I wasn’t around for the moon landing, and this honestly makes my eyes well with pride for the U.S and my tax dollars
and shit… 
They are 1600x1200 and can operate up to 10 frames per second according to Wikipedia.
There’s no chance such a major mission would use commercial cameras. I expect they are designed specifically for space applications - i.e. ruggedized, radiation-tolerant, vacuum compatible, all electronics conductively cooled, etc.