- Before the tweeting happened...
- ACTIVATE WORMHOLE!
Dear @MarsCuriosity, Neil deGrasse Tyson here on Earth, tweeting you, via a wormhole, through deep space. Do you copy?- Dear @MarsCuriosity, How does it feel out there as you near planet Mars? Are you Cold? Hot? Or just right?
Dear @neiltyson, I'm snug as a bug in a backshell. My MMRTG gives power & heat. So much so, I use radiators to keep temps just right- Dear @MarsCuriosity, What exactly is giving power to your Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator?
- Dear @neiltyson, MMRTG is powered by plutonium-238. I use thermocouples to convert heat from its natural decay to electric current
- Dear @MarsCuriosity, just as I suspected. An element named after Pluto. Discovered when everyone thought the little iceball was a planet.
- Dear @neiltyson, for being millions of miles away it's faster than say... some TV broadcasts from London to Los Angeles ;-)
- Dear @MarsCuriosity, What's the size of your landing spot on Mars? Is it small? It's a whole planet, I'd be happy just to land anywhere.
- Dear @neiltyson, target area is 12 miles x 4 miles, right next door to some of Mars' most intriguing rocks & soil
- Dear @MarsCuriosity, Are all your parts working as they should? Anything you're not telling us back here on Earth? (I won't tell JPL.)
- Dear @neiltyson, all that's been checked out, checks out. Got a lot of calibrations & checkouts to do once I'm on the surface
- Dear @MarsCuriosity, Wait a minute. You travelled a 100-million miles in space & hit an area 12x4 miles? Cool. Way better than a hole-in-one
- Dear @MarsCuriosity, You've been traveling for nine months. How did you pass your time? Did they let you play "Angry Birds Space"?
- Dear @neiltyson, epic game of "I Spy," lots of Bowie. Well, that and science. I took radiation readings with my RAD instrument
- Hadley AndersenI thought this was really awesome when I saw it last night2012-08-06T01:02:35.508Z
