Curiosity Lands On Mars in Two Hours!

[cybrsage]

Here is the live stream:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl


Exciting time! Landing a one ton rover on another planet.

There's already a P&N thread on this subject: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2262063
-DrPizza

 

[MomentsofSanity]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2262063

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2261919

 

[cybrsage]

The first is in Off Topic. This is the Politics and NEWS forum...and landing the rover on Mars is news.

The second is a pissing contest about how Obama is trying to destroy or not destroy NASA. This thread is about actually landing Curiosity on Mars.

If you want to talke about landing Curiosity on Mars, this is the thread for you. If not, then stay out of it. Anything else is off topic and infraction worthy.

 

[cybrsage]

Will.I.Am is on the live stream right now. He is a NASA ambassador to kids. I did not know this.

 

[tweaker2]

Thanks for the heads up cybr.

 

[cybrsage]

10:32 PM Pacific Time is when the lander is expected to touch ground.

 

[cybrsage]

Thanks for the heads up cybr.

I love space travel, foreign worlds, etc. I am interested to see if we find any signs of life in the soil which used to be covered in water. I hope we do.

 

[SagaLore]

I'm going to bed now, someone PM me the results, thanks

 

[cybrsage]

They are showing a pretty sweet 3D image of Curiosity.

 

[PJABBER]

Very nice of you to post this thread, cybrsage. Hope it stays on topic.

I am on the East Coast and won't stay up for the landing, but hope the mission is a successful one.

The mobility of Curiosity and the long life nuclear power system should be a boon to Mars discovery.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i thought the landing was at 1130, but that's just when the real coverage starts. i should really go to bed

 

[cybrsage]

I am east coast...but I am staying up. I will keep posting.

 

[DrPizza]

Landing an 800 pound rover on Mars.
Mars has a little more than 1/3 the gravity field strength of Earth. I've been thinking about watching it live, to see if it makes it.