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NASA is using satellites to stream the landing of the mars curiosity.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/h...llery.html

Here are ways to watch:

http://spaceindustrynews.com/where-to-vi...nline/420/

(08-03-2012 11:50 AM)tiger2000 Wrote: [ -> ]NASA is using satellites to stream the landing of the mars curiosity.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/h...llery.html

Here are ways to watch:

http://spaceindustrynews.com/where-to-vi...nline/420/

Thanks for the heads up. I haven't been keeping up with it, but it seems touchdown is going to happen right around 12:30 Central Sunday night / Monday morning.

Curiosity is expected start the landing at 12:30 am EDT (August 6th)

With Mars looming ever larger in front of it, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft and its Curiosity rover are in the final stages of preparing for entry, descent and landing on the Red Planet at 10:31 p.m. PDT Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT Aug. 6). Curiosity remains in good health with all systems operating as expected. Today, the flight team uplinked and confirmed commands to make minor corrections to the spacecraft's navigation reference point parameters. This afternoon, as part of the onboard sequence of autonomous activities leading to the landing, catalyst bed heaters are being turned on to prepare the eight Mars Lander Engines that are part of MSL's descent propulsion system. As of 2:25 p.m. PDT (5:25 p.m. EDT), MSL was approximately 261,000 miles (420,039 kilometers) from Mars, closing in at a little more than 8,000 mph (about 3,600 meters per second).

it will either be a huge technogical achievement or a $2 billion lawn dart. if they pull this stunt off, hats off to em cause it sounds nuts to me.

(08-05-2012 09:46 PM)tigerjeb Wrote: [ -> ]it will either be a huge technogical achievement or a $2 billion lawn dart. if they pull this stunt off, hats off to em cause it sounds nuts to me.

I'm sure it's pretty cool for all the rocket scientists. They get $2 billion to see where they can send stuff.

Incredible. Hope it continues to do this well.

Touchdown confirmed.

Holy crap it worked!

Hires images from the surface of mars.

Incredible.

completely amazing that they pulled it off.


First run live test of the landing sequence. Now go find bacteria.

I'm sure you've all see this by now.... first photo from Curiosity...

It's amazing the special effects they are using.

I just hope Curiosity can start the reactor and free Mars.

Here's an image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of Curiousity with it's chute deployed. I stayed up way too late watching all of this live. Still really fascinating.

(08-06-2012 12:35 AM)tigerjeb Wrote: [ -> ]Holy crap it worked!

If you haven't seen it, here's an amazing video of the intricate and complex landing procedure. Absolutely astonishing that nothing went wrong.

http://spaceindustrynews.com/nasa-curios...video/115/

(08-05-2012 09:46 PM)tigerjeb Wrote: [ -> ]it will either be a huge technogical achievement or a $2 billion lawn dart. if they pull this stunt off, hats off to em cause it sounds nuts to me.

The rocket that laucnhed it was made over in Decatur, AL and some of the components of the system were made here in Huntsville.