Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 - Page 4

Gov Kodos · August 6 2012, 05:00 AM

Ha, I'm on vacation and it's the middle of the afternoon here. Great time to watch a Mars landing.

Sparky · August 6 2012, 05:02 AM

http://http://eyes.nasa.gov/

You can load a realtime simulation of what is happening. pretty damn cool

Gov Kodos · August 6 2012, 05:09 AM

And NASA Tv has an ongoing stuff which is fun to follow. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

In about 30 they are letting the ship go on its own down to Mars.

Chris3123 · August 6 2012, 05:32 AM

Gov Kodos wrote:

And NASA Tv has an ongoing stuff which is fun to follow. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Those with an Xbox360 can watch live streaming of NASA TV on Xbox Live. You can get to it from the main page of the dashboard.

brian577 · August 6 2012, 05:46 AM

Anyone with a Roku can watch it on the NASA Channel

Chris3123 · August 6 2012, 06:23 AM

2 minutes until atmosphere entry...

YellowSubmarine · August 6 2012, 06:26 AM

So, Curiosity is on the surface right now. Any bets if it has crashed or it if has landed?

Chris3123 · August 6 2012, 06:27 AM

YellowSubmarine wrote:

So, Curiosity is on the surface right now. Any bets if it has crashed or it if has landed?

No, it hasn't landed yet. It's in the atmosphere though.

ETA: Parachute deployed!

YellowSubmarine · August 6 2012, 06:30 AM

Chris3123 wrote:

No, it hasn't landed yet. It's in the atmosphere though.

Does that mean that my projected Romulan subspace transmitters have reached NASA earlier than I expected then?

YellowSubmarine · August 6 2012, 06:32 AM

Landed

It's alive

Chris3123 · August 6 2012, 06:32 AM

Curiosity has landed!

The guys in Mission Control are going nuts.

ETA: And were' getting images...

M'Sharak · August 6 2012, 06:32 AM

Touchdown confirmed.

Edit:

Aaaaand thumbnail image received.

Psion · August 6 2012, 06:34 AM

I don't freaking believe it! Well done to the engineers who made that amazingly complicated landing sequence work!

NebulaClassGuy · August 6 2012, 06:36 AM

YAY! She's on Mars, and everything is green across the board!

YellowSubmarine · August 6 2012, 06:38 AM

Psion wrote:

I don't freaking believe it! Well done to the engineers who made that amazingly complicated landing sequence work!

I told you this crazy complicated thing had no chance of landing.

August 6 2012, 05:00 AM	#46
Gov Kodos Vice Admiral Location: Gov Kodos Regretably far from Boston	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 Ha, I'm on vacation and it's the middle of the afternoon here. Great time to watch a Mars landing. __________________ “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi

August 6 2012, 05:02 AM	#47
Sparky Commodore Location: Calgary, Alberta. Canuckistan	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 http://http://eyes.nasa.gov/ You can load a realtime simulation of what is happening. pretty damn cool __________________ January 2, 1955 - January 23, 2012. Love you Dad. Keep pedalling towards those planes.

August 6 2012, 05:09 AM	#48
Gov Kodos Vice Admiral Location: Gov Kodos Regretably far from Boston	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 And NASA Tv has an ongoing stuff which is fun to follow. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html In about 30 they are letting the ship go on its own down to Mars. __________________ “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi

August 6 2012, 05:46 AM	#50
brian577 Captain Location: United States of Equestria	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 Anyone with a Roku can watch it on the NASA Channel

August 6 2012, 06:23 AM	#51
Chris3123 Vice Admiral Location: Pensacola, Florida	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 2 minutes until atmosphere entry... __________________ "I can't tell the future, I just work there."

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August 6 2012, 06:26 AM	#52
YellowSubmarine Commodore	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 So, Curiosity is on the surface right now. Any bets if it has crashed or it if has landed? __________________ R.I.P. Admiral James T. Kirk (2233-2267, 1969, 2267, 1930, 2267-2268, 1968, 2268-2269, Serpeidon Middle Ages, 2269, 2237, 2269-2286, 1986, 2286-2293, 2371)

August 6 2012, 06:32 AM	#55
YellowSubmarine Commodore	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 Landed It's alive __________________ R.I.P. Admiral James T. Kirk (2233-2267, 1969, 2267, 1930, 2267-2268, 1968, 2268-2269, Serpeidon Middle Ages, 2269, 2237, 2269-2286, 1986, 2286-2293, 2371)

August 6 2012, 06:32 AM	#57
M'Sharak Definitely Herbert. Maybe. Location: Terra Inlandia	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 Touchdown confirmed. Edit: Aaaaand thumbnail image received. __________________ I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split. — Kurt Vonnegut

August 6 2012, 06:34 AM	#58
Psion Commodore Location: Lat: 40.1630936 Lon: -75.1183777	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 I don't freaking believe it! Well done to the engineers who made that amazingly complicated landing sequence work! __________________ First delete the default cube.

August 6 2012, 06:36 AM	#59
NebulaClassGuy Lieutenant Commander Location: Dallas, Texas	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 YAY! She's on Mars, and everything is green across the board!