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

[Crazy Eddie]

^ Or what if everything works perfectly and it sets down in a tiny crater with unclimbable walls.

Or worse: the landing works perfectly, but the rover sets down on an oversized rock and immediately rolls over upside-down seconds after landing.

 

[sojourner]

Or during the communication time lag Martians strip the thing and leave the chassis on blocks!

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Dude, they're landing on Mars, not Detroit.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Dude, they're landing on Mars, not Detroit.

Makes me think of that old joke, how can you ID a redneck Jedi?

His X-wing fighter is jacked up on cinderblocks on the front lawn.

Who knows, maybe some layman ideas could provide a novel solution that they couldn't see, being too close to the problem?

So true... lets hope everyone is using the metric system this time.

And the media push rolls on.


CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162...iosity-will-see-red-planet-like-never-before/

JPL: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/slooh-live-mars-show/

Times Square, anyone? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48428167/ns/technology_and_science-space/

 

[NebulaClassGuy]

Does anybody know if any of the news networks like CNN, FOX, BBC, or MSNBC will be doing any live coverage of the rover landing?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Who knows, do you get the NASA channel? Its on the basic package with DISH network.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

Does anybody know if any of the news networks like CNN, FOX, BBC, or MSNBC will be doing any live coverage of the rover landing?

Not a chance in hell. Your best bet if you don't get NASATV on your cable/satellite package would be to find a stream online. There should be plenty available.

 

[NebulaClassGuy]

Hmmm... I don't think I get NASA as part of the package I have. I'll check. If anything, maybe NASA or JPL will have a live video stream on their websites.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Not Mars Rover related, but encouraging all the same...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/nasa-awards-boeing-spacex-space-shuttle_n_1739058.html

 

[RobertVA]

Does anybody know if any of the news networks like CNN, FOX, BBC, or MSNBC will be doing any live coverage of the rover landing?

Not a chance in hell. Your best bet if you don't get NASATV on your cable/satellite package would be to find a stream online. There should be plenty available.

Wired Science:
Cross Your Fingers: How to Watch NASA’s Mars Rover Land on Sunday

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/how-to-watch-rover/

 

[NebulaClassGuy]

^

Oh, cool... thanks for posting that! I'll be sure to watch!

 

[FPAlpha]

I'll be at work when that thing does its controlled crash thing so all i can hope is a radio news report about the success but the first thing i'll do when i get home is to check the net for details.

I'm amazed at the complexity of the entire thing and the possibility that a tiny, non properly functioning thing for a few hundred dollars can ruin an entire 2 billion dollar project.

 

[SilentP]

Apparently Xbox Live is also doing a 'Live' Broadcast of the landing, so I may try and catch it on that.

 

[gturner]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nttnecwEku8&feature=player_embedded#![/yt]

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Wheaton does a much better job at this. Shatner is terrible.

 

[T'Girl]

Hmmm... I don't think I get NASA as part of the package I have. .

In Seattle on Comcast Cable, it's channel 76.

 

[M'Sharak]

Spaceflight Now should also be streaming live coverage of the landing at the following link:

http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/status.html

Also JPL's UStream channel:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

 

[Trekker4747]

Wheaton does a much better job at this. Shatner is terrible.

Turn in your Trekker card, now.

The Shatner is infallible. (Okay, Wheaton's reading was a bit better but damn if Shatner wasn't in all his Shatner.)

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

So damn excited.

 

[Nociod]

17 hours to go!

mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ has a countdown, info on the project and link to ways of watching the landing