Curiosity Landing tonight

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#1

Links to watch live streaming coverage of Curiosity’s landing:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl will carry a feed including commentary and interviews.

The NASA TV Media Channel and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 will carry an uninterrupted, with only mission audio.

The landing will take place at 5:31 UTC on August 6. That is 1:31 a.m. EDT on August 6, 00:31 a.m. on August 6 CDT, 11:31 p.m. MDT on August 5, 10:31 p.m. PDT on August 5 in the United States. If you are outside the U.S. then you can check on the time offset for your location here: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/

For all viewers, coverage begins a couple of hours before landing.

To follow on Twitter: @MarsCurosity @NASAWatch @NASA360 ; trending on #MSL and #curiosity

#2

I am so much more excited about this than the Olympics or any other live event this year. Maybe the election will get close but I can’t wait to cheer on this “little” rover

#3

Images from the Curiosity rover can be found at these sites, the second of which is down right now due to heavy traffic load on the site.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-indexEvents.html

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/raw/

#4

And that, folks, is how you do that.

WOO HOO!

I’m trying very hard not to run around giggling and throwing papers in my office.

-Trey

#5

Very awesome. I just wish I wasn’t at work with crappy Internet when this happened. But oh well, at least I could follow it :slight_smile:

#6

I feel the same way. I got up 2 1/2 hours before my normal wake time to “witness” this event coverage. I haven’t turned the TV on for the Olympics and prolly won’t for the elections in a few months.

#7

Just announced data acquisition! And XKCD.com strikes again: http://xkcd.com/1091/

ETA: Live coverage ends on NASA TV and most of the last data was robot status. Plus a few images. This one with dust covers off. Gale Crater rim (Curiosity is in the crater itself) is in the upper right corner of the image.

#8

I would have really liked to watch this, but it was 1:30 AM my time. Lots to catch up on already.

#9

NASA’s HiRise (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) image of Curiosity’s descent!

#10

I’m actually surprised there aren’t so many more GWC’ers geeking out in here. Such a perfect end/beginning to so many years of hard work. Curiosity…GOOD GIRL! YOU’RE SO GORGEOUS! YAY, YOU!

-Trey

#11

That is an awesome pic. I wonder how it’d look as a background…

EDIT: If anybody finds one with no white square around the parachute, send it this way. I can edit it out but would much prefer an original image.

#12

Hooray for engineers.

//youtu.be/Ki_Af_o9Q9s

rub your stainless steel pinky rings ladies and gentlemen :slight_smile:

OB

sons of Martha.

#13

I have to admit it was easier for those of us in Australialand…landing time was just on 3.00pm.

Don’t worry, I’d say there’s lots of GWC’ers geeking out on the inside…

#14

Haven’t seen it non-annotated. But there are more pictures up now including on with locations for all the landing hardware. It’s annotated of course. There are also LARGE (over 500 MB) .tif files on the HiRise site but I haven’t been able to get them to load to see what they look like. Site is here: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/releases/msl-descent.php

#15

Buzzfeed’s Best of the Internet’s Reaction to the Mars Rover Landing. Memes that is…

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-internet-responds-to-the-mars-rover-landing

#16

Landing Curiosity on Mars is an incredible achievement. Well done and congratulations to all involved. Now just keep Wolowitz away from the controls and all will be fine!

#17

Replying to my own post? Unpossible!

I found the raw image, all 550 MEG of it, and cut out a nice background for myself. Anybody who wants it, I’ve linked it below.

I could crop out any other size pretty easily if anybody would like.

#18

The Discovery Channel is finally getting around to airing a special event about the Curiousity landing tonight.