Sunday, August 5, 2012

Curosity Rover to Land on Mars

I visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA and watched the Curiosity rover being built.  Here are some photos of the clean room in which the craft was being assembled:


[I haven't found them yet.]


At 8:30 p.m. PDT, JPL promises to begin streaming live coverage of the landing.  At approximately 10:30 p.m. PDT, Curiosity is due to touch down on the surface of Mars.  Here is the site that promises to stream live coverage of tonight's landing.


Here and here are links to the official NASA pages describing the vehicle.


Here is an article from the New York Times on the upcoming Mars landing.

14 comments:

  1. A live stream of Mars? That could be pretty damn cool until they find the stuff they aren't supposed to.

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  2. This is so cool man, I can't wait to see the Mars landing itself. Thanks so much for introducing me to Lemmings by the way, I honestly can't get enough of playing it.

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  3. I had heard about this landing sometime recently. Kewl stuff.

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  4. I got to it late. I was writing and I finished RIGHT when it landed.

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  5. This is pretty cool, now we have pics of dust and rocks... yeah.

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    1. first color pic has been released! of more sand and rocks...

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  6. Grah, I missed it, but I did want to see it. Off to find video.

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  7. Omg, how awesome!!! I have to look this uppp :)

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  8. It's super awesome. I loved all the cheers from the tech guys.

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  9. yes finally it landed and just now nasa released color pics

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  10. Hmmm... was not sure what you were talking about first.
    www.thoughtsofpaps.com

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  11. I'm loving the HD pictures it has been sending back.

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  12. The title of this post reminds me of my fav TV prog The Big Bang Theory. Thanks for stopping by my blog and following.

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