Mars landing

[squirrel]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html

[tedly]

Sometimes, this is a really cool age to live in. I love this stuff!

[tedly]

Touchdown!

"Let's see where Curiosity will take us."

[squirrel]

Party time at nerd headquarters

I met one of those guys....he's involved in the high school robot competition

[Gary 351C]

Awesome! I love this stuff.

[Barry Donovan]

I watched the whole anticipating thing starting 2 hours before landing..awesome.

math at work.

[BangShift McT]

Been watching it for little less than an hour. Those last fifteen minutes, there were some damned scared people in those consoles...

[Barry Donovan]

Been watching it for little less than an hour. Those last fifteen minutes, there were some damned scared people in those consoles...

I thought they seemed confident.
those space landing things.. I still get a vibe good or bad a few minutes ahead. Started with the disaster in the 80s..watching it live on tv in school, I was 12.

imagine people on board one of these trips to mars. hahaha.

[oldschoolcamaro]

first pics sent back from curiosity just after it landed on the martian surface

[tedly]

There's going to be lots of nerds getting lucky tonight!

[oldschoolcamaro]

the martian rover "opportunity" launched in july 2003 and landed on the surface in jan 2004 is still active on the martian surface and still sending data/pics back to JPL

[Monk]

Party time at nerd headquarters

I met one of those guys....he's involved in the high school robot competition

I was wondering if you were on this...........cool stuff.

[tedly]

the martian rover "opportunity" launched in july 2003 and landed on the surface in jan 2004 is still active on the martian surface and still sending data/pics back to JPL

I'm sensing an chance for the first interplanetary drag race!

[LORENSWIFE]

Is it up there looking around? or is it just taking those cell phone pictures of itself and posting on Facebook and Match.com?

[TheSilverBuick]

On it's way down.

August 06, 2012

PASADENA, Calif. - An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16 meter) parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale Crater.

"If HiRISE took the image one second before or one second after, we probably would be looking at an empty Martian landscape," said Sarah Milkovich, HiRISE investigation scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "When you consider that we have been working on this sequence since March and had to upload commands to the spacecraft about 72 hours prior to the image being taken, you begin to realize how challenging this picture was to obtain."

The image of Curiosity on its parachute can be found at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ms...pia15978b.html

The image was taken while MRO was 211 miles (340 kilometers) away from the parachuting rover. Curiosity and its rocket-propelled backpack, contained within the conical-shaped back shell, had yet to be deployed. At the time, Curiosity was about two miles (three kilometers) above the Martian surface.

"Guess you could consider us the closest thing to paparazzi on Mars," said Milkovich. "We definitely caught NASA's newest celebrity in the act."

Curiosity, NASA's latest contribution to the Martian landscape, landed at 10:32 p.m. Aug. 5, PDT, (1:32 on Aug. 6, EDT) near the foot of a mountain three miles tall inside Gale Crater, 96 miles in diameter.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-232