NASA Curiosity Landing - 1:30 AM

• tk421

  

  Don't know if anyone is aware of this or even interested, NASA Curiosity is scheduled to land on Mars at 1:30 this morning. Live on NASA TV and on Ustream.
  
  http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl
• gorocks99

  

  Hell yeah, I'm watching NASA TV tonight.
  
  Seriously.
• tk421

  

  still over 16,000 miles from Mars, amazing. Traveling at 8,900 MPH.
  
  https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity
• gorocks99

  

  Here's the NASA computer simulation to track progress: http://eyes.nasa.gov/
• I Wear Pants

  If you're awake and not watching this you're doing it wrong.
• tk421

  

  lol, I saw a twit complaining about NBC tape delaying an even less than 6000 miles away and the delay for NASA Curiosity landing 154M miles is only 15 minutes.
• tk421

  

  here's the media channel, seems to focus more on the control room with audio feed.
  
  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-media-channel
• tk421

  

  now within orbit of the moons of Mars, also on autopilot now. JPL have cut uplink, not issuing commands anymore.
• tk421

  

  that computer simulation is really cool
• tk421

  

  Curiosity already either crashed or on the ground, waiting on the time delay.
• tk421

  

  parachutes deployed.
• tk421

  

  touchdown!
• tk421

  

  getting images.
• tk421

  

  
• I Wear Pants

  Fucking awesome.
• said_aouita

  

  
• tk421

  

  I think you've got a shopped image. Don't think the faint guy was in the first images. lol, be cool if that picture was real, though.
• said_aouita

  

  tk421;1240840 wrote:I think you've got a shopped image. Don't think the faint guy was in the first images. lol, be cool if that picture was real, though.

  (I knew it was shopped...lol.)
  
  I like this one too.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Pretty amazing. Lands on Mars and minutes later sends back a picture.
  
  And I can't get Direct Tv to keep working when a small rain cloud passes over.
  
  
  
  
  The legit pic
  
  
  
• tk421

  

  yeah, it's pretty cool we can get a picture back within 15 minutes of landing on Mars, but can't watch someone win the 100M less than 6000 miles away live.
• believer

  

  tk421;1240847 wrote:yeah, it's pretty cool we can get a picture back within 15 minutes of landing on Mars, but can't watch someone win the 100M less than 6000 miles away live.

  NBC didn't broadcast the Mars landing live either.
• Glory Days

  

  I Wear Pants;1240809 wrote:If you're awake and not watching this you're doing it wrong.

  and this is different from any other mars landing because......?
• believer

  

  Glory Days;1240854 wrote:and this is different from any other mars landing because......?

  Well....it's a much BIGGER rover and bigger is always better!
  
  Plus this time - maybe THIS time - they'll actually find a few fossilized organic microbes and a couple o' drops of H2O and it'll have been "worth" the 2.5 billion taxpayer dollars spent in a CRAP economy. :rolleyes:
• Glory Days

  

  believer;1240856 wrote:Well....it's a much BIGGER rover and bigger is always better!
  
  Plus this time - maybe THIS time - they'll actually find a few fossilized organic microbes and a couple o' drops of H2O and it'll have been "worth" the 2.5 billion taxpayer dollars spent in a CRAP economy. :rolleyes:

  every rover sent to mars along with every other planet and space object has been looking for water and other signs of life!
• believer

  

  Glory Days;1240860 wrote:every rover sent to mars along with every other planet and space object has been looking for water and other signs of life!

  True. I just scratch my head at the priorities. Even if they find what they looking for, how does that benefit the taxpayer? Oh yeah - knowledge. I forgot.
  
  Why not spend the 2.5 billion dollars on finding a cure for breast cancer for example? My sister will appreciate it.
• SportsAndLady