Watch NASA's rover landing live

[Locutus]

You know, if that's your thing and you're up that late.

Anyway, story with links and the NASA TV page:


Curiosity is scheduled to land in the Red Planet's Gale Crater late Sunday or very, very early Monday, depending on your Earthbound time zone. Confirmation of the landing should come at about 10:31 p.m. PT Sunday for folks on the U.S. West Coast, or 1:31 a.m. ET Monday for those on the East Coast. The rover will have actually touched down before that, but there's a 14-minute communications lag time for signals traveling the 154 million miles from Mars.


The space agency will begin its live coverage Sunday evening at 8:30 p.m. PT / 10:30 p.m. ET on the NASA TV site and will also show the coverage via UStream:



Watch NASA's live coverage of Mars rover landing | Cutting Edge - CNET News

NASA - NASA TV

 

[Kreskin]

8:30 is past my bedtime.

Actually, if I remember to watch I will. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Walter]

An engineering marvel.

 

[Liberalman]

An engineering marvel.

In the earlier press conference they are expecting problems and a possible failure but they did say that there are stake holders with deep pockets to fund another mission.


The team is concerned of a crafts roll that might not happen and they won't find out until after eight hours after landing.


If they can only land the craft far from a populated area then there would be fewer problems.

 

[Locutus]

If they can only land the craft far from a populated area then there would be fewer problems.

 

[Kreskin]

Coming in for landing over next few minutes

NASA - NASA TV

There must be some serious bonus checks for landing. The NASA staff have gone wild.

 

[BaalsTears]

I am surprised that so many Canadians are interested in an American space project. Why is that the case?

 

[Kreskin]

I am surprised that so many Canadians are interested in an American space project. Why is that the case?

Interested in what the liberal geeks are doing.

 

[damngrumpy]

Actually much of the equipment that will be working the science is Canadian
engineering so naturally Canadians are interested the networks have been
talking about this for a couple of weeks.

 

[BaalsTears]

Ok, Canadians have a legitimate interest in the American Mars landing. In the meanwhile, I have to dodge gangbangers. As a result the Mars landing means nothing to me.

 

[Praxius]

I am surprised that so many Canadians are interested in an American space project. Why is that the case?

Regardless of who's sending it to the planet, it's still an interesting project that can gain a lot of information on what goes on, on Mars.... people have interest in our surrounding planets all over the world.

I don't think most care if it's the US, Russia, Japan or Jordan who sends the probe or gathers the information... it's the information most people care about.

I saw a bit of information on this project over the weekend and how the thing is planning to land, etc.... it's a pretty complicated project and if it all works out (or worked out, I didn't watch anything yet on what all happened or if it happened yet) then good job US.

What's the matter Eagle?

Shocked??

 

[BaalsTears]

Not shocked. Just surprised at the interest. With the infrasturcture in America deteriorating there are better things to do than explore the heavens.

 

[WLDB]

Not shocked. Just surprised at the interest. With the infrasturcture in America deteriorating there are better things to do than explore the heavens.

There were better things to do in Europe than to fund expensive expeditions to go exploring the oceans, but they still did it. There were also better things to do in the US during the 1960s than sending people to the moon, but they still went. We'd never get anywhere if we just though there are better things to do at the moment.

Though I must say I am surprised at the interest as well. I've followed the space programs quite closely since I was very young. I've never seen this much interest or excitement around any of the other probes or space flights. The only big space news story I remember was the crash of the Columbia (Challenger was before I was born). I'm hoping the interest lasts and gets things going a bit faster.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

... there are better things to do than explore the heavens.

That parochialism has vexed NASA from the beginning, and it's never been true, the research and innovation the space program has generated has more than paid for it. Basic research, knowledge for its own sake, has always paid off, ALWAYS, often in unpredictable and surprising ways. The miniaturization of electronic components that makes the computer you use to post here possible is one outcome of the space program, and the basic science in electromagnetics and quantum theory that enables it all was done approximately between about 1830 and 1930. When we stop doing things like that, all progress stops.

 

[BaalsTears]

Well, enjoy the spectacle. What you see is a vestige of an older America now largely gone.

I once supported the American program of space exploration. Now there are figurative Visigoths and Vandals wandering unmolested through the streets of a figurative Rome.

What remains of America is forced to borrow money from the Chinese in order to explore space. This isn't sustainable.

 

[Locutus]

It's like theater of the mind.

Anywho, plenty of nerd-win in the video:

BBC News - Nasa's Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars

• (A) Curiosity will trundle around its landing site looking for interesting rock features to study. Its top speed is about 4cm/s
• (B) This mission has 17 cameras. They will identify particular targets, and a laser will zap those rocks to probe their chemistry
• (C) If the signal is significant, Curiosity will swing over instruments on its arm for close-up investigation. These include a microscope
• (D) Samples drilled from rock, or scooped from the soil, can be delivered to two hi-tech analysis labs inside the rover body
• (E) The results are sent to Earth through antennas on the rover deck. Return commands tell the rover where it should drive next

stay tuned

 

[eh1eh]

Well, enjoy the spectacle. What you see is a vestige of an older America now largely gone.

I once supported the American program of space exploration. Now there are figurative Visigoths and Vandals wandering unmolested through the streets of a figurative Rome.

What remains of America is forced to borrow money from the Chinese in order to explore space. This isn't sustainable.

The Western world is Wal-Marting and McDonalding itself to financial ruin and ill health. NASA is a vestige of hope. I feel though they are only getting funding so the military can use the technological advances from all that research. The war machine is always looking for the next 'velcro'.

 

[BaalsTears]

Maybe so.

 

[Walter]

NASA is a vestige of hope.

Yet the Bamster is destroyng NASA. One of the only good things he has done. Private companies will be moving into space to exploit it. Elon Musk to the rescue.

 

[B00Mer]

Yet the Bamster is destroyng NASA. One of the only good things he has done. Private companies will be moving into space to exploit it. Elon Musk to the rescue.

Is this all this forum is about to you.. bashing Obama, spewing your hate towards a man because of his color and giving out red negs..

You're nothing but a racisat troll.

I can give you negs to.. lots of them. ;-)