Mars Curiosity Landing on Mars Today!!

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Hoping there are some other space geeks here - today is the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity!

Here are some Space dot com links with more information about the landing and rover:

http://www.space.com/16385-curiosity-ro ... atory.html

http://www.space.com/16503-photos-mars- ... guide.html

... but you can always just Google "Mars Curiosity Landing" and come up with a whole heap of links on your own!

Wohooo. Going to be watching today!


http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/

This link becomes live at 8:30pm pacific time, 10:30pm landing

Awesome - and thanks for the live link - that's great stuff!
It's so exciting - can't wait for the first manned missions to Mars - actually, I'd like to be a part of them, but it takes ages so I'm enjoying all the interim space-geekery!

I dunno- chemical rockets scare the crap outta me. You have one shot to get there and one back!

That said, I'd risk it in a second. Earth sucks.


Here's hoping they find a crashed ship or something useful. **Fingers crossed**

I'd love to get blasted away from earth by a rocket

Just having that amazing, giant red landscape to explore would be really awesome in itself!

Just don't do it in the dark ... and especially don't try to climb inside those big "termite mounds"

Being serious now; I'm really hoping for a successful landing; by all account it is somewhat precarious using new techniques to slow and land.

I remember the excitement from many years ago when the (forgot the name of the lander now) did three experiments to determine if there was microbial life on Mars and all three gave positive results! However, for reasons unknown, this public announcement by NASA was turned on its head and they said they had made a mistake and the results were due to some unusual chemical reactions with the clay. Hmmmm. I've been wondering ever since what really happened there. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if microbial life is found, considering there has been water there, and still is here and there.

LOLz can you imagine what you would find in there?? I think it's pretty much a jungle waiting to be explored.

Well, to be honest, I don't hold out much hope for finding evidence of life on Mars, but I'm really more familiar with the surface - which as we all know is an arid dessert with little atmosphere - I have no idea what is going on beneath the surface! Would be exciting, wouldn't it - to find interesting things there!

But just imagine this - you can take a vacation from Earth which will last you... er... what is it... about a two or three year round trip? I think I might even miss the earth after being away that long... although I'm not 100% sure about that

Mars is worse.

ruyven

Space (vacuum) sucks even more!

Oooh oooh - I thought of one: Black holes suck the most This is a fun game.

hope it doesn't turn into an ignominious pile of junk.

Since NASA is so obsessed with Mars, I wish the Russians or Chinese would start sending probes to Titan.

From what I've been reading, the Japanese have started long term planning to send manned missions to asteroids (mining).

I wish they'd go check those weird looking tubes found on the surface. What are those things?

The landing was a success.

it seems to have landed in one piece.