Watch NASA's live coverage of Mars rover landing

Sun Aug 05, 2012 6:56 pm » by **Soliti**

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:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57486 ... r-landing/

Sun Aug 05, 2012 6:59 pm » by **Tonyw**

I'm excited about the landing, i hope it goes well for NASA, if it doesn't i don't how they will get funding for the their next project. :nails:

Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:18 pm » by **Soliti**

Tonyw wrote:I'm excited about the landing, i hope it goes well for NASA, if it doesn't i don't how they will get funding for the their next project.

Same here.. I am sure it wil go well, they have landed before with no hitch.

Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:40 pm » by **Troll2rocks**

Thanks for this, this could well be the most important mission in NASA's entire history so far.

:cheers:

Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:42 pm » by **The57ironman**

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....where's frutty...?.... :peep:

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Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:59 pm » by **Reposoul**

So that's 4.30am for anyone like me who lives in the UK :owned:

Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:06 pm » by **Soliti**

Troll2rocks wrote:Thanks for this, this could well be the most important mission in NASA's entire history so far.

I am very excited, cant wait to see the pics that this mission will bring back, since there new camera is in HD..

Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:21 pm » by **Troll2rocks**

Soliti wrote:
Troll2rocks wrote:Thanks for this, this could well be the most important mission in NASA's entire history so far.

I am very excited, cant wait to see the pics that this mission will bring back, since there new camera is in HD..

Yeah, I was shocked at just how big the lander is,

and how complex this landing will be.

Then that crane drop flies away and crashes somewhere else.

Wow.

Fingers crossed.

Hope they capture it all in HD. :cheers:

Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:28 pm » by **The57ironman**

Troll2rocks wrote:
Hope they capture it all in HD.

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..you know they will.....

.....''the set'' is all ready to go..... :peep:

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Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:30 pm » by **Soliti**

Troll2rocks wrote:
Soliti wrote:
Troll2rocks wrote:Thanks for this, this could well be the most important mission in NASA's entire history so far.

I am very excited, cant wait to see the pics that this mission will bring back, since there new camera is in HD..

Yeah, I was shocked at just how big the lander is,

and how complex this landing will be.

Then that crane drop flies away and crashes somewhere else.

Wow.

Fingers crossed.

Hope they capture it all in HD.

Its the size of a SUV and ways 1 ton.... It will be traveling 13000 miles an hour torwards the ground and it has 7min to stop :obsessed:

.........Well lets hope they got there math right