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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by ChuckMcM on Sunday August 05, 2012 @10:17PM (#4343435)
... and 14 minutes later we know the outcome. I've not been this excited/worried/thrilled/paniced about a space mission for a while. :-)
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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by sp332 on Sunday August 05, 2012 @11:27PM (#4343576)
Actually, it might take a lot longer than that! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t7p08hcQzs
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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by kellishaver on Sunday August 05, 2012 @11:12PM (#4343541)
I'm very excited/nervous. I haven't felt this way about a space mission in a long time. My daughter (she's 10) made me promise to wake her up for it.
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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by ramidarigaz on Sunday August 05, 2012 @10:55PM (#4343505)
I have proper butterflies in my stomach right now. I hope nothing goes wrong...
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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by ajays on Sunday August 05, 2012 @10:17PM (#4343436)
Will the PBS stations broadcast this event live? Or will I have to depend on the Internet gods and stream from ustream.tv?
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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by skarip on Sunday August 05, 2012 @10:28PM (#4343451)
Not sure about PBS tonight but I'm going to be watching direct from NASA: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/
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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by guelo on Sunday August 05, 2012 @11:13PM (#4343544)
This link looks more live, http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by trafficlight on Sunday August 05, 2012 @11:13PM (#4343543)
There's a live blog plus the ustream here: http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/status.html

It's starting to get a little bogged down though.

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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by 6ren on Monday August 06, 2012 @12:01AM (#4343662)
"If you are watching from a mobile device or slower connection, watch the Mobile Feed for NASA Television Here"

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-mobile (but it's off air right now)

Actually, the HD channel has a 240p option (see "best" on the toolbar), which works fine for me http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html

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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by sage_joch on Sunday August 05, 2012 @11:17PM (#4343551)
I don't remember this much excitement over the 2004 landings. This is pure speculation, but I would like to think the Internet is partly responsible for this shift. It provides a more democratic way of deciding (as a culture) what is important and newsworthy.
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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by freehunter on Sunday August 05, 2012 @11:29PM (#4343580)
There's that, and also that this is a pretty interesting landing compared to previous landing methods. There's been a lot of hype over just the landing gear. I've got non-techie friends who are tuning in just to see the engineering feat.
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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by joering2 on Monday August 06, 2012 @12:50AM (#4343780)
I find myself more excited because of the complexity of this task. 7 minutes of terror? Rockets fighting Gs while crane is lowering the vehicle down? All done by computer with none help from humans (as you know in flying computers are awesome at straight flying (autopilot) but horrible on landing, something here seems to be all about).

Looking forward seeing this mission succeed. And wouldn't be surprise to see some of those grownup man at the cockpit letting some loose. I know if I was in charge of this mission, I would pee all over myself, if succeed!

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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by waterlesscloud on Sunday August 05, 2012 @11:55PM (#4343641)
What are we really going to see tonight?

I assume statuses?

Video isn't possible, even delayed. And I suspect photos will be delayed for processing?

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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by halefx on Monday August 06, 2012 @12:11AM (#4343682)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-softwar...

Looks like we might not see any images until about 3:30 EDT

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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by ramidarigaz on Sunday August 05, 2012 @10:53PM (#4343498)
My workplace is hosting a landing party. I can't remember the last time I was this excited for something!
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Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Ton... by emeraldd on Monday August 06, 2012 @01:34AM (#4343885)
And they just announced touch down!
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