[Merged] Who's watching the curiosity landing at 1:30am tonight?

[trixstar]

The curiosity is landing! Will you be watching this landing? It's the most difficult landing ever attempted on Mars and it's happening at 1:30am tonight, but be sure to tune in a bit before that!

You can watch it in SD at:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html


or HD at:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html

This is an animation of how the landing will happen:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU5On872QFs

[MeiserT]

Most expensive car crash coming up!!

[kingofwale]

not wasting my time waiting for 30 seconds clips. I will watch it online tomorrow without having to sit and wait for hours and hours

[appleb]

What exactly is there to watch?

[george__]

too late at night.. 1:30 am :|. But it is a civic holiday tomorrow...

[Simaahoy]

Yawn...

[fuzzy_avocado]

I'm so excited for this!!!

[dragon_drift]

not wasting my time waiting for 30 seconds clips. I will watch it online tomorrow without having to sit and wait for hours and hours

This. Need to sleep so I can function at work tmr. Too old to YOLO sigh.

[MrDisco]

Thanks for the link op. I will be watching for sure.

[Junigenmukyoku]

I'm so excited for this!!!

+1

[Justin]

Live:
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/mars/curiosity_news3.html

Landing is going to start in about 40 minutes. At 2.5 billion dollars, hopefully this thing does crash and spread its nuclear fuel over mars.

Interesting video on how this beast will land:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s

[KennethToronto]

Or watch the UStream feed. Currently 83,000 concurrent viewers. Have my fingers crossed!

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

[Tabooger]

Who's planning to stay up lol, how long does it take to land? Damn Rogers, I'm at the end of the month hopefully I don't go over streaming this.

Here are a few links I bookmarked earlier for the streams:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
http://www.ustream.tv/NASAJPL
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

[MkmBandit]

Another stream link from JPL

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

[ronin1701]

What's the deal with the peanuts? Hungry? Or lucky?

Edit: LOL - ok, lucky.

[Tabooger]

What's the deal with the peanuts? Hungry? Or lucky?

Edit: LOL - ok, lucky.

lol I thought it was some asian luck thing since it was passed from an asian reporter, but they had a story for that instead. 30 min left!

[Marcanadian]

Who's planning to stay up lol, how long does it take to land? Damn Rogers, I'm at the end of the month hopefully I don't go over streaming this.

Here are a few links I bookmarked earlier for the streams:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
http://www.ustream.tv/NASAJPL
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

Yeah, this is going to make my usage go over. Damn Rogers!

[wasserware]

Download this app to see live simulation of the landing:
http://eyes.nasa.gov/

[trixstar]

repost!!

[MeiserT]

repost!!


Merge merge merge... :lol:

[Tabooger]

Will there be an on board camera for the landing? Listening to them giving updates is not worth the stream, i can get written updates on websites lol

edit: guess not, pictures after landing

[MrDisco]

the stream is really good

[wasserware]

This simulation is the live simulation of the landing: http://eyes.nasa.gov/

[Kunman]

1:27 tunning in nao

[Blunt]

It's on the NASA channel too for those who have it...
so far so good, parachute opened properly..

[rf134a]

Touch down confirmed!

[Ironsmack]

Okay, so did it land??

I cant hear a thing!

[Tabooger]

Woot go science! Touchdown!!!

[MeiserT]

Dude in the back was like.... yeeeees... then silence... then roar.. :lol:

[wrcfocus]

Touchdown confirmed! Yes!!

[ronin1701]

Collective thought: "I've still got a job!"

[Corleone187]

Awesome! Faith in humanity restored!

[jaysfan4life]

I'm watching this on the NASA channel and it's a room full of computer geeks... #boring

[Blunt]

Pictures are coming in,...

ALIENSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

[akademiks]

All that crap and all they can manage is a 64x64 thumbnail..

GTFO Nasa.

[MaximDude]

So did they actually show the landing? I just tuned in and I only see alot of happy people.

And now a photo of Mars from the vehicle. :)

[Tabooger]

I'm watching this on the NASA channel and it's a room full of computer geeks... #boring

Were you expecting bikini clad chicks and half naked dudes landing the rover?

[MeiserT]

All that crap and all they can manage is a 64x64 thumbnail..

GTFO Nasa.


You have to realize the distance the data is traveling

64x64 first
then 256x256

and so on.

[Tabooger]

All that crap and all they can manage is a 64x64 thumbnail..

GTFO Nasa.

That's not bad considering half the webpages take a min or two to load on my cellphone in 3g right here on earth!

[ronin1701]

Were you expecting bikini clad chicks and half naked dudes landing the rover?

Deimos Shore?

[Tabooger]

So did they actually show the landing? I just tuned in and I only see alot of happy people.

And now a photo of Mars from the vehicle. :)

No they showed real-time computer simulation of the landing, I was expecting a stream of the video until someone pointed out the data travel lol

[Marcanadian]

First images:

http://i49.tinypic.com/10ifk12.jpg

[Marcanadian]

http://i49.tinypic.com/10ifk12.jpg

[trixstar]

anyone know the name of the hot asian JPL avionics chick?

[the_fm]

we finally have a visual proof of a group nerdgasm. yes! :cheesygri

[jaysfan4life]

See a BIG screen of Mars and a little screen of a room full of nerds.

[legendofxix]

Wow truly amazing and complicated landing system.

[jaysfan4life]

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[Blunt]

What a great achievement! Imagine all those years of work coming down to 7 minutes of terror..
I was giving it a 50/50 chance of success..

But then you'll have those people that will says it's been faked...

[Corleone187]

congrats humanity!

[_Allan_]

Rogers Channel 579 "NASA HD" carried it

[MrDisco]

A great pic to show the scale of the rover:
http://i.imgur.com/FdzQB.jpg

[Junigenmukyoku]

*****

+1 He must be blind because he was on the stream.

Congrats to NASA! It was such awesome moment! I was watching the simulation, it was pretty cool and tense at the same time! It was nice to see everyone filled with emotion after the landing. It's definitely a great achievement for the human race!

[desidealer49]

Nice landing.

The imgur links always give 403 errors btw :P

[wilsonlam97]

Wow truly amazing and complicated landing system.

Not worth 3.5bn IMO. Just watch the Chinese do a similar mission for 800million.

[wilsonlam97]

Nice landing.

The imgur links always give 403 errors btw :P

Imgur doesn't like people embedding pictures because then they're just a image file server and that means no ad revenue.

[sandikosh]

Ho Hum!

[trixstar]

Not worth 3.5bn IMO. Just watch the Chinese do a similar mission for 800million.

with decade old technology? I doubt that china can do better then the soviets when it comes to mars missions

[MrDisco]

The imgur links always give 403 errors btw :P

Some better links:

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/2694/293808curiosityco.th.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/293808curiosityco.jpg/)

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/7990/evolutionofrovers.th.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/841/evolutionofrovers.jpg/)

[cheapmeister]

So do you think the rover will find proof that life once existed on mars?

[Justin]

Image of the landing:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/673734main_PIA15978-43_516-387.jpg


Video of the landing:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149974611

[LordofthePing]

Cool vid of the landing:

http://youtu.be/gZX5GRPnd4U