Curiosity NASA rover touches down tonight

[squidmaster]

Anyone going to watch the live stream? I know I am.

I'm pretty excited.

I'd tune in around 9:45pm PST (12:45am EST).

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

[blefevre]

Hell yes! My wife operates the relay satellite (MRO), so it's been quite exciting the past month leading up to this.

MRO will be taking a picture of the decent, just like they did with Phoenix. Hopefully everything will work!

[e30rapidic]

yes sir!!

[squidmaster]

Wow I am honestly really jealous of your wife. I'm studying electrical engineering at the moment, and I plan to move onto photonics and optoelectronics to hopefully work on telescopes and groovy lasers and such.

I can't believe no one started a thread about this already... or maybe I can believe it.

[lambo]

Thanks for the reminder! I'd be pissed if I missed this...

[lambo]

I hate The Black Eyed Peas, but I very much respect will.i.am promoting science and shit.

[squidmaster]

I thought will.i.am was will smith's stage name? I have no idea....

[squidmaster]

now would bee a good time to tune in.

[blefevre]

Make sure to check out "eyes on the solar system" at the same time to see real-time 3d simulation on what is going on during landing. Good stuff.

[Bimmerman325i]

Link: http://eyes.nasa.gov/launch2.html?document=$SERVERURL/content/documents/msl/edl.xml

Badassery.

[hfabricius]

Im watching it as well. Really awesome

[lambo]

Science, man. Fuckin' Science.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Insane.

[hfabricius]

Fuckin awesome!

[squidmaster]

touchdown and communication

that was incredible.