Live Link thread for all who want to watch The rover tonight..

www.nasa.gov...

right now they are having a news conference about the Rover and the weather condition on mars tonight..

Also, they are taking questions from the media.

Pretty interesting for those of you who are going to watch...

www.nasa.gov...

I'll check up on this when i can. Strict Data usage for my internet (2gb piece of crap)

And your quote. Why resist the madness? It is intoxicating

First pictures should be up within 4 minutes of landing..

hopefully they will be broadcast live also..

The weather on mars haha, that just makes me laugh. This is gonna be epic, heck yes i'm gonna watch it!

Cheers for the link.

BTW for anyone wondering, it's supposed to land around 10:30 PM PST tonight (Sunday August 5th)

Thanks for the info, I will be watching tonight.




Peace

I really hope the decent goes well. One of the most complicated landing sequences for a Mars rover. If she does land, I hope the pictures come in crystal cear and the expieriments go well.

Hopefully, life will be discovered....again.

This NASA channel/live feed is actually pretty informative..

For you Americans, How many hours til they land on Mars? I don't know the timezone in Houston. Thanks

O.K. it's on repeat of what was shown earlier..

still lots of good info...

Originally posted by MoneyIsWorthless
For you Americans, How many hours til they land on Mars? I don't know the timezone in Houston. Thanks

edit on 5-8-2012 by MoneyIsWorthless because: (no reason given)

Watch Curiosity's Landing!
Aug 5, 2012 10:31 p.m. Pacific
Aug 6, 2012 1:31 a.m. Eastern
Aug 6, 2012 5:31 a.m. Universal
Countdown to landing:
0 days:10 hrs:18 mins
Watch NASA TV Show Online
Begins Aug 5:
2012 8:30 p.m. Pacific 1
1:30 p.m. Eastern
Source

hope this helps.

Originally posted by Anishnaabe

Originally posted by MoneyIsWorthless
For you Americans, How many hours til they land on Mars? I don't know the timezone in Houston. Thanks

edit on 5-8-2012 by MoneyIsWorthless because: (no reason given)

Watch Curiosity's Landing!
Aug 5, 2012 10:31 p.m. Pacific
Aug 6, 2012 1:31 a.m. Eastern
Aug 6, 2012 5:31 a.m. Universal
Countdown to landing:
0 days:10 hrs:18 mins
Watch NASA TV Show Online
Begins Aug 5:
2012 8:30 p.m. Pacific 1
1:30 p.m. Eastern
Source

hope this helps.

edit on 5-8-2012 by Anishnaabe because: (no reason given)

Thanks for posting that..

that should help people in different time zones...

Apparently its going to be a few days before we see the video of the landing , maybe a few weeks before the first high res picture and maybe a few months before they drive it anywhere to do some experiments.

For the dutch viewers.....

Expected touchdown at 7:31 am (dutch-time) monday morning.

source: here

Originally posted by baddmove

Originally posted by Anishnaabe

Originally posted by MoneyIsWorthless
For you Americans, How many hours til they land on Mars? I don't know the timezone in Houston. Thanks

edit on 5-8-2012 by MoneyIsWorthless because: (no reason given)

Watch Curiosity's Landing!
Aug 5, 2012 10:31 p.m. Pacific
Aug 6, 2012 1:31 a.m. Eastern
Aug 6, 2012 5:31 a.m. Universal
Countdown to landing:
0 days:10 hrs:18 mins
Watch NASA TV Show Online
Begins Aug 5:
2012 8:30 p.m. Pacific 1
1:30 p.m. Eastern
Source

hope this helps.

edit on 5-8-2012 by Anishnaabe because: (no reason given)

Thanks for posting that..

that should help people in different time zones...

Yes, it helps.
I usually waste a looooong time trying to figure out what the hell EDT, etc, means for me.
They should always add the UTC time of these things..

Originally posted by PhoenixOD
Apparently its going to be a few days before we see the video of the landing , maybe a few weeks before the first high res picture and maybe a few months before they drive it anywhere to do some experiments.

If that is true..

then what the heck are we supposed to be watching the live link for????

Originally posted by baddmove

Originally posted by PhoenixOD
Apparently its going to be a few days before we see the video of the landing , maybe a few weeks before the first high res picture and maybe a few months before they drive it anywhere to do some experiments.

If that is true..

then what the heck are we supposed to be watching the live link for????

I just heard it on NASA TV so i dont really know. I guess its just going to be a lot of footage of the people at NASA monitoring the landing?

Seems a bit strange to me..Starting to wonder if misheard.

You can watch the landing in simulated 3d Eyes on the solar system

Originally posted by zatara
For the dutch viewers.....

Expected touchdown at 7:31 am (dutch-time) monday morning.

source: here

edit on 5/8/2012 by zatara because: (no reason given)

Yep, 7:31 am it is. I will watch it, and I hope everything will go alright.
hopefully I won't sleep through it!!

8 hours to go!

im going to go to work tomorrow on maybe 2 hours of sleep which is fine with me.

the sad thing about america is not one person i work with out of 120 will even have a clue we just landed a kick butt robot on the surface of mars over night.