Mars Rover to launch this weekend.

[Scunner]

That's obviously where the Prothean ruins are.

[Black Heart]

Mojave desert? 1/2 a mile from the lunar landing site ?

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Will be landing in less then a week from now.

[Kopfjaeger]

i wish the Mars orbiter was in position to watch the entry interface

[private_hell]

its going to be good

[Black Heart]

Nuclear powered, I didn;t realise that, now the martians will think we're attacking. I watched Captain Scarlett, these fools have doomed us all!

"This is the voice of the Mysterons, We know you can hear us."

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

The Rover will be landing Monday 6th August at 5:30pm our time (NZ time) according to my calculations.


Lots of info here
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

[Plasma]

On a semi-related topic street view at the Kennedy Space Center.

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/gallery.html#!/nasa

[Bounty Hunter]

Nasa tv will have coverage right?

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Nasa tv will have coverage right?

Yes

8 Hours to go.

The NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter (launched in 2001, named after the 1968 film '2001: A Space Odyssey'), will be in position to pick up the confirmation singnel that the rover has landed, it will then transmit back to Earth.


It will just be a confirmation signal at first, no images will come untill hours later.

[Growler]

What no live stream? WTF!

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

What no live stream? WTF!

Live stream of what?

[private_hell]

they are probably fighting fox for hte rights to broadcast them...

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

What no live stream? WTF!

There will be live streams of the NASA control room and stuff.

There cant be any live streams of the landing on Mars because;
1. There's a 14 minute delay.
2. The bandwidth is limited, and required for important landing stuff.
3. There's no guy standing on Mars with a video camera.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

It's amazing to see how far things have come over the last 50 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars#TimeLine

Intrestly, it was Russia who first landed a rover on Mars, this one;



It was supposed to be deployed from the 1971 lander 'Mars 3'.
Mars 3 had the first successful landing on Mars, however 15 seconds after it landed it ceased transmission and the rover could never be deployed.

NASA's Viking 1 landed successfuly 5 years later.

[Growler]

however 15 seconds after it landed it ceased transmission and the rover could never be deployed.

NASA's Viking 1 landed successfuly 5 years later.

It's a known fact it was transformers.

This is the last thing it broadcast.

[Kopfjaeger]

The Rover will be landing Monday 6th August at 5:30pm our time (NZ time) according to my calculations.

did you calculate that in metric or imperial ?  

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

did you calculate that in metric or imperial ?  

This caption on wikipeida made me lol

Mars Climate Orbiter returned this one image of Mars in 1999 before crashing into it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars#Probing_difficulties

Picture of Mars far away

next minute, crash.

[mattnz]

There will be live streams of the NASA control room and stuff.

There cant be any live streams of the landing on Mars because;
1. There's a 14 minute delay.
2. The bandwidth is limited, and required for important landing stuff.
3. There's no guy standing on Mars with a video camera.

But surely someone has a smartphone?

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

You can totally see it.

[private_hell]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/watch-live-curiosity/

[mattnz]

That's the exact thing I posted, 'cept funneling traffic to Wired.

[Black Heart]

So far so good.

[Bounty Hunter]

state of jesus in the middle there taking photos on his iphone

[private_hell]

true but it has other videos at the bottom of it - looking at JPL etc

[Speakman]

so many fake and gay comments in the chat lol