Curiosity Rover almost there

NASA TV will be streaming the landing. I believe they are using UStream to handle it. Starts at 11PM EST.
 
Love the interview style in this promo, especially the lighting of the first guy Adam. Hard cut across the forehead, seems almost shifty and noir-ish.

I watched Opportunity and Spirit's landing in 2004. They fed directly from the control room and it was griping.

 
It's the last chance human's are going to have to do anything Mars related for decades unless Russia or China picks up the ball (China's the best bet but they've only reached 1970s levels of achievement so far if we're generous). Fingers crossed it gets down okay.
 
Well done NASA ....Woke up this morning to news that it has landed safely, the descent stage was mad...so many things that could go wrong but i understand their thinking
 
It was fun watching a solid two hours of high fives on the live feed. But this didn't even get 90 seconds on the news tonight. No wonder NASA's shutting down operations. The fluff piece at the end got a bigger slot.
 
This one is more than just a camera and a scoop, it's a veritable laboratory. Weighs a ton and has been dropped at a carefully selected site. It's mission is skewed more towards testing habitability and signs of life (or former life). It's a big step towards a manned mission as opposed to the previous ones which were more about just getting there and looking at some rocks. I over-simplify of course.

More detailed info here: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/overview/

These are the specific objectives for the next two years after which they'll find other ways to use it until it stops working:

Mars Science Laboratory: Mission Objectives
To contribute to the four science goals and meet its specific goal of determining Mars' habitability, Mars Science Laboratory has the following science objectives.
  1. Biological objectives:

  2. Determine the nature and inventory of organic carbon compounds
  3. Inventory the chemical building blocks of life (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and sulfur)
  4. Identify features that may represent the effects of biological processes

    Geological and geochemical objectives:

  5. Investigate the chemical, isotopic, and mineralogical composition of the martian surface and near-surface geological materials
  6. Interpret the processes that have formed and modified rocks and soils

    Planetary process objectives:

  7. Assess long-timescale (i.e., 4-billion-year) atmospheric evolution processes
  8. Determine present state, distribution, and cycling of water and carbon dioxide

    Surface radiation objective:

  9. Characterize the broad spectrum of surface radition, including galactic cosmic radiation, solar proton events, and secondary neutrons
 
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