MC2 Post 1345B Mars: What to Expect on Landing Night

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Link:  http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/mars-mission-what-to-expect-on-landing-night/
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Mars: What to Expect on Landing Night

The public is invited to tune in for a series of news briefings from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for the upcoming landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. See the schedule. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s rover Curiosity is scheduled to land on the surface of the Red Planet on Sunday, August 5.

Curiosity should actually touch down around 10:17 p.m. PDT, but with nearly 14 minutes of radio-transmission time between Mars and Earth at the time of landing, mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Caltech does not expect to receive confirmation of the rover’s landing until 10:31 p.m. PDT at the earliest.

Want to be a witness to this historic landing? NASA TV coverage online begins August 5 at 8:30 p.m. Pacific/11:30 p.m. Eastern.

Museums, science centers, and NASA visitor centers around the country will be hosting viewing parties and events. The

NASA TV coverage will even be broadcast on the Toshiba Vision screen in New York’s Times Square.

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Where to Watch Sunday’s Mars Landing 

LIVE Online

Link:  http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/04/mars-mission/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+%28VentureBeat%29

 
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