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Mars Lander Curiosity - Arrives Monday

Mantis

Brisbane, Queensland

955 posts

I believe it's around 3pm Monday afternoon. Hopefully all goes according to plan.

Some information:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nasas-mars-curiosity-11-things-you-may-not-know/2012/08/02/gJQA2VCYSX_gallery.html#photo=1

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Tollaz0r!

Brisbane, Queensland

12939 posts

It certainly is a bit of an epic plan. There must be some very nervous scientists and engineers this weekend.

09:14am 03/08/12 Permalink

demon

Brisbane, Queensland

6915 posts

live stream for the show on monday :) http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html

fingers crossed for a successful landing X,,

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09:38am 03/08/12 Permalink

Nerfy

Brisbane, Queensland

6302 posts

woot

09:40am 03/08/12 Permalink

Raven

Melbourne, Victoria

7251 posts

I just love the fact that they decided "We can't land it with rockets... so lets create a massive platform with rockets on it, and bungee-jump off that!"

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09:55am 03/08/12 Permalink

Dazhel

Gold Coast, Queensland

5124 posts

Yeah, pretty awesome especially from a systems design perspective.
There must be extreme pressure to get everything right at every stage - if one component doesn't do what it's supposed to do there's $2.5 billion that disappears in a puff of smoke.

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