The NASA rover Curiosity is expected to be landing on Mars at 3:31 am August 6, 2012 (AEST). It’s mission, lasting one Martian-year (98 Earth weeks), is of scientific significance and perhaps even of human significance. Curiosity will be fulfilling the prospecting stage of a step-by-step program of exploration, reconnaissance, prospecting and mining evidence for a definitive answer to the question “Has life existed on Mars?
Is there life on Mars? Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity go roving
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I commented on the landing of Curiosity on mars; here is a video that portrays the “7 minutes of terror” of the landing on Mars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s
On the day I will be at the NASA Deep Space Network at Tinbindilla, just outside of Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory. There we will be live from NASA and receiving the first transmissions from Curiosity. Hopefully we will see scenes like these from the successful Phoenix landing at the Martian North Pole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH5pNFROlYU&feature=relmfu
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