05 August 2012

Reminder - Curiosity lands (or crashes) on Mars tonight

Streaming coverage on NASA TV begins Sunday 8/5/12 at 8:30 PM Pacific Time (8/6/2012 3:30 AM UTC).

Link to NASA TV stream.

Discussion re coverage here.
The first images will be from Curiosity's forward backward HazCam taken on the surface after landing. Bandwidth will be limited as Curiosity will communicate to Earth via satellite Mars Odyssey orbiting Mars (plus Mars Express and MRO).

It's possible we get first HazCam thumbnail (128x128) already during Odyssey's first orbital pass within minutes after landing, and bigger images (1024x1024) during Odyssey's second pass. More and better images will follow in sol 1 (next day).

6 comments:

  1. bobbieAugust 6, 2012 at 1:33 AM

    Talk about a gold medal effort!! Congrats to all the teams ~
    Thanks much for the link!

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  2. HeumpjeAugust 6, 2012 at 4:50 AM

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  3. MinnesotastanAugust 6, 2012 at 7:46 AM

    It was fun to see their joy last night when touchdown was confirmed and when the first photo of the wheel was projected on the wall.

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  4. AnonymousAugust 6, 2012 at 9:26 PM

    I don't have a television, and I had no idea that this was even occurring. Thanks to you, I stayed up and watched it from your link. It was awesome. Again, I thank you, sir.

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  5. BubAugust 6, 2012 at 11:08 PM

    I was pessimistic it would work, but they pulled it off so congrats to them.

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