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grill n chill


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I have been following the Jet Propulsion Labs web site about Curiosity landing on Mars. Some fantastic links and videos are to be found there. At this minute of posting there is 1 day 14 hours and 53 minutes to go. The landing will be shown live. For those who fing this sort of thing interesting heres the link.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/



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.. thanks for that Peter!  Hopefully I'll be watching tonight ..

Jon



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Didn't know about this. I used to follow that stuff a lot.

Thanks for the info & link Peter, much appreciated.

Cheers.

Jon



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I think it's exciting. It will be interesting to know what they'll do with the information.

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they have landed whoooooosmilebiggrin

bloody exciting , im a trek fan and this is right up my ally!!or galaxy i should say!!



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Its on at aprox. 2.30 PM EST. Iam going to watch online at the NASA MARS site,Bill.

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I find this adventure very exciting. Representing The pinnicule of mans technological advancements.

The vision of a plutonium driven robot rumbling around testing everything it see for proof of life and more (evenDNA),investigating if humans could travel there and walk on Mars safely,and for the next ten years too is a special achievement.Amounst of things it carries on top of its mask a laser capable of vaporizing rock at 20 meters.  Watch out little green guys we are about to invade!

At time of posting 4 hrs and 26 minutes to go.     ,



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we might be flying around in something  like these



-- Edited by milo on Monday 6th of August 2012 09:38:09 PM

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and live streaming

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl/theater

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Fantastic.
Thanks for providing the link.

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I wonder if there may be some free camping sites in the future.....

mars.jpg



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Wow Milo, I'll take two of those.

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Among its main tasks is the analysis of Martian soils and atmospheric components. Curiosity became the third rover in NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project: its predecessors were Spirit, which operated until March 2010, and Opportunity, with which communication was lost in mid-2018. Building the rover and sending it to the Red Planet cost NASA $ 2.5 billion.

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