Awesome pic of Curiosity descending

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   johnbrown

   August 6, 2012 at 11:59 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment

   Cool, I was a little frustrated about the (unavoidable) lack of real time info about Curiosity. I’m glad NASA was on the case!

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   fastlane

   August 6, 2012 at 12:04 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

   If/when the video of the last minute or so of the landing (according to rumors) gets uploaded, you better link to it! =)

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   Sunday Afternoon

   August 6, 2012 at 12:18 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

   Simply stunning!

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   Marcus Ranum

   August 6, 2012 at 12:30 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

   I was thinking that a great budget-booster would have been good quality video of the descent. C’mon NASA – get with the prime-time bread and circuses already!!

   (I have some 1080p video shot from one of the space shuttle launches, of the booster separation and the Earth receeding. That stuff is marketing gold.

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   davidmc

   August 6, 2012 at 5:39 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

   FANBLOODYTASTIC!

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   StevoR

   August 8, 2012 at 1:55 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment

   Cheers for this! :-)

   Hope you don’t mind if I note this link :

   http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/06/curiosity-update-heat-shield-spotted/

   Via the Bad Astronomy blog which has a bit more detail here including the ejected heat shield about to hit the martian sands too!

   Watche dthis unfolds on NASA-TCV at thetime. Superb to see.

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   StevoR

   August 8, 2012 at 1:58 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment

   D’oh. That’s :

   Watched this unfolds on NASA-TV at the time. Superb to see.

   Natch.

   Also, natch, we had to wait a little longer for this MRO photo of the Curiosity‘s descent and the later video from the craft itself to come through. Jaw-dropping stuff.