[shizz]

Any chance they can delay the landing another 3 or 4 hours? :/

[murrayp4]

Incredible java thingy here:

http://eyes.nasa.gov/launch2.html?do...ts/msl/edl.xml

[shedweller]

Originally Posted by shizz

Any chance they can delay the landing another 3 or 4 hours? :/

Not a hope i'd say. The eyes on the solar system program at nasa shows MSL homing in on mars at an angle. Its like two cars meeting at a crossroads. There is no orbiting around mars beforehand, just straight in! Its a little unnerving actually!!

Edit: murray, thats exactly the program i am talking about. Its great!
Edit2: 181,899km to go!
Yeehaa!!!

[shizz]

Originally Posted by shedweller

Not a hope i'd say. The eyes on the solar system program at nasa shows MSL homing in on mars at an angle. Its like two cars meeting at a crossroads. There is no orbiting around mars beforehand, just straight in! Its a little unnerving actually!!

Edit: murray, thats exactly the program i am talking about. Its great!

Oh I'm well aware. Just a bad bad attempt at a joke. My apologies.

I'll probably be getting up at 6 for it.

[refusetolose]

press conference on nasa tv now

[jkforde]

this guy @msl_101 has a great EDL timeline on his site http://www.spaceflight101.com/msl-edl-timeline.html

oh, and a UTC PDF (TLAs rule the world don't they!) here http://www.spaceflight101.com/upload...61/msl_utc.pdf

[zenno]

Not long to go for the landing, I feel confident that it will be an excellent approach and landing. An amazing feat it will be.

[Mountainsandh]

watching the conference for the last 3/4 of an hour or so, it's great, even for an ignoramus like me who knows nothing about it (except for the 7 min thing).

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/eventwebcast/

edit : thought it would be too technical

[namloc1980]

Just passed 100,000 Km from Mars!!!

[namloc1980]

Originally Posted by murphyme2010

5.30 GMT or 6.30 BST

Because of the 13-14 minute light delay between Earth & Mars the actual landing will have already happened on Mars at 06:17 by the time we hear about it at 06:31.

Click here

[shedweller]

77,572km to go. Like a bat outa hell!

[lmao]

Current Distance to Mars: 34,155 Kilometers - 21,223 Miles -- Relative Velocity: 13,958kph (8,673mph)...............and counting!!!

[Ardent]

Not long to go now! Hope it goes well, seems horrifically complex to me. I'm not worried about the sky crane part, it's the thruster phase just prior I'm very worried about.

[lmao]

The MSL Spacecraft is now inside 30,000 Kilometers to Mars! (18,600 Miles)

[ThatDrGuy]

Any idea what kind of feed we will get from nasa tv ? Any of the mars orbiters imaging the landing ?