'Curiosity' to make unusual landing on Mars

[Mike]

In the meantime you can get live mission data for this mssion and many others at -

http://eyes.nasa.gov/index.html

[mickw]

I just hope they've use SI units everywhere this time !

Silicon Implants 

[Fay]

what is SI?

[mickw]

In the meantime you can get live mission data for this mssion and many others at -

http://eyes.nasa.gov/index.html

Doug Ellison (as seen at OAS) has just done a demo of this on NASA TV

[Mike]

Amazing!!! Curiosity is on the surface of Mars. I never thought it would make it down safely, especially with the history of previous landers. What an amazing engineering feat.

[mickw]

Fantastic achievement 

The JPL crew seem happy 

[Mike]

It's first image...



A crappy 256x256 image of the martian landscape, the sky and the lander wheel from the hazard avoidance camera.

[Mike]

Second image, it's own shadow.

[Fay]

Fantastic landing!!!!!!!! pictures as well

[Mike]

It's down at the moment due to high traffic but this website will show the raw images from Curiosity:-

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/

[mickw]

Here's a screen print of them -

[Fay]

pictures not showing on the site at the moment

[Fay]

ok showing now

[Delphine]

So exciting to watch live.  Looking forward to the science.

Delphine

[MarkS]

They definitely deserve the gold medal for that performance