Friday 3 August 2012

Monday is M-day (Mars-day)

Best wishes to NASA for a successful landing of Curiosity on Mars on Monday after a two-year journey to the red planet.

(MSL Cruise phase. Source: NASA Press Briefing Kit

Seriously amazing technology - the Mars Science Laboratory & Curiosity Rover(Source: NASA Press Briefing Kit) .











Here's hoping that it succeeds in the serious science of the main mission goal of finding evidence of microbial life in Mars past.

Diagram of landing procedure (Source: NASA Press Briefing Kit) 

View William Shatner Curiosity video for NASA
View Wil Wheaton Curiosity video for NASA.

The Royal Institution also have a video  collection of resources.

Also, see All about Space magazine (Free preview of issue 2)

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