Curiosity has landed!

Max, August 5th, 2012 

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NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on Mars

After an eight-month voyage across 352 million miles of interplanetary space, the Mars Science Laboratory plunged through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and landed today, enduring “seven minutes of terror” in an action-packed descent that culminated with a rocket-powered “sky crane” to lower the one-ton nuclear-powered rover to the surface.

What to expect in coming days…

6 Comments »

  1. Cat-eyes wrote,

    “happy happy joy joy” – the message inside Curiosity’s fortune cookie.

    Comment on August 6, 2012 @ 6:40 am

  2. byronius wrote,

    That is just so cool.

    Comment on August 6, 2012 @ 7:15 am

  3. byronius wrote,

    Comment on August 6, 2012 @ 7:18 am

  4. byronius wrote,

    Comment on August 6, 2012 @ 7:22 am

  5. Max wrote,

    Nerdgasm.

    Comment on August 6, 2012 @ 9:30 am

  6. Cat-eyes wrote,

    Keeping in line with what has become my tradition of non-sequiturs, but that in some circles might be a mini-nerdgasm here’s an interesting new finding on QIP (quantum information processing).

    Comment on August 6, 2012 @ 10:18 am

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