The ROVER is landing LIVE (on MARs) NOW. Link.

[thetinymagic2]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/08/watch-tonights-mars-landing-live-here.html

[Jordan Catalano]

It's exciting!!!

[thetinymagic2]

Just like 1969! i JUST LOVE NERDY SCIENTISTS! Party time.

[Jordan Catalano]

I cried when they all got excited at the landing. I'm such a wussy.

[Wynbish]

I would love to be in that room for five minutes. After that, claustrophobia would set in.

Jordan, you're all feels tonight between Sorkin and this.

[Addison D.]

“The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.”

– Alexei Leonov

[NYadgal]

Really exciting.

Congratulations, NASA!

[Mister Matt]

But will they broadcast in 3D?

[Jim Colyer]

I listened to George Noory and Coast to Coast last night as he and his guests covered the landing of Curiosity on Mars 35 million miles away. Curiosity is the biggest and most complex rover yet. It is powered by nuclear energy and has 17 cameras. It is in the Gale Crater and will slowly make its way toward Mount Sharp at the crater's center. George and the Coast to Coast gang are already anticipating fossils from a time when Mars was warmer and wetter. We shall see. The project cost $2.5 billion.

Curiosity will travel 12 miles in two years, analyzing soil and looking for a habitable environment. It will look for water, carbon and sources of energy, three requirements for life.

Curiosity is controlled from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

[ErikJ972]

I'm in love with Bobak Ferdowsi.
I call him Bo