Mars Attacks

Let us not forget that Sun. night (Mon. morning) Curiosity will land on Mars for the start of it's 2 year plus exploration in its search of "Ancient Aliens":wink: I already have plans to keep the tv tuned to the NASA channel, as well as the Science Channel, to watch this important event. Hopefully it will survive the landing better than my last rocket (LPR streamer recovery failure - streamer stripped free of the shock cord ) :eyeroll:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/main/index.html

Nice view?.....https://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/110926

I spotted the long haired bearded hippy in the bunch. looks just like some of the people I used to hang out with. Wonder how many fly model rockets in their spare time?

50 years ago everyone would have had a tie and most would be smoking a cigarette. I don't see either in this group, now it's bananas and peanuts.

Here's a graphic of the landing process:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=10776

I hope it goes well, but that is sure a complicated system with many potential points of failure!

They got that whole Metric conversion bug worked out, right?