The Curiosity Rover Landing
Landing will take place the night of August 5th, 1:30 AM eastern, 10:30 pm pacific, and 6:30 AM GMT (August 6th.) NASA will be streaming live here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html...
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Hello. I'm Hank Green. And welcome to the special edition of SciShow News. Eight months ago, the final stage of the Mars Science Laboratory's launch vehicle pushed the craft to 13,000 miles per hour. Ready for its journey to Mars. The Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity rover, is a massive interplanetary payload. The largest ever delivered to the surface of a planet, and five times larger than any previous rover. The logistics of getting it, not just to the surface of Mars, but to a very particular spot on the surface of Mars, boggle my mind. The calm of the eight and a half months of this journey will end as the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. Still traveling at around 13,000 miles per hour. At that moment, the craft will...
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Hello. I'm Hank Green. And welcome to the special edition of SciShow News. Eight months ago, the final stage of the Mars Science Laboratory's launch vehicle pushed the craft to 13,000 miles per hour. Ready for its journey to Mars. The Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity rover, is a massive interplanetary payload. The largest ever delivered to the surface of a planet, and five times larger than any previous rover. The logistics of getting it, not just to the surface of Mars, but to a very particular spot on the surface of Mars, boggle my mind. The calm of the eight and a half months of this journey will end as the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. Still traveling at around 13,000 miles per hour. At that moment, the craft will...
