sooo did it land?

What they need to do though? They need to launch a deep-scanning satellite in Mars’ orbit to scan deep underground. If there is life on Mars, it is subterranean.

Unless we find a Prothean artifact, I don’t care.

I’m trekkie so of course I’m excited but this is still a busy week for me! So tell how it all turns out.

It’s a really sweet Rover. Huge, powerful, loaded with equipment.
 
And no namby-pamby solar “dust collectors” for Curiosity. It’s entirely powered off of atomic friendship capacitors.

^^ What Clover said. Period.

I can’t wait to open the gates of hell! Long live based carmack!

If anyone wants a list of all the streams, they’re here.
 
I’m getting up extra early just so I can catch the landing. As for finding things - sure, probably won’t find evidence life ever existed. Then again maybe it will. And maybe we’ll only learn fascinating things about the geology of another planet and gain a better understanding of our own and how the solar system was formed. It’s all still awesome.
 
And apart from anything else, NASA is going to fire a vehicle at 10,000km/h into the martian atmosphere, brake it using the world’s largest flown heatshield, open a parachute at Mach 2, and then the lander will launch itself out from the parachute, fire descent rockets and then deploy the rover by crane from the sky.
 
Even if we find nothing out this is one hell of an engineering achievement.

Won’t find shit. But it’s pretty cool.

I’ve very interested, even if this is the first I’ve heard of it. Seriously news, we’re probing another world and you don’t even give it a millisecond of your olympics-filled day?

So what is this probe going to do that the previous ones didn’t?

I’m more excited for New Horizons. Even if it’s not due to arrive for a couple of years.

I doubt anything’ll be found.

Yes, I am. Gonna watch it live if my net connection doesn’t fuck up.

i hope to God everything goes right
 
one thing goes wrong and it’s just… done  
like, gone. No signal. Billions o dollars. Computer has to do everything right all on its own

Also, yes I am kinda excited. BecauseImanerdtoo.

Not gonna lie, I’ve been nerding out over it.

To check for suitable hospitable environments that could be used later on during colonization. If you’re serious Lium.

FUCKIN, I AM
 
I AM
 
C’MON TWI LET’S WATCH IT TOGETHER  
8 1/2 months in the making
 
My Little Human: Progress is Scientific

Why’re probing mars? Whta for? It’s just a loada rocks.

OMFG  
ROCKS, ROCKS EVERY WARE!!!!