General Discussion

All best wishes and hopes to NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover today. This SUV-sized rover – the largest NASA has ever attempted to place on Mars – is due to attempt its daring landing on the Red Planet at 10:31 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on August 5 (5:31 UTC on August 6, 2012).

And 06:31 BST Monday 6 August - you can catch it on NASA TV at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

Here's an amazing picture of the Curiosity lander parachuting down to the martian surface.

Thanks for the link, NASA tv has an amazing iPad app. AWESOME cgi of it landing on mars. ..... helped me work, rest & play ;-) 

The cost of this project over a billion dollars do we really need to spend huge amounts in space when the world is in crisis ??

The world is in crisis?   No one told me.