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Where To View the Mars Curiosity Landing
An anonymous reader writes "In addition to the NASA mission pages here's a decent list of links showing where you can view the Mars Curiosity Landing online or at an event. Does anyone have recommendations for other sources of coverage on August 6?"
Of course, you have to look a little harder than usually...
I'll be joining the Fraser Cain hangout on G+. BA will also be there. :)
I've found spaceflightnow.com has some of the best coverage of space missions around. They usually have live updating mission status center and live streaming video and I'm sure this event will be no different.
I would say there's plenty of great reasons for wanting to watch this - witnessing a fairly major event in history (possibly even more major depending on what it finds on the planet), seeing science hard at work, watching how millions of dollars and collaboration between thousands of people can pay off.
However, ultimately, the reason many people will be watching is purely to be there if something goes wrong. There'll be fireworks, or at least some sort of graph that suddenly dips.
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For those blessed with living near JPL in Southern CA, there usually is a big event at Pasadena City College (where I viewed a few previous landings). I think there are very knowledgeable speakers from JPL who are usually there (along with the media). Maybe this was one of the suggestions in the link posted above, I couldn't access the site.
JPL by the way has a great series of monthly(?) free to the public lectures on its various deep space programs, often given by the lead investigator! A great way of nerding out.
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I figure the edit history of Mars Science Laboratory will get me up to speed on anything important.
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Looking through the Mars Express cameras at the smear of wreckage on the ground as another imperial to decimal units calculation goes astray!
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When I was fairly young, I remember being allowed to spend the night at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia by myself to watch the first moon landing live. The moon landings certainly inspired a generation of engineers and scientists. I'm not sure what the equivalent is today? (Watching Wall Street and becoming a hedge fund manager?)
If you want to read a great book about JPL, check out "Moon Hunters: NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar Systems". Out of print, but probably available in your library.
There is a much more comprehensive list of viewing parties organized by the Planetary Society at http://www.planetary.org/get-involved/events/planetfest-2012/worldwide.html
It's where NASA films all their best stuff.
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
You can watch it virtually using this online tool:
http://eyes.nasa.gov/index.html
Will let you visualize the Mars rendezvous and "I think" the decent.
I am genuinely impressed we are able to land a car on another planet in such a complicated manner and not have anything fail.
Though i am jealous NASA gets to drive a nuclear powered car for 2 years+. While my car needs to be refueled every week.
I'll watch it at TwiT.tv -> http://twit.tv/2012/07/30/mars-landing-special-aug-5th-10pm-pdt
The presenters/guests to this event will be:
Jonathan Strickland (How Stuff Works) -> http://www.howstuffworks.com/jonathan-strickland-author1.htm
Dr Kiki (Dr Kiki Science Hour) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Sanford
Phil Plait (Bad Astronomer) -> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/20/mars-attacks-of-the-show/
Steve Sell (JPL, Sky Crane) -> http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/30jul_skycrane/
Hope they do a good job!
Peace!
Harlem? Detroit? Just bring a nice large plasma and satellite rig and set it up in your local ghetto to find out how much they care about all those tax dollars going to get nice desktop pictures and take potting soil samples.
I plan to stay up until 1:30am to watch it regardless, but what should one expect to see during the descent? Will there be footage from a camera on the rover or the craft itself? If so, will one see anything prior to the heat shield's detachment? Will it be daytime on Mars during its descent? Or will one simply see a graph of some sort?
I mean, if there were a stream of its approach to Mars I'd be watching it right now (is there one?). I've already got the live ISS stream set as one of my desktop backgrounds (quite inspirational to see it every day, and it never gets old).
And while I'm on the topic, does anyone know what one should expect in terms of day-to-day video footage assuming the rover lands successfully? I hope I don't come across as only seeing NASA (or any other space agency) as a source of pretty and interesting desktop backgrounds. The information learned from these missions is interesting enough on its own, but it makes me feel a bit more connected and it does a lot for the experience if I can actually see it.
Astrophysicists from Cornell's program will be on hand, giving presentations from 11:45 p.m., Aug. 5, to 3 a.m., Aug. 6, in G01 Uris Hall.
https://www.facebook.com/events/204514239677263
not at PCC.. (JPLers who don't have actual work to do on Sunday night have been exiled to CalTech and PCC and Pasadena Civic Auditorium, but it's "sign up months in advance and have your wristband").
For general public there's an event at
Planet Fest 2012 at Pasadena Convention Center, run by the Planetary Society.
http://www.planetary.org/get-involved/events/planetfest-2012/
$19-37 depending on your demographic category (age, member of PS)
And the event at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium (run by someone else)
http://www.ticketmaster.com/CURIOSITY-LANDS-ON-MARS-tickets/artist/1758097
$20 at box office, more from ticketmaster
And, of course, for free on NASA TV
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They'll be streaming it live at Livingroom Theaters in Portland, OR. It's a small boutique theater. Livingroom Theaters homepage.
The doors for the screening will open at 9:00p, with landing expected to occur at around 10:30p. Admission, which is limited to patrons 21 and over, is FREE, but you must reserve a spot in advance by sending an email to: curiosity(AT)livingroomtheaters.com.
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I got my wormhole device all warmed up and ready to go!
I'm not sure if it's available in all programming packages, but Dish Network currently carries NASA TV on channel 212. It will move on Aug 8th.
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Are you telling me none of you have enough magnification in your telescopes?? Pathetic...
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The rockets and part of the probes were built by Denver area companies (United Launch Alliance, Lockheed Martin, Ball Areospace, Southwest Research Institute.) Reps from these companies will give lectures Sunday night. Then they will watch NASA TV for the 11:31 MDT landing and "first pictures" expected around midnight. The best of the three relay satellites- Odyssey- has been balky the past few weeks, so the telemetry might be slower than expected.
There's only one place to view the Mars landing - Gale Crater, Mars.
Here on Earth, you're just going to be watching a bunch of talking heads looping the same animations we've all been watching for months and repeating the same breathless quotes about the difficulty of the landing. They could pre-record the thing in two versions (one for a successful landing, one for a failed landing) and you'd never know the difference.
Me, I have an event I'm organizing over the weekend... If I'm awake on Sunday night, I'll watch the talking heads. If not, no biggie.
Check to see if you have UWTV2. If you don't, hook up the coaxial and do a scan using a TV with an ATSC tuner. You might have to flip through it a lot, but it might have it, even if it's not available as an analog station. That's my case here, last I checked. Although, I do not guarantee that they will carry NASA TV at the moment it happens, so prepare to have a backup solution if it's a must for you.
Set up your dish and tune into the Martian Cable News Network Phobos feed on M band for coverage of their intercept efforts.
So far the overall intercept rate has been about 70%. However the M.A.F. hasn't had much luck shooting down those pesky US built rovers.
Don't bother with trying to get audio. Martians hear in the IR band.
Same solution as everything else: timeshift it. Defer source-selection until after some other chump sucker has done all the hard work. Let someone else figure out which videos cover it best. Then a few hours/days later, see which videos are being raved about, and watch them.
This is the very best, most sastisfying, least time-wasting, most educating, most convenient, fastest, least-bandwidth-intensive, most efficient approach, and it works just as well for NASA as it does for all other forms of news which don't involve nuclear attacks, tornados, or other stuff like that.
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In Toronto there is a party at a downtown bar (Hotel Ocho), with drinks, costumes, and live streaming of the PlanetFest event.
http://www.marsparty.ca/
(I'm not involved with it, I'm just planning to go).
In Toronto there is a party at a downtown bar (Hotel Ocho), with drinks, costumes, and live streaming of the PlanetFest event.
http://www.marsparty.ca/
(I'm not involved with it, I'm just planning to go).
What are we going to be watching exactly?. They've said we will not get any pictures or video (from the pod that drops the rover) for two days after the machine has landed. So I guess we can all tune in to either watch some people shouting 'Yay!!' with their hands in the air; or, some people quietly sobbing if it's a failure.
Does anyone know why the landing is so late? I am in California, and the landing isn't till 10:30pm here, so my kids probably won't be in bed till after 11 on a school night. It is even worse for east coasters. Couldn't NASA have scheduled the landing for US prime time to get more viewers and interest? Maybe this is the only time the rotation of both planets is lined up right.
That's what I'd like to know!
Just off the top of my head (maybe a space geek can spruce this up), I think that this is how it will go down:
MSL is designed to send a continuous stream up data points as the EDL progresses, but it is going to be tricky to get the info to Earth. During the beginning stages of EDL, MSL will send simple tones at 128 points during the EDL. These will go direct to Earth and, hopefully, be picked up by the deep space network. But, alas, Earth will set after a couple of minutes and this line of communication will be closed. Hopefully by then Odyssey will be above the horizon and be able to do a "bent-pipe" relay of MSL telemetry (I am not sure if this will just be the tones or more). Alas this does not last long either and the best we can hope for is 1-2 minutes of telemetry from the surface via the bent pipe before Odyssey sets and the link goes silent. Next Odyssey's next pass will be 3 freaking hours later for those nuts (like me) that want to stay up to 4:00 am to get the info.
It is hoped that one or two MARDI (descent imager) thumbnails can be uploaded and maybe a hazcam shot of the immediate regolith in front of the rover can be relayed to Earth in the first or second Odyssey pass.
Xbox Live has a cool setup with short movies on the landing and the rover technology and you can watch the landing live. I think this is a great thing as it will target many kids.
WNYC's excellent program, RadioLab will have a Google Hangout and possible a meatspace meetup somewhere in the Lower East Side in NYC.
Headliners for their event include:
Side note: RadioLab is a production of New York's NPR affiliate. Apparently the show is just a couple years old and apparently it's not carried on stations everywhere. If you haven't heard it, and you like science, check out their podcast. It's quirky, incredibly well produced, and overall very well done.
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That would be some nice seating, indeed
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Why from Mars offcourse
Every fcking article I've read on the subject buries the time somewhere in the article if they include it at all. I don't want a goddamned slideshow, I want to figure out when (and, once I've determined I'm able to, *then* how and where) I can see it happen live.
20:30 PDT Sunday night, right?
I plan to watch it from the surface of Mars, about 0.5 km south of the landing target. Should be a fine show.