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Where To View the Mars Curiosity Landing

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

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?"

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  1. Socialism by sa666u · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'll be joining the Fraser Cain hangout on G+. BA will also be there. :)

  2. Some of the best space coverage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Planetfest Worldwide by ahecht · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  4. Re:Your eyes by wooferhound · · Score: 4, Informative

    A better Idea would be to watch Streaming NASA TV

    Streaming NASA TV
    http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

    NASA TV on USTREAM
    http://www.ustream.tv/blog/2012/07/31/get-excited-the-mars-rover-landing-will-be-live-on-ustream/

    --
    We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
  5. On TwiT.tv by opkool · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

  6. Re:Your eyes by Teancum · · Score: 4, Informative

    I happen to like SpaceVidcast:

    http://www.spacevidcast.com/live/

    They frequently stream NASA TV, plus you have a chatroom full of space nerds who more often than not have answers to almost any technical question you can think up. The only problem comes if they are crushed with visitors, but I've seen them handle 20k simultaneous users before. The chat room gets sort of nuts when you have that many people, so it isn't perfect.

    Ben and Cariann also do color commentary when things get pretty slow, but also know when to shut up (unlike the NBC commentators for the Olympics).