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sepdetAugust 5, 2012, 10:21PM PST. Six days. Curiosity Website here.
Am I the only one on tenterhooks about this insane, utterly THIS... IS.... NASAAAAAAAA.... attempt to drop a car-sized rover onto the Martian surface?
Trying to land heavy things on Mars is HARD. Yes, even harder than the Moon.
And to think I teased my Dad for the airbag bouncy-bouncy-bouncy-bouncy-bouncy deployment of the little Pathfinder rover (the size of a skateboard, so it didn't take so much effort to slow it down, just big airbags and a lot of bounces). He worked on the airbag portion of that project. It was silly, but at least it wasn't something that appears to have been designed by the Mythbusters on an all-night bender.
ETA: Curiosity Rover has its own Twitter Channel. The robot is answering questions about itself. Good luck, big guy!
ETA: Curiosity hands out snark over NBC Olympic coverage:
Curiosity Rover @UncleMurf @nbcolympics Only a 14 min delay from Mars! It can't be helped; it's the one-way light speed time for signal to reach Earth.
