Less than 4 hours until Mars rover landing
Aug. 5th, 2012 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sepdetWell,I feel a little less lonely than usual in my passion for space doings. The current mission is actually getting a tiny bit of news coverage.
i've been following some of the mission briefings. Bummed I missed the invitation to bloggers and social media folks -- I will have to figure out if there's a way to get on the list even if I'm operating out of Twitter and other venues rather than Facebook. At this point, with almost 50 space-is-cool articles under my belt, and with the amount of space news that creeps into my Twitter feed, I might start to qualify.
Anyway. Good luck Curiosity!
Its twitter channel is a hoot; whoever is answering questions on the robot's behalf at JPL has a great sense of humor. Pretty quiet now, though,as they enter final countdown.
i don't think any of myDW/LJ friends are going to be following this, but just in case, I'm going to join the livestream on the rover's website when it starts at 8:30. if I can, I'll be claiming the handle sepdet [UPDATE: but too busy liveblogging to keep up with the chatroom].
They'll have live video from mission control plus a chatroom. Crossing fingers and toes!
i've been following some of the mission briefings. Bummed I missed the invitation to bloggers and social media folks -- I will have to figure out if there's a way to get on the list even if I'm operating out of Twitter and other venues rather than Facebook. At this point, with almost 50 space-is-cool articles under my belt, and with the amount of space news that creeps into my Twitter feed, I might start to qualify.
Anyway. Good luck Curiosity!
Its twitter channel is a hoot; whoever is answering questions on the robot's behalf at JPL has a great sense of humor. Pretty quiet now, though,as they enter final countdown.
i don't think any of myDW/LJ friends are going to be following this, but just in case, I'm going to join the livestream on the rover's website when it starts at 8:30. if I can, I'll be claiming the handle sepdet [UPDATE: but too busy liveblogging to keep up with the chatroom].
They'll have live video from mission control plus a chatroom. Crossing fingers and toes!
