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The NASA Curiosity Mars Rover has touched down safely and is beaming back pictures! Years of cutting edge engineering have finally culminated in one of mankind's most technological achievements to date.

Edit: The first picture transmitted by Curiosity: http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/...to/1/large

Also edited to fix the name. It's Curiosity, not Spirit...

Edit 2: A different, slightly larger image: http://twitter.com/NASA/status/232352483...to/1/large

Can't wait till they have the lens cap off and then the full color pics can come in.

I wanted to watch the whole thing live but I was asleep. Stupid timezones.

Remarkable achievement indeed.

Same here.
But hopefully I can find it on Youtube somewhere.

(2012-08-06, 10:47 AM)Fábio Maia Wrote: [ -> ]I wanted to watch the whole thing live but I was asleep. Stupid timezones.

Remarkable achievement indeed.

As far as watching the NASA channel live, you didn't miss much. For one thing, the feed was a minute behind because of the whole "processing for streaming online" deal. They also didn't have any video from the landing itself (which was kind of disappointing, it would have been cool if Odyssey had at least snapped a few pics). It was nice seeing their reactions to the success of the different stages, with the biggest two being confirmation of a successful touchdown and the first picture transmitted (at 500 bits per second IIRC! Top of the line).

Definitely watched live. It was definitely awesome but hopefully the discoveries that will result from it will be more awesome.

The raw photos are available here: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ (site has been on / off)

And here: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/

Hopefully we'll have higher resolution photos soon.

Does anyone know where I can watch the entire live coverage? At least the most important parts. I searched YouTube, but all I was able to find was some news reports.

(2012-08-06, 06:14 PM)Fábio Maia Wrote: [ -> ]Does anyone know where I can watch the entire live coverage? At least the most important parts. I searched YouTube, but all I was able to find was some news reports.

NASA have the footage from the last 11 minutes: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogall...=149933921

Looks cool but I see no martians

(2012-08-06, 10:54 PM)Polarbear541 Wrote: [ -> ]Looks cool but I see no martians

Me neither