Mars the final frontier

[DocDeth]

Mars landing tonight at 1:30 am Eastern time. 11:30 pm Mountain time.

Will it crash? Will it land OK? Will the cable not release and drag the lander away? Will it drop like a rock and smash its wheels off? Will the parachute fail to deploy and it screams to its death? Will the rocket motors fail to fire and then it plows in?

Such a complicated landing system. Its seems most likely to fail. Murphy's law.

[FETT]

Mars landing tonight at 1:30 am Eastern time. 11:30 pm Mountain time.

Will it crash? Will it land OK? Will the cable not release and drag the lander away? Will it drop like a rock and smash its wheels off? Will the parachute fail to deploy and it screams to its death? Will the rocket motors fail to fire and then it plows in?

Such a complicated landing system. Its seems most likely to fail. Murphy's law.  

I'd like to see this but it totally blows my mind that no regular TV station has stepped up to cover it yet. Doesn't anyone in the US care about watching these things on a TV anymore??!!

[DocDeth]

I watched it on the NASA site.

It landed successfully! Most impressive!

I hope they start taking color pictures soon.

What I want to know is: Why are there no microphones on the Mars Rovers? Wouldn't you like to hear what Mars sounds like? I know I would!

[FETT]

What I want to know is: Why are there no microphones on the Mars Rovers? Wouldn't you like to hear what Mars sounds like? I know I would!

I have a feeling they probably are already capturing sound, but are probably keeping that on the down-lo so we don't have to share that out just yet..

The thing is already beaming back the current Weather conditions on Mars so you can't tell me they can't get sound.. How cool would that be to see the Mars weather on The Weather Channel!! "And now, Mars local on the 8's.............."