Mars Landing tonight!

Someone get me my freaking tinfoil hat.

I'm still waiting for the moon to retaliate since we did fire a missile at it

Touchdown as of 10:32 PM PDT!

Update - Real touchdown time - 10:14 PM PDT

They got pictures!

This is pretty dang awesome.

Watching the Nasa livefeed, these guys at control are going crazyyy, I don't blame them though, huge accomplishment
Now I have to stay up all night waiting for pictures

Courtesy of NASA TV livestream:

GO SCIENCE!


Now I'll be waiting for what we learn from it!

I think it's pretty cool how close their expected calculations are to the actual numbers

Damn, I missed the streaming of this. : \

What exactly should we be scared of? That the martians start attacking? Lol.

They discover cursed ancient Marsian temple and the curse of God "Marsimus" will be casted on the human race of earth.

POM POM POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!

INB4 unnecesary drama

POM POM POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!

INB4 unnecesary drama

Im not saying its aliens.... but its aliens

Was so gutted I missed this.. so late for me

POM POM POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!

INB4 unnecesary drama

It's Megatron!

they can afford thousands and even millions for the vehicle but not 2k for a decent DSLR-quality camera ?

Not martians, just expanding our curiosity into space like we own the solar system in general. We are getting a bit too curious for our own good imo.

Whatever is to destroy us will happen without fail at some point.

All things end eventually, so if our end is when we get ''too curious for our own good'' then it was meant to be that way. Death is absolutely guaranteed, it's just a matter of when and how.

I'm assuming you're implying something like that, because I don't see how curiosity is a bad thing in this case otherwise. There isn't anything wrong with wanting to learn more about everything around us.

they can afford thousands and even millions for the vehicle but not 2k for a decent DSLR-quality camera ?

you gotta remember
they gotta keep the quality and file size of the pictures down, otherwise it'd be absolute hell to transmit them

And i have my doubts that a 2k camera will work on mars.

The thing that impressed me about the operation was the elaborate touchdown procedure. Going from parachute to jet propulsion to lowering the rover down via crane, keeping in mind the 7-minute transmission delay, just absolutely astounds me.

That's why the entire landing sequence had to be automated. That it all worked is the amazing part -- and a tribute to all those calculations and projections.