"Seven Minutes of Terror" is a success.

[freethought]

Curiosity Rover just touched down on Mars! Is this a great country or what?!

[Justice wanted]

1. THEY ARE GETTING THUMBNAILS

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. Nice to watch history with peanuts.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. They just showed the images of the wheels on the surface.

[freethought]

4. WOW! JUST WOW!

I hate to sound negative but I thought it might not work. Looks like I have egg on my face. But I am glad that I do!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. I know,...every time a step was made you're thinking "Okay,...now comes..."

It wasn't until touchdown when the room went totally nuts and all I was thinking is they didn't mention the tether release so I was picturing the whole rig getting picked up and tossed across the surface while everyone was hugging.

[freethought]

8. I personally thought

that disaster would strike when the rover and its "bridle" would be separated from the reentry vehicle. For instance the rockets would fail to fire and the whole thing would go crashing to the ground. OR that the sky crane maneuver would fail to work. Those steps just seemed to me to be the most nuts and where Murphy's Law would raise its head.


I was totally wrong on both counts. Everything went as planned.

Those at JPL have my salute!

Well, that's enough for me tonight. Good Night all!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. First images.

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http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/

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7. I can't stop smiling!

This is so cool, so amazing, reminds me of watching the early space mission launches when I was a kid!

[freethought]

9. When I was a teen

I was allowed to skip school to see the first launch of the Columbia space shuttle. Young and Crippen were the astronauts!