ScienceCasts: Mars Landing Sky Show

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On the same night Curiosity lands on Mars, a "Martian Triangle" will appear in sunset skies of Earth. The first-magnitude apparition on August 5th gives space fans something to do while they wait for news from the Red Planet.

[@njjeff201]

Good job NASA & JPL!!!!!

[@Happy2foundUUU]

These stars/planets are BRIGHTER, have no problem to view them in Philadelphia ! Cheers !

[@Aleidenberg]

The flight to Mars, the fiery entry to Mars 'airspace', the powered descent chute for a soft landing on all fours, the solar array has to open up,... Holy cow. Could this mission be any more complex?

[@jimingersoll7269]

Will definitely be on call for this one . . . .

[@rosmarinusofficialis]

I just saw a BBC Horizon programme: Mission to Mars and can't wait to hear of Curiosity's safe landing on the planet next week. It is even more exciting than usual as I visited JPL in May, saw a model of Curiosity and the control center at work et al.

[@KrodinBataak]

Best channel on KZbin.

[@BOOGY110011]

Best luck !!! i can't wait....

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

I will look out for this!

[@seekeroftruth06]

millions/billions spent on going to other planets ! and we still can't feed our own people !!

[@gavincurtis]

Godspeed to you Curiosity. So much positive effort to understand truth vs the unknown darkness. Land safely.

[@RobertBienenfeld]

Cool!, lot of smart people for NASA!

[@spokismyfriend]

cannot wait to see this air

[@1d2d3p]

A Mi entidad del mundo favorita la NASA les deseo todos los éxitos del mundo... gloria a-dios para que este nuevo intento sea totalmente exitoso. Como quisiera estar por lo menos en el centro de análisis de esa actividad.

[@antoninocortese]

Fantastico, meraviglioso

[@WasserKaiser]

This is a daring enterprise. I hope that everything goes well.

[@K.I.T]

yeah its a 1st amgnitude star so no problem seing it in the subrubs you can se mars saturn and spica every night

[@vincentpigeater2727]

well you can get a idea.... they used the same approach program they used on apollo. landing on moon. so go check one of those out and imagine it red :P

[@JohnnysTrainVideos]

I can't wait to watch it...

[@asjordan0yt]

My understanding is that the crane crashes to the surface as refuse.

[@paideguinha]

Spica is a binary star? I never knew that.

[@DementedCaver]

Soft landing please. ;)

[@onlyhalfbad333]

I can't wait to see what they discover :D

[@Neueregel]

yes.

[@vincentpigeater2727]

Two scientists who were briefed on the 2013 NASA budget that will be released next week said the space agency is eliminating two proposed joint missions with Europeans to explore Mars in 2016 and 2018. NASA had agreed to pay $1.4 billion for those missions. Some Mars missions will continue, but the fate of future flights is unclear, including the much-sought flight to return rocks from the red planet.

[@K.I.T]

you can see saturn and mars both from the suburbs

[@AustinTierney]

So what happens to the 'sky crane' after it drops the rover? In the video it just flys away, Does it land and the rover use that as a base or does it just go away and then float or crash to the surface?

[@Alessandro-B]

I live in London and I can see Mars n Saturn with naked eyes.

[@you2tooyou2too]

No matter what you think of our industrial food systems, a good portion of our increased agricultural capacity (several trillion dollars) over the past few decades, is due to the space technologies developed mostly thru NASA at the cost of a few hundred billion dollars (including many contractors and universities). The hunger in the world is mostly due to economic, political, & social interference with distribution.

[@mscir]

I thought the wrong video had been uploaded until a full 2 min's into the video when it finally dealt with the landing. Then it rushed through the subject entirely too quickly. How about you do a real video on this where you actually go into detail about specifications, sizes, weights, times, treating the public as if they are intelligent?

[@you2tooyou2too]

Will Curiosity (cameras) be able to see Earth in the sky?

[@wchufuchufu8071]

hallo

[@bwxmoto]

You think they would have learned with their failed helicopter catch... but nope, they have to make it almost impossible to succeed because of the ridiculous complexity. I don't have high hopes for this one. I hope it works though.

[@Yukisho]

Look's like my brithday on the 5th will be even more interesting.

[@jimingersoll7269]

News to me . . . .I didn’t know that Mars n Saturn even had eyes, never mind them being naked too. . .

[@Designandrew]

God I hope the landing works..

[@Alessandro-B]

Naked eyes meaning without binoculars or telescope. Or is it just a bad joke?

[@smwvikings99]

Hope not, we don't need to get into another war

[@mariuszny]

In reality this rover is full of gold just to bribe the Martians. That's why it is so big & heavy.

[@balbin23]

how come on fecesbook there is only Like button instead of Like and No Like option? look for example here on you tube we have option of plus, minus up or down ..Lack of No Like option on facebook is the result of hyper politicall correctnes ?? you can like, you can be neutral but you can not like ? what gives ?

[@vincentpigeater2727]

bummer WOULD TELL FOLKS AT nasa.... flat out... YOU DIDNT BUILD THAT.... SOMEONE ELSE BUILT THAT FOR YOU......

[@you2tooyou2too]

Too bad you cannot convince FB.

[@FabainLacapus]

The God particle is pure mass. Particles need it to exist. It's in all particles in the universe. Of course it's in Martian matter.

[@lustra182]

@Mscir The message of the video was adequately conveyed along with extra tibits. Maybe you should look elsewhere for a video that caters to your intellectual capacity; or lack of I should say ha.

[@JamesSmith123456789]

When this thing lands i'm going to smoke me a BIG FAT blunt!

[@trooperryan911]

Spica?

[@beardguy45]

can't wait to see martians.

[@vincentpigeater2727]

oBAMA ur MASTER SAID no HE HAS OTYHER THINGS TO SPEND UR MONEY ON. LIKE SOLAR PANELS

[@foconesto]

The guys voice made me stop watching this

[@synclavier123]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA