New York's Times Square to broadcast Mars landing
 

New York's Times Square to broadcast Mars landing
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) July 31, 2012





The highly anticipated landing of NASA's sophisticated $2.5 billion rover on Mars will be broadcast on a large screen in New York City's Times Square, NASA said on Tuesday.

The touchdown of the Curiosity rover, equipped with a sophisticated roving toolkit for analyzing the terrain for signs that microbial life once existed, is scheduled for August 6 at 1:31 am Eastern time (0531 GMT).

A rocket-powered sky crane aims to lower the car-sized vehicle on to the surface of the red planet so it can embark on a two-year science mission.

Viewers will not be able to see real-time video of the landing -- no one will -- but the live images will show staff at mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California as they await the signal that the rover touched down.

The images will be on the Toshiba Vision screen, located just below the world-famous New Year's Eve ball in Times Square.

"In the city that never sleeps, the historic Times Square will be the place for New Yorkers to participate in this historic landing," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

"When you think of all the big news events in history, you think of Times Square, and I can think of no better venue to celebrate this news-making event on Mars."





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Best of luck from all in Oz!!!!

> Viewers will not be able to see real-time video of the landing -- no one will

That's a bit of an oversight isn't it?

" > Viewers will not be able to see real-time video of the landing -- no one will

That's a bit of an oversight isn't it? "




Shades of #NBCfail and the Olympics http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.png

Are they perhaps talking about the transmission delay caused by distance?

Technically that occurs even when you are watching your boy child kick you in the shins...

Hi molly....I have taken the liberty of moving your post in chat to here....
Hope that's OK.


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2-5pm, Monday 6 August, Mars landing party, Victorian Space Science Education Centre
NASA’s Curiosity rover will land on Mars on 6 August. To celebrate, the Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC) and Engineers Australia are throwing a party, complete with their own Mars rover and space researchers.
SPEAKERS: Marion Anderson, Monash University, Franceso Pignatale, Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing and Adrian Brown, SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center.
VENUE: Victorian Space Science Education Centre, Strathmore Secondary College, 400 Pascoe Vale Road, Strathmore, Victoria.
Bookings required.
If you can’t make it in person, the event will be streamed at: www.ustream.tv/channel/vssec.