Watch Mars Rover Landing Live Streams Here: August 5, 2012

NASA's Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars August 5, 2012. You Can Watch the Historic Mars Landing Right Here.

Join us right here for live video coverage as the Mars Curiosity rover lands on the Red Planet. We have two live video streams from the NASA JPL headquarters, which will feature previews and updates surrounding Mars Curiosity rover before, during and after the Curiosity landing.  

The two main live broadcasts of the Mars Curiosity rover landing will take place 11:30pm Aug 5-2am August 6 ET/ 8:30pm-11:00pm August 5 PT, followed by coverage Curiosity's first images between 3:30am-4am ET/12:30am-1:00am PT on August 6th.

The Mars Landing Videos Will Include:

• The NASA TV Media Channel and NASAJPL2 Ustream will carry an uninterrupted, clean feed with mission audio. (The ultimate eyewitness video, from a lonely robot on the surface of Mars.)
  

• The NASA TV Public Channel and NASAJPL Ustream will carry a feed with commentary and interviews beginning at 8:30 p.m. PDT.

Videos

Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror

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You can hop over to ustream.tv/NASAJPL to see pre-landing coverage if you can't wait until the August 5th broadcast.

Below you can find both Mars landing live stream video players, as well as the Mars Curiosity Rover's Twitter feed and a schedule of coverage.

After flying for 8 1/2 months, the Mars Curiosity rover is ready for solid ground... provided it can survive Seven Minutes of Terror: see the video to the right to learn just how complicated the Mars landing procedure will be.

NASA JPL :

NASA JPL2:

The current schedule includes:

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. PT
NASA’s Next Mars Rover

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
9:30 to 11:30 a.m. PT
Mars Rover NASA Social

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. PT
NASA Previews Mars Landing

SUNDAY, AUGUST 5
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. PT
NASA Mars Rover Update

3 to 4 p.m. PT
NASA Previews Mars Landing

8:30 to approx. 11:15 p.m. PT
NASA Mars Rover Landing (This will also be broadcast on big screens in New York City's Times Square.)

No earlier than 2:15am to 3:15am Aug 6 ET/11:15pm Aug 5 to 12:15am Aug 6 PT
NASA Mars Rover News

MONDAY, AUGUST 6
12:30 to 1:30 a.m. PT
NASA Mars Rover Landing

9:00 to 10:00 a.m. PT
NASA Mars Rover News

4:00 to 5:00 p.m. PT
NASA Mars Rover News

TUESDAY, AUGUST 7 through FRIDAY AUGUST 10
10 to 11:00 a.m. PT
NASA Mars Rover News

You can join the global conversation during the landing via Ustream’s social stream or by tweeting @marsCuriosity. Try to keep Total Recall quotes to a minimum.

Photos

Mars Curiosity Rover: Get Your Ass to Mars on August 5, 2012

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