Mars Curiosity Landing Successful

[juan_de_diablo]

The Mars Curiosity vehicle has successfully landed and has initially broadcast some images.
What are your thoughts on the implications of this mission? Will we find evidence of life past or present?

Streaming coverage of the landing in about 3 hours from the time of this post.
Aug 5, 2012     10:31 p.m.   Pacific
Aug 6, 2012     1:31 a.m.   Eastern
Aug 6, 2012     5:31 a.m.   Universal

You can find the coverage here:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/

I sure hope those boffins at NASA pull it off!

Also, this is a cool tool:
http://eyes.nasa.gov/index.html

[AnonymousRevival]

I just love a good countdown. The rover, if i remember is built to extract carbon from Mars is it?

Currently inhabitable places are Mars, el Luna (our moon) and other moons like Titan and Enceladus because they are rich with water, energy and carbon.

[juan_de_diablo]

One of the most popular abilities of Curiousity is it's life-searching capabilities. It will be able to dig several cm into the dirt at a site on Mars considered to have the most potential to containing living organisms, or even complex organic compounds.

[AnonymousRevival]

True, but what mars needs now is a reheated core to create geothermal energy and a ferromagnetic field.

[juan_de_diablo]

Yes, it does. Especially if we're ever going to be able to terraform that POS 

[AnonymousRevival]

What I personally suggest is that we inhabit in the moon Enceladus. There's water, energy, carbon, spectacular water volcanoes, ice and rock, a perfect inhabitable place. But the problem is that it is in Saturn. Until antimatter is economically affordable and applicable, it is probably not likely we can travel there.

[juan_de_diablo]

To quote the movie "What About Bob?": "Baby Steps"

[juan_de_diablo]

Under 90 minutes til the landing happens. Live streaming has started: background of the mission, interviews, and updates from mission control.

[juan_de_diablo]

Sorry to double post, but Curiosity has landed and appears to be successful. NASA and JPL are broadcasting images!

[AnonymousRevival]

Did curiousity kill the cat yet?

[ARTHANASIOS]

Did curiousity kill the cat yet?

It depends... if the cat is Schrodinger's one, it is already dead... and alive!

[AnonymousRevival]

The cat needs to be in a box.