Sunday 5th August. Landing Day.

I get up to a beautiful day in California with humming birds feeding and clear views of the San Gabriel Mountains.

We will have a final MSL team briefing  tonight at 9 pm PDT.  Before that most of us will be having a quiet day.   

After 9 pm at JPL, there will be feeds passing on information from the spacecraft and the Odyssey orbiter.  We want to keep hearing the word  ‘nominal’ as the different stages of EDL are gone through by Curiosity. 

 

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This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards... I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions. You can also follow the planetary science activities with @LeicsPlanets Professor John Bridges, School of Physics and Astronomy

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