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  â€˜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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