Posted on 09/21/2014 6:42:39 PM PDT by Dallas59
A NASA spacecraft built to study the atmosphere of Mars like never before will arrive at the Red Planet tonight (Sept. 21) and you can watch it live online.
After 10 months in deep-space, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is expected to enter orbit around Mars and begin a one-year mission studying the planet's upper atmosphere. The Mars arrival will cap a 442 million-mile (711 million kilometers) trek across the solar system.
You can watch the MAVEN spacecraft arrive at Mars on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV, in a live webcast that runs from 9:30 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. EDT (0130 to 0245 GMT). If all goes well, MAVEN will enter orbit around Mars at 9:50 p.m. EDT (0250 GMT), according to NASA officials.
"So far, so good with the performance of the spacecraft and payloads on the cruise to Mars," David Mitchell, NASA's MAVEN project manager at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. "The team, the flight system, and all ground assets are ready for Mars orbit insertion."
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I’m watching it with the NASA Eyes On the Solar system program. Showing rocket burn now.
Yup, that’s an awesome program.
I replayed the landing of the Curiosity rover a few weeks ago.
been there done that. We are totally broke spending our great grand children’s money if they aren’t speaking Chinese. Someone with a brain stop this madness
A school bus in Mars orbit... cool
Cede the high ground (space) to China!
LOL
They are taking your kids there for grades 3 - 6. The Martian schools are not integrated enough
I’m watching it with the NASA Eyes On the Solar system program. Showing rocket burn now.
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For Roku owners, the NASA App is carrying the feed. Looks like a good solid 1080p to me. Some of the audio is a bit below par. But still OK.
Worth watching.
Money is gone. China wins. and by the way — who cares about that godless rock. We have been there and done that. We need money now to survive as a nation. Mars , what a knee slapping belly laugh. Think about the futility.
And its cold as hell.
I completely agree.
America needs to reindustrialize.
Now.
Yep. When a country is broke as we are, it should only be doing essential research. Sending probes to Mars is no way essential research.
It's not foolish, like some other federal projects are. But neither is it essential.
are they inverting the colors to make it look more like earth or maybe it is earth? Mars is a read plant not a blue one.
read red
Are you kidding? What if we find OIL up there!
Congratulations... on both missions...
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