[Chesterbelloc]

If you go to this NASA web site you can get a web app that lets you follow the progress of the Curiosity Rover:

http://eyes.nasa.gov/index.html

It has a live mode where you can see all the current stats (speed, distance, altitude) and also a preview mode where you can see what hopefully will happen later tonight.

Earth Occultation is supposed to occur roughly a minute and 59 seconds before touchdown. As best I can tell it looks like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will be close to right overhead. It’d be neat if it really is able to film the landing.

[Windcatcher]

Unfortunately, someone at NASA upgraded it to a newer rev of the Unity player, and it requires some kernel functions that aren’t in Windows 2000.

I’m using the extended Win2k kernel from http://www.msfn.org and it still can’t handle it.

[MestaMachine]

Thanks for the link. How cool is this???