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NASA's Mars rover is on its final approach for the Red Planet. But whether it lands - or crashes and burns - depends on what will be a blind, seven minutes of terror on Earth.

The seven minute landing is expected late in the evening of August 5 (Pacific Daylight Time or early in the morning on August 6 European Daylight Time).
But it will take twice that long (14 minutes) for signals from Curiosity to reach Earth. So by the time NASA gets word of the rover entering the Martian atmosphere, Curiosity will already have been on the surface for seven minutes - dead or alive.
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Ed ~ Landing at 05:31 UT, 6th August, 2012.



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Daring NASA Mars Mission Broadcast Lands In Times Square

The Toshiba Vision screen in New York City's Times Square will become the largest East Coast location for the public to see live mission coverage of Curiosity, NASA's most advanced planetary rover, as it lands on the Martian surface at 1:31 a.m. EDT August 6.
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William Shatner and Wil Wheaton Narrate New NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Video

As NASA prepares for next week's Curiosity rover landing on Mars, William Shatner and Wil Wheaton share this thrilling story of NASA's hardest planetary science mission to date. The video titled, "Grand Entrance," guides viewers from entry through descent, and after landing.
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Mars Curiosity rover success depends on 'crazy' landing

This mobile Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) should bring about a revolution in our understanding of the geological history of the planet...provided it can land safely.
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Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing

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Eight days before reaching Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft performed a flight-path adjustment scheduled more than nine months ago.
The trajectory correction maneuver completed late Saturday may be the last one the mission needs before landing day, though two further opportunities remain on its schedule in case they are needed.
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NASA-TV's Curiosity Landing Coverage Begins Aug. 5



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NASA Rover on Course for Mars Landing

With less than three weeks to the scheduled landing of the Curiosity rover on the Red Planet, leaders of Mars Science Laboratory team field questions form media about the mission, the most difficult ever undertaken in the history of interplanetary robotic exploration.



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As NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity prepares to land on Mars, public audiences worldwide can take their own readiness steps to share in the adventure. Landing is scheduled for about 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5 (5:31 UT on Aug. 6), at mission control inside NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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Nasa may miss Curiosity Mars rover's landing signal

Nasa might not be able to follow the progress of its big Mars rover all the way to the surface when it attempts to land on the planet on 6 August (GMT).
The Curiosity vehicle is aiming for a deep depression known as Gale Crater.
The US space agency will be tracking the descent with satellites, but its prime craft for the task may not now be in the correct place in the sky.
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NASA News Conference to Preview August Mars Rover Landing

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