In about half an hour, a new Mars rover is going to land.

It's called Curiosity, and it's been hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour for about 8 months. Astrologists estimate that it will land at about 10:24 PM Pacific Standard Time (-8 Greenwich). The fruit of years of labour, technology, and millions (if not billions) of dollars.

It's main goal is to examine Sharpe Mountain in the Gale Crater as well as try to find scant traces of past life.
The problem? Oh, so many problems. For one thing, it takes about 7 minutes for the rover to go from the top of the atmosphere to the ground, and 14 minutes for the signals to go from the rover to Earth. This means that if it crashes, or one of the many other problems that could possibly happen happens, we won't even know for seven minutes.

If it succeeds to land, we can definitely expect the barrage of new information tat comes with new technology and exploration.

You can check out a live feed from NASA here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html

Feel free to post speculations and comments on this thread before or after the landing. Cross your fingers and hope it goes according to plan!

live feed, cool.
I'll probably forget, someone summon me when that starts airing, its not active yet.
I wonder what they'll find,probably something too complicated for me to understand.
Oh, the videos working now, no summon needed =p
wow, theyre going nuts in the control room
aw damn, thats it.
Ill need to check back when theyre actually showing footage, i just saw them pointing at a tv of the feed, it looked like the death star....

I kind of like that they are showing us live footage from the rover but like you said we will be seven minutes slow because of  how far away the rover is but it is still fascinating that we get to see mars but only from a crater oh well.