11-26-2011, 09:53 PM
ka jowct wrote:
Eights months of waiting to find out if it was all for naught…I'd hate to be on the Rover team during the landing process. I think I'd need Valium.
Think about the anticipation of the New Horizons team...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons
They launched the spacecraft on January 19, 2006...
It will fly by Pluto in a 10 minute window on July 14, 2015!
As of this December 2, it will take over from Voyager 2 as the closest spacecraft to Pluto... But then it will spend the next two and a half years getting even closer. But the REAL action will be that bare few minutes in the summer of 2015.
Curiosity is going to have a TERRIFIC mission! If it's HALF as successful as Spirit and Opportunity, we're going to know a LOT more about Mars in the near future!