Mars rover Curiosity landing: Where to watch and what you’ll see

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The Washington Post
Posted at 12:49 PM ET, 08/03/2012

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The Mars rover Curiosity is scheduled to land in the early morning hours of Monday, Aug. 6.

If you’re wondering just how big a deal the Curiosity mission is, The Post’s Marc Kaufman captures the significance and drama of the anticipated landing.

First, the takeaway superlative for the landing: It “will be the most complex and hair-raising in planetary history.” And for the mission? It is, writes Kaufman, “the most ambitious, the most costly ($2.5 billion) and the most high-stakes mission ever to another planet.”

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hahaha...what a media

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hahaha...what a media distraction, don't expect to see anything of truth from these images...they will be completely filtered and doctored by NASA just as all moon images have been..c'mon wake up people, surely we still don't believe this media process is honest do we?

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 Heres one for you all at the

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 Heres one for you all at the washington post: Why don't you be the first so called NEWSpaper to FULLY REPORT THE TRUTH. In other words grow a pair and stop feeding us WE THE PEOPLE BS. We are collectively waking up and their is noithing your evil OWO corporate mind control bosses can do about it. Try being part of the solution as opposed to the traditional part of the problem.