BBC Horizon – Mission to Mars, Curiosity Rover

Watched a great BBC Horizon programme about the Mars Mission to land the Curiosity Rover on 6 August. It’s available on the iPlayer.

Martian sunset as seen from the previous Spirit Rover mission.

Curiosity lands at 06:31 on Monday 6 Aug (BST). What’s amazing is, that at that distance it takes 14 minutes to communicate with it, but the landing sequence, which includes a real sci-fi sky crane takes only 7 minutes. It has to be done autonomously.

I’m following @MarsCuriosity on Twitter.