Thursday, November 24, 2011

Work continues being done on the Atlas V rocket, which carries the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft onboard, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on November 17, 2011.
NASA / Dimitri Gerondidakis

TWO DAYS TILL LAUNCH... Expect at least the next two journal entries to be about the Curiosity rover and its impending departure for Mars. The Atlas V rocket carrying the Red Planet-bound spacecraft will be rolled out to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida tomorrow, while the Big Event itself will take place at 7:02 AM, Pacific Standard Time on Saturday...weather permitting and all. Godspeed, Curiosity!

Oh—and Happy Turkey Day, everyone! (To all of my fellow Yanks, that is.)

A computer-generated concept of daybreak occurring on Mars.
NASA / JPL - Caltech

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