Curiosity Mars Rover 100 days to touchdown

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Submission + - Curiosity Mars Rover 100 days to touchdown (nasa.gov)

Submitted by arcite on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @09:19AM

arcite writes: The NASA Curiosity Mars Rover has begun its 100 day countdown to landing on Mars. Lets all wish everyone at JPL good luck with final engineering tests in preparation for the one ton Mini Cooper-sized rover Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (early on Aug. 6, Universal Time and EDT) touchdown!

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