{"id":2405,"date":"2012-08-05T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2012-08-05T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:02:07","slug":"final-news-briefing-prior-to-mars-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2405","title":{"rendered":"Final News Briefing Prior to Mars Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final Mars Science Laboratory news briefing prior to the planned landing on Mars of the Curiosity rover, presented an update of the spacecraft&#8217;s current status and discussed what to expect after landing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/recorded\/24496015\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: 0px none transparent;\">    <\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/\" style=\"padding: 2px 0px 4px; width: 400px; background: #ffffff; display: block; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center;\" target=\"_blank\">Video streaming by Ustream<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We may not be successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the outcome is, we will all know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight&#8217;s it. The Superbowl of planetary exploration. One yard line, one play left. That play is about twelve hours from now. We score and win, or we don&#8217;t score and we don&#8217;t win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Doug McCuistion, Mars Exploration Program director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll be glued to the edge of our seats for the big event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The flight team is feeling good about the spacecraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The flight path is looking good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Brian Portock, MSL mission manager<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s kind of on her own now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mars is cooperating. The weather (on Mars) is pretty good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For tonight, the atmosphere (on Mars) looks perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Adam Steltzner, MSL entry, descent and landing phase lead<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Curiosity is scheduled to land at 1:31 a.m. Monday, Aug. 6 eastern time.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final Mars Science Laboratory news briefing prior to the planned landing on Mars of the Curiosity rover, presented an update of the spacecraft&#8217;s current status and discussed what to expect after landing. Video streaming by Ustream Highlights: &#8220;We may not be successful.&#8221; &#8220;What the outcome is, we will all know.&#8221; &#8220;Tonight&#8217;s it. The Superbowl &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Final News Briefing Prior to Mars Landing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}