Mars rover Curiosity landing: Where to watch and what you’ll see [1]

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

By Emi Kolawole [2]

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 [3].

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.”

To read the rest of this story and see all the photos, visit WashingtonPost.com [4]