Excellent, I finally get to start my own conspiracy theory. Okay, something doesn't add up with the Curiosity landing... How long does it take a radio transmission to reach the earth from Mars? just fractionally less than the speed of light ... so at this point in time (depending on Mars's current distance from Earth) it takes a little longer than 13.8 minutes (the speed of reflected light to get back to us). So during the live feed (see full video on you tube posted by Mark Liederbach), Curiosity's touchdown was confirmed at 36.29 into the video.. so what I am 'curious' about is how did approx 2mins 11.9 seconds later the images from the landed rover arrive considering it would take the radio signal 13.8 minutes to get back to earth from touchdown? They also would have needed time for the dust to settle.. hmm This was clearly not a 'live feed'. I would appreciate some insight into the propagation anomaly of the radio signal ..

Can you imagine if they found something living??? even if it was bacteria!!!

I would love to see an image of a fossil, like a centipede or something.

Well the reason they used the the lift system was to not introduce as much dust if say just the rockets were to land directly on the martian soil.
With the speed of the photos, I believe they said that curiosity was pre programmed to take pictures directly after it has landed and with odyssey overhead it relayed everything back before it went over the horizon.

Okay, when watching the live feed on the net, the delay was not apparent in the JPL control room? it obviously was not a live feed then - happening in real time? It certainly was not videoed, edited and then posted online as an event dramatisation. IT WAS THE LIVE FEED DIRECT FROM THE JPL CONTROL ROOM THAT HAD AN INCORRECT SIGNAL PROPAGATION DELAY FROM THE MOMENT OF LANDING UNTIL THE TIME THE FIRST IMAGES WERE RECEIVED. Tens of thousands of people viewed it in real time. Was that 'live feed' pieced together and aired after the event?

Ustream Curiosity got a question about the pictures.
Actually seemed to be a bit of a sensitive subject... Hmm.

first pic from rover

The Rover will send coded sounds (well chosen tones and signals) to tell what it sees and does.
If I understood correct this will be the main communication instead of pictures. For the next eight hours to come.

Beep = UFO
Bepbeep = Alien
Beepbeepbeep = Oh snap I am under attack!

Originally posted by PhoenixOD
Apparently its going to be a few days before we see the video of the landing , maybe a few weeks before the first high res picture and maybe a few months before they drive it anywhere to do some experiments.

Sounds about right from a skeptical point of view. Surely NASA must at least consider (if not KNOW) they might come across things that defy explanation/ So nothing like a little time delay to resolve that potential problem.

One other thing that's a bit off topic, I can't stand that this is an "American" thing. Are countries still pitting against one another and vying to be the first ones to do things? It's like a bunch of scientists in a drag race.

We're all in this together and once we take that attitude and approach then MAYBE, alien intelligence will welcome us more openly. Until then, we're on our own seeing we can't even play nicely among each other.

WhiteHouse rep will be attending to cover everything and overseeing the mission now in the beginning.
I guess that is the standard procedure?

I had a peek at the live link and there is someone looking at the camera.
?Who is this guy.

?Where are the videos and photos of Mars landscape.