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Astronomy Cast

Live coverage of the Curiosity Landing on August 5th, 2012

Astronomy Cast

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2012

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, Fraser here. I know that astronomy cast is on hiatus right now, but we're still

0:05.7

working on lots of really interesting things. And one of the biggest things we're doing

0:10.0

is we're going to be doing a live Google plus hangout to celebrate the landing of NASA's

0:15.6

Mars Science Laboratory, aka Curiosity. So we're going to be starting on Sunday, August

0:21.4

5th at 8 p.m. Pacific time. We're going to be doing four hours of live coverage with

0:27.0

me, Philplay, Pamela Gay. We're going to have two reporters live on location at JPL.

0:34.6

We're going to be giving you live footage of the actual landing itself. We're going to

0:39.0

be interviewing scientists. We're going to have other special guests joining the hangout.

0:43.8

It should be a lot of fun. So once again, you can join us on Sunday, August 5th at 8 p.m.

0:51.0

Pacific Daylight time. I believe that's 11 Eastern time and three in the morning universal

0:57.4

time, GMT. So now if you want to go find the event, you can go to, there's going to be

1:03.8

a bunch of places it's going to go. The first thing you're going to want to do is actually

1:07.2

put the event into your calendar. And you can do that by just going to Google plus, searching

1:11.5

on events for Curiosity landing. The other thing you can do is we'll be broadcasting live

1:17.1

on youtube.com slash universe today. And that's where you'll be able to watch the video live.

1:23.4

So hope to see you guys all there. We're going to have a lot of fun and we'll be taking questions,

1:28.1

showing pictures. We'll see you all on Sunday.

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