Curiousity Rover's Mars Landing

[Richard]

This is the largest robotic explorer sent yet, so they had to figure out another way of getting it down. This is a computer animation of the landing that will be attempted next week.

NASA says it plans to land the rover sometime in the evening of Aug 5th?

You're right...I misread it. Still 73 million km to go

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

Richard