Xbox 360 to stream Mars rover landing Monday

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NASA is getting close to landing another automated rover on Mars. After a journey from Earth that took several months, the rover known as Curiosity is scheduled to make its landing on the red planet early on Monday morning (Eastern Time). Xbox 360 owners will be able to check out the action "live" (or 14 minutes after the landing, due to the time delay).

Major Nelson reports that Microsoft has set up a special Mars Rover section of the Xbox 360's dashboard for the event. Xbox Live users can check out more information about Curiosity's mission, which, if it lands successfully, will be searching for life on Mars for the next two years. The Mars Rover dashboard will also be the place for Xbox 360 owners to check out the streaming video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday morning as Curiosity makes its landing attempt.

Xbox 360 users can also download the free Mars Rover Landing game which lets people try their own luck in landing the Curiosity rover on Mars. The Kinect-supported game also includes Xbox Live achievements along with new Xbox Live avatar items to collect.


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GoldenDiamondsPosted:

Aced
GoldenDiamonds
Aced
pm9 Wow, thats actually pretty cool. alot of money gonna go into this.


It already happend, what do you mean alot of money?
I Watched it, didnt seem like it cost alot of money to stream it, this was a big achievement in usa History,


it costed millions to get it to mars and to make it but like $40 to stream it lol


Its free to stream it


No it wasn't, to he a dedicated server that can withstand millions of people watching would have costed money...

AcedPosted:

GoldenDiamonds
Aced
pm9 Wow, thats actually pretty cool. alot of money gonna go into this.


It already happend, what do you mean alot of money?
I Watched it, didnt seem like it cost alot of money to stream it, this was a big achievement in usa History,


it costed millions to get it to mars and to make it but like $40 to stream it lol


Its free to stream it

GoldenDiamondsPosted:

Aced
pm9 Wow, thats actually pretty cool. alot of money gonna go into this.


It already happend, what do you mean alot of money?
I Watched it, didnt seem like it cost alot of money to stream it, this was a big achievement in usa History,


it costed millions to get it to mars and to make it but like $40 to stream it lol

AcedPosted:

Zev
M60
GFX- I dident bother to watch it lol


It was boring anyway


It was really boring...


Well what do you except from nasa watching somthing your watching !?

AcedPosted:

pm9 Wow, thats actually pretty cool. alot of money gonna go into this.


It already happend, what do you mean alot of money?
I Watched it, didnt seem like it cost alot of money to stream it, this was a big achievement in usa History,

GoldenDiamondsPosted:

pm9 Wow, thats actually pretty cool. alot of money gonna go into this.


BILLIONS!

MeetPosted:

Wow, thats actually pretty cool. alot of money gonna go into this.

GoldenDiamondsPosted:

They I watched this for 30 minutes because I thought they would be showing the thing driving, but I just turned it off after a while.


im proud to say i watched all of it, boring...

GoldenDiamondsPosted:

-NewYork-
GoldenDiamonds
Zev
M60
GFX- I dident bother to watch it lol


It was boring anyway


It was really boring...


it was really really boring :'), sorry just had to say it :')


I just watched the last 10 mins :P


Haha, watch all of it :p

-NewYork-Posted:

GoldenDiamonds
Zev
M60
GFX- I dident bother to watch it lol


It was boring anyway


It was really boring...


it was really really boring :'), sorry just had to say it :')


I just watched the last 10 mins :P


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