Curiosity is the latest NASA rover to visit the Red Planet. It’s on final approach this week and scheduled to drop in after midnight Saturday Texas time. The JPL folks will be biting their nails during the seven-minute, automatic descent to touchdown (watch the dramatic explanatory video at the link).
(The WordPress dashboard is refusing to let me try to finesse a correction above. So I have to do it obviously. Curiosity is scheduled to drop in after midnight Sunday Texas time. Sorry about the mistake.)
It will be twice that long before the first radio signal confirmation that all is well (or not) returns to California. More here on the Mars Science Laboratory called Curiosity. Click on the pix to enlarge it for reading without a magnifying glass.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Already on my calendar.
Me, too. Don’t miss the video at the link. Nicely done. I hope the night-of lives up to it.