Nasa will be monitoring the drama from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
The mission control in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory burst into cheers as the rover touched down Monday morning.
"No Earth impact is possible, " said asteroid expert Donald Yeomans at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Scientists monitoring the landing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including the President's Science Advisor, John Holdren, were elated.
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The exhibition will also feature a unique watch made for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which indicates the time on Mars.
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But keen viewers everywhere used several live streams of the event on the internet, including a feed from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Nasa.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's confirmed list of "VIP" guests included celebrities Alex Trebek, Chuck Lorre, Wil Wheaton, Nichelle Nichols, Bill Prady and June Lockhart.
As of April 19, 2013, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Planet Quest website reports 851 confirmed planets and 2781 candidates, totaling as many as 3, 632 exoplanets.
And the orbiters were developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"The message did not arrive at the device meant to deploy the chute, " said Gentry Lee, chief engineer of planetary systems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"You probably would not damage your bumper if you hit a car at this speed, " said landing-system engineer Devin Kipp at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who helped design the parachute.
Glenn Orton, a researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who has led the analysis of the merged storm, admits that Jupiter's weather is still only dimly understood.
"We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average, " Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said last week.
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"We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average, " said Paul Chodas, of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
Following the relatively recent release of data from the Wise telescope in April this year, the teams at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Nasa have a "treasure trove" of information to work with.
So John Anderson, one of the members of the Pioneer 10 navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says he feels a professional responsibility to make his sums add up.
The SeaWinds satellite, managed by NASA for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, carries a scatterometer instrument that has measured those sea winds via microwaves bounced off the ocean's surface since the satellite's launch in June.
Planetary scientists like Dr Robert Pappalardo at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have grown increasingly frustrated as proposals to explore the further reaches of the solar system have been sidelined in favour of Mars and the JWST.
"This is the first time any robot has drilled in any rock on Mars" or anywhere else beyond Earth, said Louise Jandura, chief engineer for Curiosity's sample system at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Baty also points to the fact that Cal Tech manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the federally funded NASA research and development center that has been in the news for its Mars Rover robotic space mission.
It's traditional to open up cans of peanuts and pass them around to the team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory responsible for overseeing the landing of the rover, said David Oh, lead flight director for the mission, earlier this week.
In February this year Mark Swain of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and his colleagues reported that they had developed a new technique for calibrating data arriving at ordinary ground-based telescopes, allowing them to identify the components of an extrasolar atmosphere.
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In fact, when mission managers in the control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory first get word early Monday that the craft has reached the top of the Mars atmosphere, the vehicle will have been safe or smashed on the surface for at least seven minutes.
Roger Linfield and his colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who are in charge of the mission, aim to show that spacecraft flying in formation can be controlled so precisely that the distance between them varies by only a tiny fraction of a wavelength of light.
The proposals are due April 1 of this year, and the Langley Research Center in partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and with Lockheed Martin, with the Draper Lab and Aurora Flight Sciences, is proposing a robotic airplane to fly over the surface of Mars, about a mile above the surface.
Based on the Phoenix lander, the craft is tasked with giving us a peek beneath the planet's surface, armed with tools that include a geodetic instrument from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will be used to calculate Mars' rotation axis, a seismic wave sensor and a subsurface heat probe, to measure the planet's internal temperature.
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The research was conducted by Nicola Scafetta, a scientist at Duke University and at the Active Cavity Radiometer Solar Irradiance Monitor Lab (ACRIM), which is associated with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
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After her stint with Aldebaran in Paris she went back to MIT to get a master's degree, then worked for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (which makes space probes), and Syyn Labs, a robotics art collective.
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Steady electronic "heartbeat" tones relayed from Curiosity across space to Earth indicated a successful landing to the control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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