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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Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/xbox-360-to-stream-mars-rover-landing-monday

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EmazedPosted:

Smurfs
Scanty
Cynder Wow nice I saw this earlier on xbox hope they give out some free stuff


You can get the free game they include. It requires a kinect though.


I didn't know about this. I'm gonna check it out.


It says it in the bottom of the news artical, if you didn't see it.

DakariBPosted:

Smurfs
Scanty
Cynder Wow nice I saw this earlier on xbox hope they give out some free stuff


You can get the free game they include. It requires a kinect though.


I didn't know about this. I'm gonna check it out.


you said i didnt know about this but it clearly states that there is a free game...must not pay attention when u read

SmurfsPosted:

Scanty
Cynder Wow nice I saw this earlier on xbox hope they give out some free stuff


You can get the free game they include. It requires a kinect though.


I didn't know about this. I'm gonna check it out.

FPS_RyanPosted:

Ill make sure to tune in on monday, this is going to be interesting.

StayPosted:

That looks pretty nice,Good for NASA :)

Activez-Posted:

GTX_690 This will be history... screw the game, this is amazing! One more step for humanity, we might just have two planets! (LOL! Imagine trying to connect to servers, in f***ing mars. LOL "One thousand years fifty seven days and 3 hours until video is loaded, please wait..." LOL


If anything, I'm sure they would make their own servers. But the thing is that they would not be able to connect to earth's servers so well.

GTX_690Posted:

This will be history... screw the game, this is amazing! One more step for humanity, we might just have two planets! (LOL! Imagine trying to connect to servers, in f***ing mars. LOL "One thousand years fifty seven days and 3 hours until video is loaded, please wait..." LOL

yayPosted:

Cynder Wow nice I saw this earlier on xbox hope they give out some free stuff


You can get the free game they include. It requires a kinect though.

CynderPosted:

Wow nice I saw this earlier on xbox hope they give out some free stuff

AAWPosted:

looks really really good


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